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NVIDIA just announced EgoScale 🤖🧠 NVIDIA Research has uncovered a log-linear scaling law for robot dexterity by pretraining VLA models on over 20,000 hours of egocentric human video This massive dataset is 20 times larger than previous efforts and proves that robot intelligence follows a predictable path: the more...

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The problem with humanoid teleoperation is that it is expensive and difficult to scale Enter NVIDIA's EgoScale: - A VLA model pretrained on thousands hours of egocentric human videos. - Mid-trained via 50 hours of human + 4 hours of robot "play" data for human-robot alignment. - Fine-tuned with very few examples of task-specific robot teleoperation (100 or fewer per task). - Successfully transfers across 5-finger (Sharpa) and 3-finger (Unitree G1) robot hands. - Performance scales predictably as data increases.
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The problem with humanoid teleoperation is that it is expensive and difficult to scale Enter NVIDIA's EgoScale: - A VLA model pretrained on thousands hours of egocentric human videos. - Mid-trained via 50 hours of human + 4 hours of robot "play" data for human-robot alignment. - Fine-tuned with very few examples of task-specific robot teleoperation (100 or fewer per task). - Successfully transfers across 5-finger (Sharpa) and 3-finger (Unitree G1) robot hands. - Performance scales predictably as data increases.

The Humanoid Hub

44,441 views • 3 months ago

We trained a humanoid with 22-DoF dexterous hands to assemble model cars, operate syringes, sort poker cards, fold/roll shirts, all learned primarily from 20,000+ hours of egocentric human video with no robot in the loop. Humans are the most scalable embodiment on the planet. We discovered a near-perfect log-linear scaling law (R² = 0.998) between human video volume and action prediction loss, and this loss directly predicts real-robot success rate. Humanoid robots will be the end game, because they are the practical form factor with minimal embodiment gap from humans. Call it the Bitter Lesson of robot hardware: the kinematic similarity lets us simply retarget human finger motion onto dexterous robot hand joints. No learned embeddings, no fancy transfer algorithms needed. Relative wrist motion + retargeted 22-DoF finger actions serve as a unified action space that carries through from pre-training to robot execution. Our recipe is called "EgoScale": - Pre-train GR00T N1.5 on 20K hours of human video, mid-train with only 4 hours (!) of robot play data with Sharpa hands. 54% gains over training from scratch across 5 highly dexterous tasks. - Most surprising result: a *single* teleop demo is sufficient to learn a never-before-seen task. Our recipe enables extreme data efficiency. - Although we pre-train in 22-DoF hand joint space, the policy transfers to a Unitree G1 with 7-DoF tri-finger hands. 30%+ gains over training on G1 data alone. The scalable path to robot dexterity was never more robots. It was always us. Deep dives in thread:
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We trained a humanoid with 22-DoF dexterous hands to assemble model cars, operate syringes, sort poker cards, fold/roll shirts, all learned primarily from 20,000+ hours of egocentric human video with no robot in the loop. Humans are the most scalable embodiment on the planet. We discovered a near-perfect log-linear scaling law (R² = 0.998) between human video volume and action prediction loss, and this loss directly predicts real-robot success rate. Humanoid robots will be the end game, because they are the practical form factor with minimal embodiment gap from humans. Call it the Bitter Lesson of robot hardware: the kinematic similarity lets us simply retarget human finger motion onto dexterous robot hand joints. No learned embeddings, no fancy transfer algorithms needed. Relative wrist motion + retargeted 22-DoF finger actions serve as a unified action space that carries through from pre-training to robot execution. Our recipe is called "EgoScale": - Pre-train GR00T N1.5 on 20K hours of human video, mid-train with only 4 hours (!) of robot play data with Sharpa hands. 54% gains over training from scratch across 5 highly dexterous tasks. - Most surprising result: a *single* teleop demo is sufficient to learn a never-before-seen task. Our recipe enables extreme data efficiency. - Although we pre-train in 22-DoF hand joint space, the policy transfers to a Unitree G1 with 7-DoF tri-finger hands. 30%+ gains over training on G1 data alone. The scalable path to robot dexterity was never more robots. It was always us. Deep dives in thread:

