Archer Aviation to Build Next Wave of Aviation AI Technology with NVIDIA IGX Thor

Archer has announced plans to devel­op and deploy the next gen­er­a­tion of arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence tech­nolo­gies for avi­a­tion using the NVIDIA IGX Thor plat­form. 

Announced at CES 2026 in Las Vegas yes­ter­day (Thurs­day), Archer plans to debut its NVIDIA inte­gra­tion at its recent­ly acquired Hawthorne air­port in cen­tral Los Ange­les, which is expect­ed to be its oper­a­tional hub for its planned LA air taxi net­work and a test bed for its AI-pow­ered avi­a­tion tech­nolo­gies.

The com­pa­nies have been work­ing togeth­er since ear­ly 2025, with Archer plan­ning to inte­grate NVIDIA IGX Thor, the company’s most pow­er­ful safe­ty-capa­ble AI com­put­ing mod­ule, into future iter­a­tions of its air­craft pro­grams.

Adam Gold­stein, Founder and CEO of Archer, said: “CES has always been a launch­pad for tech­nolo­gies that reshape indus­tries, so we’re proud to announce our AI col­lab­o­ra­tion with NVIDIA here. NVIDIA’s AI com­pute capa­bil­i­ties and soft­ware stack give us the foun­da­tion to accel­er­ate toward safer, smarter air­craft sys­tems and mod­ern­ize how avi­a­tion inter­faces with the world’s air­space.”

The avi­a­tion space is a high-impact domain for Phys­i­cal AI, par­tic­u­lar­ly to advance crit­i­cal capa­bil­i­ties in air­craft safe­ty, air­space inte­gra­tion and auton­o­my-ready sys­tems. 

Archer aims to pow­er the next wave of AI tech­nol­o­gy in avi­a­tion, with a focus on three core areas:

• Enhanc­ing Pilot Safe­ty & Pre­dic­tive Aware­ness: Lever­ag­ing NVIDIA’s high-through­put edge com­put­ing to sense the envi­ron­ment, while pro­cess­ing flight-path data in real-time, giv­ing pilots ear­li­er, clear­er and more action­able insight
• Seam­less Air­space Inte­gra­tion: Devel­op­ing AI sys­tems that help bring cur­rent air­space man­age­ment sys­tems into the 21st cen­tu­ry, allow­ing air­craft to safe­ly inte­grate into today’s com­plex air­space, includ­ing improved rout­ing log­ic and dynam­ic traf­fic-aware flight plan­ning
• Auton­o­my-Ready Flight Con­trols: Pair­ing NVIDIA IGX Thor with Archer’s pro­pri­etary avion­ics and con­trol soft­ware to build a next-gen com­put­ing archi­tec­ture capa­ble of sup­port­ing future autonomous and semi-autonomous oper­a­tions

NVIDIA IGX Thor is built to enable high-reli­a­bil­i­ty, real-time onboard com­put­ing for safe­ty-crit­i­cal envi­ron­ments, sup­port­ing advanced per­cep­tion, deci­sion-mak­ing and pre­dic­tive oper­a­tions.

Ini­tial inte­gra­tion of NVIDIA IGX Thor into Archer’s devel­op­ment pipeline is already well under­way, with broad­er appli­ca­tions expect­ed across man­u­fac­tur­ing, air­craft fleet oper­a­tions and pilot train­ing. The col­lab­o­ra­tion builds on Archer’s expand­ing ecosys­tem of AI-focused part­ner­ships.