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$NVDA announced Isaac GR00T which is its first open humanoid robot reference design for robotics research. The nearly 6-foot humanoid runs on Unitree hardware, Sharpa hands, Jetson Thor compute and Nvidia Isaac software.

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NVIDIA announces the first open humanoid robot reference design built for robotics research. The NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot combines the Unitree H2 humanoid robot, Sharpa Wave five-fingered hands for dexterous manipulation, Jetson Thor onboard compute, and Isaac GR00T open software and models, giving researchers a full-stack platform from data capture to model deployment. Read the #NVIDIAGTC Taipei announcement:

NVIDIA announces the first open humanoid robot reference design built for robotics research. The NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot combines the Unitree H2 humanoid robot, Sharpa Wave five-fingered hands for dexterous manipulation, Jetson Thor onboard compute, and Isaac GR00T open software and models, giving researchers a full-stack platform from data capture to model deployment. Read the #NVIDIAGTC Taipei announcement:

NVIDIA Robotics

173,589 views • 3 months ago

🚨 BREAKING: NVIDIA just announced the Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot. The first fully open humanoid robot reference design built on Jetson Thor, and it's going straight to the world's top research institutions. This is Jensen Huang's bet on open physical AI infrastructure. The hardware stack is serious: → Unitree H2 Plus chassis, 6 feet tall, 150 pounds, 31 degrees of freedom → Sharpa Wave tactile five-finger hands, 22 degrees of freedom, bringing total to 75 across the full body → NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor onboard compute, 2,070 FP4 teraflops of AI performance, 128GB unified memory → Multi-view sensing, stereo head camera, wrist cameras, IMU Alongside this announcement, Unitree also introduced the H2 Plus as a standalone product, a frontier humanoid combining Unitree's own body, Sharpa's five-finger hands and NVIDIA Robotics Jetson Thor compute into one fully integrated research platform. The full Isaac GR00T software stack ships with it, teleoperation for data capture, open foundation models, Isaac Sim for training, Isaac Lab for evaluation, and accelerated ROS middleware for deployment. The complete loop from data to real-world robot in one unified platform. ETH Zürich, Stanford Robotics Center, UC San Diego and Ai2 are already on board as launch research partners. NVIDIA Robotics did to AI what it's now doing to robotics, build the platform, open the ecosystem, let the world build on top of it. Whoever owns the infrastructure layer wins. NVIDIA knows this better than anyone. 👀 Read more here: ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →

🚨 BREAKING: NVIDIA just announced the Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot. The first fully open humanoid robot reference design built on Jetson Thor, and it's going straight to the world's top research institutions. This is Jensen Huang's bet on open physical AI infrastructure. The hardware stack is serious: → Unitree H2 Plus chassis, 6 feet tall, 150 pounds, 31 degrees of freedom → Sharpa Wave tactile five-finger hands, 22 degrees of freedom, bringing total to 75 across the full body → NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor onboard compute, 2,070 FP4 teraflops of AI performance, 128GB unified memory → Multi-view sensing, stereo head camera, wrist cameras, IMU Alongside this announcement, Unitree also introduced the H2 Plus as a standalone product, a frontier humanoid combining Unitree's own body, Sharpa's five-finger hands and NVIDIA Robotics Jetson Thor compute into one fully integrated research platform. The full Isaac GR00T software stack ships with it, teleoperation for data capture, open foundation models, Isaac Sim for training, Isaac Lab for evaluation, and accelerated ROS middleware for deployment. The complete loop from data to real-world robot in one unified platform. ETH Zürich, Stanford Robotics Center, UC San Diego and Ai2 are already on board as launch research partners. NVIDIA Robotics did to AI what it's now doing to robotics, build the platform, open the ecosystem, let the world build on top of it. Whoever owns the infrastructure layer wins. NVIDIA knows this better than anyone. 👀 Read more here: ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →

