QNX and NVIDIA Deepen Collaboration to Advance Safety-Critical Edge AI Across Robotics, Medical, and Industrial Systems

QNX OS for Safety 8.0 and NVIDIA IGX Thor deliver a unified platform for real‑time control, functional safety, and AI at the industrial edge HANNOVER, DE / ACCESS Newswire / April 20, 2026 / At Hannover Messe, QNX, a division of BlackBerry Limited (NYSE:BB)(TSX:BB) today announced an expansion of its collaboration with NVIDIA to enable developers to build and deploy next‑generation, safety‑critical edge AI systems on NVIDIA IGX Thor. The expanded relationship sees QNX® OS for Safety 8.0 integrated with NVIDIA IGX Thor and Halos Safety Stack, combining QNX's proven, deterministic real‑time operating system with NVIDIA's functional safety platform to support regulated, AI‑enabled systems across robotics, medical technologies, industrial applications and more.