# Lightwheel

> Lightwheel is a Physical AI infrastructure company building the data layer that teaches robots to work in the real world. It produces physically accurate SimReady 3D assets, egocentric human demonstration data, and evaluation platforms so robots can learn safely and cheaply in simulation before they are deployed. Founded in 2023 by former autonomous-driving-simulation lead Steve Xie, Lightwheel partners with NVIDIA and supplies simulation assets and synthetic datasets to leading robotics teams.

- **Founded:** 2023
- **Headquarters:** Santa Clara, California, United States
- **Founders:** Steve Xie (Founder & CEO)
- **Team size:** ~40 employees
- **Products:** SimReady Library, EgoSuite, RoboFinals, Lightwheel-Platform Enterprise
- **Notable:** Featured in an official NVIDIA case study for accelerating embodied AI with foundation models, Reported ~$100M in Q1 2026 orders for physical AI infrastructure, Published 2,000+ robotics assets discoverable via NVIDIA USD Search (announced around CoRL)

## Products & services

- **SimReady Library** — A library of physically accurate, highly generalizable 3D assets and scenes for simulation-based robot training, compatible with NVIDIA Isaac Sim and OpenUSD.
- **EgoSuite** — A globally scalable platform for collecting egocentric human demonstration data used to train robotic manipulation and behavior policies.
- **RoboFinals** — An industrial-grade simulation evaluation platform for benchmarking vision-language-action models and world models.
- **Lightwheel-Platform Enterprise** — A unified stack integrating simulation, data generation, and evaluation for end-to-end Physical AI development.

## Achievements

- Featured in an official NVIDIA case study for accelerating embodied AI with foundation models
- Reported ~$100M in Q1 2026 orders for physical AI infrastructure
- Published 2,000+ robotics assets discoverable via NVIDIA USD Search (announced around CoRL)
- Helped deploy a synthetic-data-trained policy on physical Unitree H1 robots in a live Geely plant

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Closed a reported ~$137.5M Series A round backed by state and industry investors.
- **2026-05** — Reported roughly $100M in Q1 orders for physical AI infrastructure.
- **2026-01** — Deepened NVIDIA collaboration on the Newton physics engine and SimReady/Isaac integration.

## Links

- Website: https://lightwheel.ai
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/lightwheel2023
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/LightwheelAI
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZg477Dic7k

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Last updated: 2026-07-11