Lukas Ziegler

16,062 views • 3 months ago

From simulation to reality 🤖 Robotics creator Skyentific built a walking bipedal robot using a simulation-first approach to design, test, and iterating in virtual environments before deploying in the real world. Powered by the NVIDIA Isaac platform and NVIDIA Jetson for on-device AI and control. 📖 #NationalRoboticsWeek

From simulation to reality 🤖 Robotics creator Skyentific built a walking bipedal robot using a simulation-first approach to design, test, and iterating in virtual environments before deploying in the real world. Powered by the NVIDIA Isaac platform and NVIDIA Jetson for on-device AI and control. 📖 #NationalRoboticsWeek

NVIDIA Robotics

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The future of robotics is something you have to experience hands-on. 🤲 Join us at #SIGGRAPH2026 for our physical AI labs covering NVIDIA Cosmos, robot learning with Isaac Lab and Newton, and more. Check the comments for the full lineup. ⬇️

The future of robotics is something you have to experience hands-on. 🤲 Join us at #SIGGRAPH2026 for our physical AI labs covering NVIDIA Cosmos, robot learning with Isaac Lab and Newton, and more. Check the comments for the full lineup. ⬇️

NVIDIA Robotics

20,295 views • 2 months ago

Building robots that can effectively operate alongside human workers is difficult. 🛠️ Advances in open-source physics, open foundation models, and frameworks are helping accelerate physical #AI deployment. ✔️ Newton Physics Engine, an open-source GPU-powered simulation built on OpenUSD, speeds up robot learning for advanced manipulation and mobility. ✔️ NVIDIA Cosmos Reason, an open reasoning vision language model, gives robots the ability to think like humans using prior knowledge, common sense and physics ✔️NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1.6, an open robot foundation model, enables humanoids to understand ambiguous instructions Leading robotics developers including Agility Robotics, Lightwheel, Mentee Robotics, UniversalRobots, and Wandelbots are adopting simulation technologies and libraries to accelerate physical AI development and deployment. Omniverse Ambassador Dylan Tobin built an AI chatbot trained on Isaac Sim workflows, helping devs navigate Omniverse faster. Read the full blog 👉

Building robots that can effectively operate alongside human workers is difficult. 🛠️ Advances in open-source physics, open foundation models, and frameworks are helping accelerate physical #AI deployment. ✔️ Newton Physics Engine, an open-source GPU-powered simulation built on OpenUSD, speeds up robot learning for advanced manipulation and mobility. ✔️ NVIDIA Cosmos Reason, an open reasoning vision language model, gives robots the ability to think like humans using prior knowledge, common sense and physics ✔️NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1.6, an open robot foundation model, enables humanoids to understand ambiguous instructions Leading robotics developers including Agility Robotics, Lightwheel, Mentee Robotics, UniversalRobots, and Wandelbots are adopting simulation technologies and libraries to accelerate physical AI development and deployment. Omniverse Ambassador Dylan Tobin built an AI chatbot trained on Isaac Sim workflows, helping devs navigate Omniverse faster. Read the full blog 👉

NVIDIA

48,500 views • 11 months ago

🚨BREAKING Unitree's IPO application on the Science and Technology Innovation Board has been formally accepted by the Shanghai Stock Exchange, with a planned fundraising of 4.202 billion yuan. Of this, the intelligent robot model R&D project accounts for the majority, amounting to 2 billion yuan. In other words: For Unitree, hardware is no longer the problem,the real bottleneck that urgently needs to be overcome is the development of intelligent robot models. Notably, Unitree reports that it has sold over 5,500 humanoid robots,ranking first globally,making them the growth engine of its robotics business.

🚨BREAKING Unitree's IPO application on the Science and Technology Innovation Board has been formally accepted by the Shanghai Stock Exchange, with a planned fundraising of 4.202 billion yuan. Of this, the intelligent robot model R&D project accounts for the majority, amounting to 2 billion yuan. In other words: For Unitree, hardware is no longer the problem,the real bottleneck that urgently needs to be overcome is the development of intelligent robot models. Notably, Unitree reports that it has sold over 5,500 humanoid robots,ranking first globally,making them the growth engine of its robotics business.