Jim Fan

291,616 views • 3 months ago

Tired of teleoperation? One human video → 1,000s of robot demos. (📍GitHub ) Scaling Robot Data Without Dynamics Simulation or Robot Hardware Real2Render2Real (R2R2R) is a new way to scale robot data without physics simulation or hardware. You take a phone scan + a single monocular human demo. It tracks the motion, renders photorealistic scenes, and generates diverse, robot-agnostic trajectories ready for training. > No teleop, no sim, no robot, just a phone and a video > Train VLA models and diffusion policies directly on the output > Supports multiple robot embodiments with kinematic consistency > 1000s of demos in 1/27 the time of real-world collection Thank you, Max Fu, for sharing!! Project: Paper: Code coming soon: It shows that with the right pipeline, you can scale robot learning data without touching a robot. One of the most interesting directions in scalable robotics today. —— Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free:
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Tired of teleoperation? One human video → 1,000s of robot demos. (📍GitHub ) Scaling Robot Data Without Dynamics Simulation or Robot Hardware Real2Render2Real (R2R2R) is a new way to scale robot data without physics simulation or hardware. You take a phone scan + a single monocular human demo. It tracks the motion, renders photorealistic scenes, and generates diverse, robot-agnostic trajectories ready for training. > No teleop, no sim, no robot, just a phone and a video > Train VLA models and diffusion policies directly on the output > Supports multiple robot embodiments with kinematic consistency > 1000s of demos in 1/27 the time of real-world collection Thank you, Max Fu, for sharing!! Project: Paper: Code coming soon: It shows that with the right pipeline, you can scale robot learning data without touching a robot. One of the most interesting directions in scalable robotics today. —— Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free:

Ilir Aliu

42,804 views • 4 months ago

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:
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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 Robotics

161,220 views • 19 days ago

Egocentric Videos for Robot Training 🧵 Researchers at NYU and UC Berkeley published research where they developed a system called EgoZero that trains robots using human demonstration videos recorded with smart glasses. 👓 The system converts first-person human actions into 3D point-based state-action representations. The policies executed on a gripper-equipped robot, achieved a 70% zero-shot success rate across seven manipulation tasks, with only 20 minutes of human data per task. EgoZero stands as one of the solid empirical proofs that egocentric smart-glass video collected from everyday human behavior can serve as powerful, scalable training data for real robot learning. Vincent Liu Ademi Adeniji
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Egocentric Videos for Robot Training 🧵 Researchers at NYU and UC Berkeley published research where they developed a system called EgoZero that trains robots using human demonstration videos recorded with smart glasses. 👓 The system converts first-person human actions into 3D point-based state-action representations. The policies executed on a gripper-equipped robot, achieved a 70% zero-shot success rate across seven manipulation tasks, with only 20 minutes of human data per task. EgoZero stands as one of the solid empirical proofs that egocentric smart-glass video collected from everyday human behavior can serve as powerful, scalable training data for real robot learning. Vincent Liu Ademi Adeniji

VaderResearch

23,055 views • 9 months ago

An interactive world model developed by NVIDIA in collaboration with academic partners. - DreamDojo turns egocentric human video data into physical intelligence. - Human data is more scalable than robotics data but lacks action labels. - To solve this, a dedicated action model extracts latent actions by identifying physics and motion deltas between frames. Training - A massive 44k hours of video data are used for pre-training. - Post-training on small-scale robot datasets maps human physics to specific robot embodiments. - An additional distillation stage converts the model into an autoregressive, few-step diffusion model, enabling real-time, action-controllable simulation. Primary Use Cases - Live Teleoperation: Controlling a robot inside a world simulation in real-time. - Model-based Planning: Previewing and curating the best actions for improved success. - Policy Evaluation: Testing robot policies in realistic, out-of-distribution scenarios. Everything that's open-sourced: weights, code, post-training dataset, eval set, and details to reproduce.
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An interactive world model developed by NVIDIA in collaboration with academic partners. - DreamDojo turns egocentric human video data into physical intelligence. - Human data is more scalable than robotics data but lacks action labels. - To solve this, a dedicated action model extracts latent actions by identifying physics and motion deltas between frames. Training - A massive 44k hours of video data are used for pre-training. - Post-training on small-scale robot datasets maps human physics to specific robot embodiments. - An additional distillation stage converts the model into an autoregressive, few-step diffusion model, enabling real-time, action-controllable simulation. Primary Use Cases - Live Teleoperation: Controlling a robot inside a world simulation in real-time. - Model-based Planning: Previewing and curating the best actions for improved success. - Policy Evaluation: Testing robot policies in realistic, out-of-distribution scenarios. Everything that's open-sourced: weights, code, post-training dataset, eval set, and details to reproduce.

