Jensen Huang praises OpenClaw for robotics, calls for agent controls via OpenShell
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, speaking at a "Build a Claw" event in London, called OpenClaw "one of the most important models" ever seen and said AI has reached an inflection point where it "has become useful," with agents used for coding, marketing, research assistance and drug discovery. He described OpenClaw as the "first credible" agentic harness, likening it to an exoskeleton for large language models, and said it could bring benefits to robotics, pointing to a robot from Nvidia partner Humanoid. Huang also stressed controls, saying Nvidia created an isolation layer called OpenShell and advocating zero trust, minimum privileges and continuous monitoring, with escalation if an autonomous system exceeds its privileges.
As Nvidia's CEO, Huang pairs optimism about agents and robotics with a concrete deployment recipe — isolation containers, least privilege and continuous monitoring — framing agent safety as an engineering requirement.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has laid out his vision of how OpenClaw will help shape the future of technology - with a particular focus on robotics.
Speaking at a “Build a claw” event in London, Huang explained how OpenClaw and AI agents as a whole can spur on incredible advancements in a range of fields.
However it was the field of humanoid robotics that seemed to catch his fancy, with Huang outlining the need for proper controls to ensure the potential of the technology can be reached.
AI is "becoming useful"
Huang opened by noting how OpenClaw was “one of the most important models” ever seen, helping to further progress across multiple industries.
“We’ve now seen an inflection in artificial intelligence - it’s become useful,” he declared. “The type of things people are doing with it, as simple as software coding, being a marketing agent assistant, research assistant, lab assistant, helping scientists do drug discovery and engineers run experiments - we’ve got agents everywhere.”