CyberRobo

97,655 views • 5 months ago

Chinese consumer electronics maker Honor will unveil its first humanoid robot on March 1 at MWC 2026 in Barcelona. The robot is designed for retail & home service. The company sold a whopping 71 million smartphones in 2025. Looks like a customized Unitree G1 with a 2DoF neck.

Chinese consumer electronics maker Honor will unveil its first humanoid robot on March 1 at MWC 2026 in Barcelona. The robot is designed for retail & home service. The company sold a whopping 71 million smartphones in 2025. Looks like a customized Unitree G1 with a 2DoF neck.

The Humanoid Hub

58,290 views • 6 months ago

Check out the new interactive humanoid robot, Yogi, introduced by Cartwheel Robotics. Yogi is designed as a companion for everyday life, offering help and companionship in settings from hospitals to living rooms. It features soft silicone skin for safe touch, precision actuators for predictable movement, and simple, natural interaction. The robot continuously learns new abilities for greater utility. Cartwheel's founder, Scott LaValley, has a deep background, having developed over four humanoid systems. His expertise includes nearly a decade developing the Atlas robot at Boston Dynamics, followed by five years at Disney leading the team that created the Groot robot. This extensive, hands-on experience is key to Cartwheel Robotics' innovations.

Check out the new interactive humanoid robot, Yogi, introduced by Cartwheel Robotics. Yogi is designed as a companion for everyday life, offering help and companionship in settings from hospitals to living rooms. It features soft silicone skin for safe touch, precision actuators for predictable movement, and simple, natural interaction. The robot continuously learns new abilities for greater utility. Cartwheel's founder, Scott LaValley, has a deep background, having developed over four humanoid systems. His expertise includes nearly a decade developing the Atlas robot at Boston Dynamics, followed by five years at Disney leading the team that created the Groot robot. This extensive, hands-on experience is key to Cartwheel Robotics' innovations.

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15,243 views • 11 months ago

🤖 NVIDIA’s Gr00t N1.5 is now available in LeRobot! This is the result of a great collaboration between the Hugging Face LeRobot team and NVIDIA Robotics ! Gr00t N1.5 highlights: 🦾 Cross-embodiment foundation model for robots 🧠 Multimodal inputs: vision, language, and proprioception 🪛Tested on the Libero benchmark and real-world hardware tasks 🌍Trained on real robot, synthetic, and internet-scale video data ⚙️ Flow matching action transformer for action prediction

🤖 NVIDIA’s Gr00t N1.5 is now available in LeRobot! This is the result of a great collaboration between the Hugging Face LeRobot team and NVIDIA Robotics ! Gr00t N1.5 highlights: 🦾 Cross-embodiment foundation model for robots 🧠 Multimodal inputs: vision, language, and proprioception 🪛Tested on the Libero benchmark and real-world hardware tasks 🌍Trained on real robot, synthetic, and internet-scale video data ⚙️ Flow matching action transformer for action prediction

LeRobot

115,194 views • 10 months ago

The laws of physics apply everywhere. ⚛️ Co-developed by NVIDIA, Google DeepMind and Disney Research, Walt Disney Imagineering, the new Newton Beta, managed by the The Linux Foundation, now also runs with Isaac Lab and with MuJoCo Warp, which delivers warp speed for robot learning. Learn how to train a quadruped and simulate multiphysics in our tech blog. 🔗 #CoRL2025

The laws of physics apply everywhere. ⚛️ Co-developed by NVIDIA, Google DeepMind and Disney Research, Walt Disney Imagineering, the new Newton Beta, managed by the The Linux Foundation, now also runs with Isaac Lab and with MuJoCo Warp, which delivers warp speed for robot learning. Learn how to train a quadruped and simulate multiphysics in our tech blog. 🔗 #CoRL2025