The Humanoid Hub

11,575 views • 3 months ago

Tired of teleoperating your robots? We built a way to scale robot datasets without teleop, dynamic simulation, or even robot hardware. Just one smartphone scan + one human hand demo video → thousands of diverse robot trajectories. Trainable by diffusion policy and VLA models as-is. Introducing: Real2Render2Real 👉
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Tired of teleoperating your robots? We built a way to scale robot datasets without teleop, dynamic simulation, or even robot hardware. Just one smartphone scan + one human hand demo video → thousands of diverse robot trajectories. Trainable by diffusion policy and VLA models as-is. Introducing: Real2Render2Real 👉

Max Fu

69,224 views • 1 year ago

Nvidia presents DreamDojo A Generalist Robot World Model from Large-Scale Human Videos
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Nvidia presents DreamDojo A Generalist Robot World Model from Large-Scale Human Videos

AK

38,690 views • 4 months ago

Qwen-VLA feels like one of the first real robotics foundation models. A single system trained across robot manipulation, navigation, egocentric human video, simulation, and vision-language reasoning instead of isolated robot policies.
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Qwen-VLA feels like one of the first real robotics foundation models. A single system trained across robot manipulation, navigation, egocentric human video, simulation, and vision-language reasoning instead of isolated robot policies.

Robots Digest 🤖

14,601 views • 22 days ago

Humanoid robotics is entering a new phase： Xiaomi Robotics 0 (XR-0) explores learning manipulation directly from large-scale human videos — aligning video understanding with robot embodiment to generate executable actions. Watch humans->learn representations ->map to robot control. Robot data is scarce. Internet video is not. If video pretraining transfers reliably into embodied control, the scaling law of robotics changes. Deployment speed becomes a function of model alignment, not just hardware iteration. We’re moving from engineered skills to learned behavior. That’s a structural shift. project:
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Humanoid robotics is entering a new phase： Xiaomi Robotics 0 (XR-0) explores learning manipulation directly from large-scale human videos — aligning video understanding with robot embodiment to generate executable actions. Watch humans->learn representations ->map to robot control. Robot data is scarce. Internet video is not. If video pretraining transfers reliably into embodied control, the scaling law of robotics changes. Deployment speed becomes a function of model alignment, not just hardware iteration. We’re moving from engineered skills to learned behavior. That’s a structural shift. project:

CyberRobo

18,356 views • 4 months ago

NVIDIA has open-sourced SONIC, a humanoid behavior foundation model that gives robots a core set of motor skills learned from large-scale human motion data.
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NVIDIA has open-sourced SONIC, a humanoid behavior foundation model that gives robots a core set of motor skills learned from large-scale human motion data.

