BlackBerry: QNX Powers NVIDIA Robot Safety Layer

BlackBerry $BB landed direct mention inside NVIDIA's latest earnings deck through its QNX real-time OS now running the safety stack beneath NVIDIA IGX Thor in Agility Robotics' Digit humanoid. The April 2026 partnership expansion moves QNX OS safety certification from automotive to humanoid robots, leveraging the same architecture trusted in 275 million vehicles worldwide and backed by a $950 million royalty backlog. Investors tracking BlackBerry QNX NVIDIA robotics partnership history note government, defense and medical-robot contracts already in place as the company shifts focus from near-term earnings to long-term physical-AI deployment scale.