NVIDIA Robotics

83,151 views • 11 months ago

Meet Seeed at #GTC2026 in Day1! We're live with: ▶️ #reBot B601 Arm: Watch it doing real-time teleoperation + NVIDIA Robotics Isaac Sim visualization. ▶️ #Openclaw+#JetsonThor→Robot Control: Jetson Thor running local #LLMs to control a robot with natural language. ▶️ #ReachyMini: powered by the #reComputer J4012 with #JetsonOrinNX, reading your vibe with on-device vision & AI. Touch, test, and talk tech with us! 📍San Jose, California, USA 📅 March 16th–19th 🏛️ San Jose Convention Centee, Booth 156 #theAIHardwarePartner

Meet Seeed at #GTC2026 in Day1! We're live with: ▶️ #reBot B601 Arm: Watch it doing real-time teleoperation + NVIDIA Robotics Isaac Sim visualization. ▶️ #Openclaw+#JetsonThor→Robot Control: Jetson Thor running local #LLMs to control a robot with natural language. ▶️ #ReachyMini: powered by the #reComputer J4012 with #JetsonOrinNX, reading your vibe with on-device vision & AI. Touch, test, and talk tech with us! 📍San Jose, California, USA 📅 March 16th–19th 🏛️ San Jose Convention Centee, Booth 156 #theAIHardwarePartner

Seeed Studio

13,954 views • 5 months ago

Korean robotics leader ROBOTIS has unveiled the 'AI Sapiens' humanoid, a direct challenge to Unitree’s G1 and R1 models. - 4'3" (130 cm) tall and weighing 34 kg. - Features 23 DOF, powered by the brand-new Dynamixel-Q actuators. The robot is a fully open-source hardware system designed to serve as a reliable hardware platform for advanced Physical AI research. AI Sapiens is slated for an H1 2026 launch, with a price point expected in the mid-to-low 10 million KRW range (~$7,000 – $8,700 USD).

The Humanoid Hub

95,879 views • 4 months ago

Mondo is the most adorable companion robot. It’s safe around kids, can track and follow a person, and capture high-resolution action videos. Mondo is also doing frontier research in humanoid Video-Action models built on a world model backbone: I have no doubt we’ll be hearing this name a lot in consumer robotics. Thanks Mondo Robotics Shuo Yang for the tour.

Mondo is the most adorable companion robot. It’s safe around kids, can track and follow a person, and capture high-resolution action videos. Mondo is also doing frontier research in humanoid Video-Action models built on a world model backbone: I have no doubt we’ll be hearing this name a lot in consumer robotics. Thanks Mondo Robotics Shuo Yang for the tour.

The Humanoid Hub

27,765 views • 2 months ago

every "open-source humanoid" i click on turns out to be a robot that stands still for one demo and can't be reproduced. roboto_origin runs and jumps, and every part is actually sourceable. structure, electronics, training code, all public. you can build this one, not just watch its video.

every "open-source humanoid" i click on turns out to be a robot that stands still for one demo and can't be reproduced. roboto_origin runs and jumps, and every part is actually sourceable. structure, electronics, training code, all public. you can build this one, not just watch its video.

Oliver Prompts

12,075 views • 27 days ago

There are currently 61 humanoid companies spanning 13 countries with a total of 88 humanoids Spent my free time creating an extensive display of humanoid companies to learn the current landscape Opinions: - Super saturated, every developed country fund and build humanoid robots, even developing countries like Vietnam has their own humanoid. - Software is the moat. Breakthrough in software will explode adaptation of robots in both consumer and industry. Observation: - Naming: Robots tends to be named in the following formula: Name + Generation (i.e. MagicBot Gen 1, Vanar Gen 1) or Name + Random Letter + Number (i.e. Jaka K1, Kinisi 01, Unitree G1). - Two diversion in use case: One side focus on utility (Figure, X1, etc.), the other focus on companionship (Enchanted Tools, Andromeda, etc.) Category imo: - Unique Design: Fourier, Enchanted Tools, Slightly Overdone Robotics, Pollen Robotics. - Unique Actuator: Clone Robotics - Best Capabilities: too soon to tell, too much online cherry picked demos instead of real life demonstration. - Most Natural Motion: Cartwheel Robotics, Pollen Robotics. - Highest Cost: Tesla. Hmu or comment below if you want the list.