The Humanoid Hub

33,542 views • 3 months ago

⚡️EgoVerse is a first-of-its-kind, collaborative ecosystem for human-to-robot learning. The consortium leverages Project Aria to capture high-fidelity, egocentric human data — including 3D hand and head poses — to train next-gen robot manipulation policies. With over 1,300 hours of data across 2,000+ tasks, EgoVerse is a prime example of how the Aria Research Kit is being used by our partners to accelerate the future of embodied AI. Learn more: 🔗 📰 Apply for the Aria Research Kit: #MachineLearning #Robotics #ProjectAria #EgoVerse #ComputerVision Simar Kareer , Ryan Punamiya , Roger Qiu, Xiongyi Cai , Alexey Gavryushin
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⚡️EgoVerse is a first-of-its-kind, collaborative ecosystem for human-to-robot learning. The consortium leverages Project Aria to capture high-fidelity, egocentric human data — including 3D hand and head poses — to train next-gen robot manipulation policies. With over 1,300 hours of data across 2,000+ tasks, EgoVerse is a prime example of how the Aria Research Kit is being used by our partners to accelerate the future of embodied AI. Learn more: 🔗 📰 Apply for the Aria Research Kit: #MachineLearning #Robotics #ProjectAria #EgoVerse #ComputerVision Simar Kareer , Ryan Punamiya , Roger Qiu, Xiongyi Cai , Alexey Gavryushin

Project Aria @Meta

17,917 views • 2 months ago

Quadrupeds are fast. Agile. Great at locomotion. But can they manipulate? A new approach from Carnegie Mellon University, Google DeepMind, and Bosch is teaching quadrupedal robots to do more than walk, they’re learning to interact. It’s called Human2LocoMan: a system that uses human data to pretrain robot policies before finetuning on real hardware. The result? A four-legged robot that can walk, carry, organize, scoop, and sort with both single and dual-arm control. By pretraining on human motion, they cut the amount of robot data in half—while improving success rates by over 80% in unfamiliar environments. Their Modularized Cross-Embodiment Transformer (MXT) learns from both human and robot demonstrations, then generalizes those skills to physical tasks—no hardcoded behaviors required. It’s locomotion and manipulation. A quadruped that can walk and clean up after itself?
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Quadrupeds are fast. Agile. Great at locomotion. But can they manipulate? A new approach from Carnegie Mellon University, Google DeepMind, and Bosch is teaching quadrupedal robots to do more than walk, they’re learning to interact. It’s called Human2LocoMan: a system that uses human data to pretrain robot policies before finetuning on real hardware. The result? A four-legged robot that can walk, carry, organize, scoop, and sort with both single and dual-arm control. By pretraining on human motion, they cut the amount of robot data in half—while improving success rates by over 80% in unfamiliar environments. Their Modularized Cross-Embodiment Transformer (MXT) learns from both human and robot demonstrations, then generalizes those skills to physical tasks—no hardcoded behaviors required. It’s locomotion and manipulation. A quadruped that can walk and clean up after itself?

Lukas Ziegler

60,546 views • 11 months ago

Figure announces Project Go-Big: Internet-Scale Humanoid Pretraining and Direct Human-to-Robot Transfer The company has achieved a new milestone for the Helix AI model: after training exclusively on egocentric human data, Figure robots can now navigate real-world spaces from natural language commands such as “Go water the plants.” This also enabled a unified Helix model that can output both manipulation and navigation commands to the continuous control system. This ties into the Brookfield partnership that they announced yesterday. Brookfield is a global asset manager overseeing $1 trillion in assets, including 100,000 residential units, 500M square feet of commercial office space, and 160M square feet of logistics space. Using human video capture in a variety of Brookfield environments, Figure will amass critical pretraining data at scale, allowing them to explore the full potential of internet-scale embodied datasets for locomotion and manipulation.
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Figure announces Project Go-Big: Internet-Scale Humanoid Pretraining and Direct Human-to-Robot Transfer The company has achieved a new milestone for the Helix AI model: after training exclusively on egocentric human data, Figure robots can now navigate real-world spaces from natural language commands such as “Go water the plants.” This also enabled a unified Helix model that can output both manipulation and navigation commands to the continuous control system. This ties into the Brookfield partnership that they announced yesterday. Brookfield is a global asset manager overseeing $1 trillion in assets, including 100,000 residential units, 500M square feet of commercial office space, and 160M square feet of logistics space. Using human video capture in a variety of Brookfield environments, Figure will amass critical pretraining data at scale, allowing them to explore the full potential of internet-scale embodied datasets for locomotion and manipulation.

