NVIDIA just unveiled the Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot at GTC Taipei, an open blueprint that pairs a Unitree H2 Plus chassis and Sharpa tactile hands with its new Jetson Thor AI computer. It covers the full stack from simulation to real-world deployment, aiming to save researchers from cobbling together fragmented hardware and software. Stanford, ETH Zurich, and Ai2 are already on board, with hardware shipping late 2026.
Boston Dynamics just expanded its partnership with NVIDIA to bring the Isaac GR00T framework and Jetson Thor compute to its electric Atlas humanoid. The setup lets Atlas run heavy multimodal models alongside its native whole-body controllers, while training complex locomotion in Isaac Lab. Why it matters: The world's most agile robot just picked up the most popular AI compute stack.
NVIDIA just unveiled its Isaac GR00T Blueprint for synthetic motion generation alongside the new Cosmos world foundation models at CES. Developers can capture human demos via Apple Vision Pro and multiply them into massive synthetic datasets in Omniverse. Robotics giants Boston Dynamics and Figure are already onboard.