There are currently 61 humanoid companies spanning 13 countries with a total of 88 humanoids Spent my free time creating an extensive display of humanoid companies to learn the current landscape Opinions: - Super saturated, every developed country fund and build humanoid robots, even developing countries like Vietnam has their own humanoid. - Software is the moat. Breakthrough in software will explode adaptation of robots in both consumer and industry. Observation: - Naming: Robots tends to be named in the following formula: Name + Generation (i.e. MagicBot Gen 1, Vanar Gen 1) or Name + Random Letter + Number (i.e. Jaka K1, Kinisi 01, Unitree G1). - Two diversion in use case: One side focus on utility (Figure, X1, etc.), the other focus on companionship (Enchanted Tools, Andromeda, etc.) Category imo: - Unique Design: Fourier, Enchanted Tools, Slightly Overdone Robotics, Pollen Robotics. - Unique Actuator: Clone Robotics - Best Capabilities: too soon to tell, too much online cherry picked demos instead of real life demonstration. - Most Natural Motion: Cartwheel Robotics, Pollen Robotics. - Highest Cost: Tesla. Hmu or comment below if you want the list.

Binh Pham

65,669 views • 11 months ago

NVIDIA DROPPED A MOTION DIFFUSION MODEL FOR HUMANOID ROBOTS trained on 700 hours of mocap data kimodo generates high-quality 3D human and robot motions from text prompts you control it with: → full-body pose keyframes → end-effector positions/rotations → 2D paths and waypoints works on human skeletons and unitree G1 robot plug the outputs directly into mujoco or retarget to other robots using GMR has a web-based interactive demo with a timeline editor. runs locally needs ~17GB VRAM to run inference open source under apache 2.0

NVIDIA DROPPED A MOTION DIFFUSION MODEL FOR HUMANOID ROBOTS trained on 700 hours of mocap data kimodo generates high-quality 3D human and robot motions from text prompts you control it with: → full-body pose keyframes → end-effector positions/rotations → 2D paths and waypoints works on human skeletons and unitree G1 robot plug the outputs directly into mujoco or retarget to other robots using GMR has a web-based interactive demo with a timeline editor. runs locally needs ~17GB VRAM to run inference open source under apache 2.0

Vaishnavi

17,572 views • 4 months ago

Walden Robotics came out of stealth with a $300M seed at a $1.1B valuation. A Toyota Research Institute spinout (founded January), its thesis: the hard problem in robotics is now deployment, not research. So it's putting general-purpose humanoids to work on the repetitive tasks workers find burdensome. They're already running in a pilot at a North American Toyota plant: its robot works 8-hour shifts alongside human teams, loading and unloading car parts, cleaning machinery, and kitting for assembly. Team: led by CEO Russ Tedrake (MIT professor, ex-SVP of Large Behavior Models at TRI), with a founding group drawn largely from TRI's robotics team plus deployment and operations veterans. Full-stack: builds its own hardware, software, and AI models Backers: Toyota, NVIDIA, Boeing, Samsung Ventures, CoreWeave Ventures, Deviation Capital Cambridge, MA based

Walden Robotics came out of stealth with a $300M seed at a $1.1B valuation. A Toyota Research Institute spinout (founded January), its thesis: the hard problem in robotics is now deployment, not research. So it's putting general-purpose humanoids to work on the repetitive tasks workers find burdensome. They're already running in a pilot at a North American Toyota plant: its robot works 8-hour shifts alongside human teams, loading and unloading car parts, cleaning machinery, and kitting for assembly. Team: led by CEO Russ Tedrake (MIT professor, ex-SVP of Large Behavior Models at TRI), with a founding group drawn largely from TRI's robotics team plus deployment and operations veterans. Full-stack: builds its own hardware, software, and AI models Backers: Toyota, NVIDIA, Boeing, Samsung Ventures, CoreWeave Ventures, Deviation Capital Cambridge, MA based