The Humanoid Hub

32,879 views • 9 months ago

Meta PARTNR is a research framework supporting seamless human-robot collaboration. Building on our research with Habitat, we’re open sourcing a large-scale benchmark, dataset and large planning model that we hope will enable the community to effectively train social robots.
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Meta PARTNR is a research framework supporting seamless human-robot collaboration. Building on our research with Habitat, we’re open sourcing a large-scale benchmark, dataset and large planning model that we hope will enable the community to effectively train social robots.

AI at Meta

106,951 views • 1 year ago

2. NVIDIA is building the GPT of humanoid robots. They just launched Isaac GR00T N1.5 - a foundation model for general purpose robotics. Here’s how it works: → A human demos the task once → Cosmos (their physics AI model) generates 1,000s of variations → Omniverse simulates the motions in high fidelity → The robot trains entirely in simulation → Then fine-tunes itself in the real world Robots can now learn general skills across tasks, tools, even body types with just one human demo. AI isn’t just thinking in text anymore. It’s perceiving. Reasoning. Moving. Physical AI is here and it’s training itself.
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2. NVIDIA is building the GPT of humanoid robots. They just launched Isaac GR00T N1.5 - a foundation model for general purpose robotics. Here’s how it works: → A human demos the task once → Cosmos (their physics AI model) generates 1,000s of variations → Omniverse simulates the motions in high fidelity → The robot trains entirely in simulation → Then fine-tunes itself in the real world Robots can now learn general skills across tasks, tools, even body types with just one human demo. AI isn’t just thinking in text anymore. It’s perceiving. Reasoning. Moving. Physical AI is here and it’s training itself.

Shruti

70,359 views • 1 year ago

Training humanoid robots on teleoperation alone won’t scale, says Rhoda AI CEO Jagdeep Singh. Unlike self-driving cars - which basically have four actuators (left, right, speed up, and slow down) and operate in a single environment (the road) - humanoid robots are completely different: "You're dealing with the full dexterity of a human hand - 20 degrees of freedom per hand. Every object is different. Every type of task is different." The problem isn't just the quantity of data - the bigger issue is diversity in the data, and it's why many humanoid robot demos will struggle to adapt to the real world: "If all the data you have is data that you've intentionally collected, then you almost by definition haven't seen the corner cases. You haven't seen all those edge scenarios that cause failure." Jagdeep says teleoperation is useful for fine-tuning robot behavior, but for pretraining, it's completely inadequate.
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Training humanoid robots on teleoperation alone won’t scale, says Rhoda AI CEO Jagdeep Singh. Unlike self-driving cars - which basically have four actuators (left, right, speed up, and slow down) and operate in a single environment (the road) - humanoid robots are completely different: "You're dealing with the full dexterity of a human hand - 20 degrees of freedom per hand. Every object is different. Every type of task is different." The problem isn't just the quantity of data - the bigger issue is diversity in the data, and it's why many humanoid robot demos will struggle to adapt to the real world: "If all the data you have is data that you've intentionally collected, then you almost by definition haven't seen the corner cases. You haven't seen all those edge scenarios that cause failure." Jagdeep says teleoperation is useful for fine-tuning robot behavior, but for pretraining, it's completely inadequate.

