Jacob Pollard
Senior Software Engineer | VividCloud
Jacob Pollard is a Senior Software Engineer at VividCloud with a background in applied physics and deep expertise in robotics, simulation, and AI-driven systems. He specializes in building end-to-end, cloud-connected robotics platforms that integrate ROS 2, NVIDIA Isaac Sim, and modern cloud services. Jacob has led the development of high-fidelity simulation environments that enable complex autonomous behaviors to be designed, tested, and validated entirely in simulation. He also develops intelligent, agent-based AI solutions and full-stack applications that connect simulation, cloud infrastructure, and user interfaces, helping teams scale robotics development from prototype to production.
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May 28, 2026
Building a Cloud‑Connected Physical AI Loop with NVIDIA Isaac Sim and AWS
This live engineering demo showcases a reusable Physical AI reference architecture connecting NVIDIA Isaac Sim, ROS 2, and AWS cloud and edge services. Attendees will see a simulated robot navigate a maze on a GPU enabled EC2 instance, with real time telemetry streamed via AWS IoT Greengrass and visualized in a browser based kiosk. A conversational AI interface translates natural language commands into robot motion using Amazon Bedrock. Simulation data is persisted to S3 for replay, analytics, and ML workflows, demonstrating how teams can scale from simulation to cloud connected autonomy.
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