The Humanoid Hub

40,594 views • 1 month ago

ENGINEAI just opened registration for URKL, a global humanoid fighting league with an insane ¥10,000,000 (approx. $1.39 million) top prize. 🤖🥊 This is a massive engineering challenge focused on motion control and balance using the "T800" humanoid as the standard bot. The rules are strictly "non-violent," meaning no destructive mods are allowed. You win through better code and smarter protective gear. Here is the breakdown for teams looking to jump in: ➤ Massive Payouts: The winner takes ¥10,000,000 (approx. $1.39 million), second gets ¥2,000,000 (approx. $278,000), and third takes ¥1,000,000 (approx. $139,000). ➤ Hardware Perks: Every team that makes it into the Top 16 officially owns their T800 robot. ➤ Career Fast-Track: Top 8 finalists get a "Green Channel" straight to the final interview for job offers at ENGINEAI. ➤ Registration: Open from March 1 to April 30. Teams need at least 3 members with skills in control, electronics, or mechanical design. ➤ Global Finals: After the qualifiers, the world championship is set for December 2026 through January 2027. Once you are in, the committee hands over the simulation platform and T800 models to start training your boxing algorithms. Full Info: #Robot #Humanoid #Robotics #AI #EmbodiedAI #PhysicalAI #URKL #ENGINEAI #RobotFighting

ENGINEAI just opened registration for URKL, a global humanoid fighting league with an insane ¥10,000,000 (approx. $1.39 million) top prize. 🤖🥊 This is a massive engineering challenge focused on motion control and balance using the "T800" humanoid as the standard bot. The rules are strictly "non-violent," meaning no destructive mods are allowed. You win through better code and smarter protective gear. Here is the breakdown for teams looking to jump in: ➤ Massive Payouts: The winner takes ¥10,000,000 (approx. $1.39 million), second gets ¥2,000,000 (approx. $278,000), and third takes ¥1,000,000 (approx. $139,000). ➤ Hardware Perks: Every team that makes it into the Top 16 officially owns their T800 robot. ➤ Career Fast-Track: Top 8 finalists get a "Green Channel" straight to the final interview for job offers at ENGINEAI. ➤ Registration: Open from March 1 to April 30. Teams need at least 3 members with skills in control, electronics, or mechanical design. ➤ Global Finals: After the qualifiers, the world championship is set for December 2026 through January 2027. Once you are in, the committee hands over the simulation platform and T800 models to start training your boxing algorithms. Full Info: #Robot #Humanoid #Robotics #AI #EmbodiedAI #PhysicalAI #URKL #ENGINEAI #RobotFighting

RoboHub🤖

30,637 views • 6 months ago

Robots now take crypto payments before they move a muscle Fabric Foundation (Fabric Foundation) has wired its RoboPay rail into physical hardware for the first time, demoing x402 payment verification on three platforms: Deep Robotics' M20 Pro quadruped, the AGIBot X2 humanoid, and a DOBOT CR5V robotic arm. A $USDC payment clears, RoboPay authorizes a bounded task, and the machine executes, from patrol runs to pick-and-place. The demo ran on Base's Sepolia testnet. With x402 already moving payments between AI agents, hardware integrations like these sketch out where the machine economy goes next: robots as paid, verifiable service providers.

Robots now take crypto payments before they move a muscle Fabric Foundation (Fabric Foundation) has wired its RoboPay rail into physical hardware for the first time, demoing x402 payment verification on three platforms: Deep Robotics' M20 Pro quadruped, the AGIBot X2 humanoid, and a DOBOT CR5V robotic arm. A $USDC payment clears, RoboPay authorizes a bounded task, and the machine executes, from patrol runs to pick-and-place. The demo ran on Base's Sepolia testnet. With x402 already moving payments between AI agents, hardware integrations like these sketch out where the machine economy goes next: robots as paid, verifiable service providers.

BSCN

25,001 views • 1 month ago