TBPN

19,218 views • 3 months ago

I don’t know if we live in a Matrix, but I know for sure that robots will spend most of their lives in simulation. Let machines train machines. I’m excited to introduce DexMimicGen, a massive-scale synthetic data generator that enables a humanoid robot to learn complex skills from only a handful of human demonstrations. Yes, as few as 5! DexMimicGen addresses the biggest pain point in robotics: where do we get data? Unlike with LLMs, where vast amounts of texts are readily available, you cannot simply download motor control signals from the internet. So researchers teleoperate the robots to collect motion data via XR headsets. They have to repeat the same skill over and over and over again, because neural nets are data hungry. This is a very slow and uncomfortable process. At NVIDIA, we believe the majority of high-quality tokens for robot foundation models will come from simulation. What DexMimicGen does is to trade GPU compute time for human time. It takes one motion trajectory from human, and multiplies into 1000s of new trajectories. A robot brain trained on this augmented dataset will generalize far better in the real world. Think of DexMimicGen as a learning signal amplifier. It maps a small dataset to a large (de facto infinite) dataset, using physics simulation in the loop. In this way, we free humans from babysitting the bots all day. The future of robot data is generative. The future of the entire robot learning pipeline will also be generative. 🧵
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I don’t know if we live in a Matrix, but I know for sure that robots will spend most of their lives in simulation. Let machines train machines. I’m excited to introduce DexMimicGen, a massive-scale synthetic data generator that enables a humanoid robot to learn complex skills from only a handful of human demonstrations. Yes, as few as 5! DexMimicGen addresses the biggest pain point in robotics: where do we get data? Unlike with LLMs, where vast amounts of texts are readily available, you cannot simply download motor control signals from the internet. So researchers teleoperate the robots to collect motion data via XR headsets. They have to repeat the same skill over and over and over again, because neural nets are data hungry. This is a very slow and uncomfortable process. At NVIDIA, we believe the majority of high-quality tokens for robot foundation models will come from simulation. What DexMimicGen does is to trade GPU compute time for human time. It takes one motion trajectory from human, and multiplies into 1000s of new trajectories. A robot brain trained on this augmented dataset will generalize far better in the real world. Think of DexMimicGen as a learning signal amplifier. It maps a small dataset to a large (de facto infinite) dataset, using physics simulation in the loop. In this way, we free humans from babysitting the bots all day. The future of robot data is generative. The future of the entire robot learning pipeline will also be generative. 🧵

Jim Fan

165,246 views • 1 year ago

Physics AI 🌊 Jensen just unveiled the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot at GTC Taipei--the world’s first open-source humanoid robot reference design Built on Jetson Thor edge computing and the Isaac GR00T open platform, it features a Unitree H2 Plus body with Sharpa five-finger dexterous hands and 75 degrees of freedom. Even before Physical AI truly explodes, NVIDIA has built a complete end-to-end full-stack infrastructure: >chips (Jetson Thor + Blackwell), >synthetic data (GR00T-Dreams), >world models (Cosmos), >foundation models (GR00T N-series VLA), >high-fidelity simulation platforms (Isaac Sim + Isaac Lab + Omniverse). Dozens of humanoid robot companies ,including Agility Robotics, Aglie robotics,Boston Dynamics, Figure, 1X, NEURA Robotics, XPENG Robotics, and more are already running large-scale daily simulation training on this platform, rapidly iterating perception, reasoning, and actions in virtual environments, speeding up the jump from lab prototypes to real factory deployment. By providing an open reference design and full-stack tools, NVIDIA has dramatically lowered the barrier, letting every robotics team join the Physical AI wave with low cost and high efficiency.
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Physics AI 🌊 Jensen just unveiled the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot at GTC Taipei--the world’s first open-source humanoid robot reference design Built on Jetson Thor edge computing and the Isaac GR00T open platform, it features a Unitree H2 Plus body with Sharpa five-finger dexterous hands and 75 degrees of freedom. Even before Physical AI truly explodes, NVIDIA has built a complete end-to-end full-stack infrastructure: >chips (Jetson Thor + Blackwell), >synthetic data (GR00T-Dreams), >world models (Cosmos), >foundation models (GR00T N-series VLA), >high-fidelity simulation platforms (Isaac Sim + Isaac Lab + Omniverse). Dozens of humanoid robot companies ,including Agility Robotics, Aglie robotics,Boston Dynamics, Figure, 1X, NEURA Robotics, XPENG Robotics, and more are already running large-scale daily simulation training on this platform, rapidly iterating perception, reasoning, and actions in virtual environments, speeding up the jump from lab prototypes to real factory deployment. By providing an open reference design and full-stack tools, NVIDIA has dramatically lowered the barrier, letting every robotics team join the Physical AI wave with low cost and high efficiency.

CyberRobo

17,092 views • 19 days ago