NVIDIA Announces NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot for Academic Research - NVIDIA Newsroom
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Key takeaways
- The most recent headlines show a surge of activity around commercial‑grade humanoid robots.
- At NVIDIA’s GTC event in Taipei in early June, the company unveiled an open‑source reference design built on the Isaac GR00T platform that pairs a Unitree H2 Plus humanoid body with NVIDIA’s Jetson Thor board featuring the new Blackwell GPU, along with Sharpa five‑fingered hands and a full suite of AI models and simulation tools; sales of the research‑focused system to labs such as Stanford and ETH Zurich are slated to begin later this year.
- NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang emphasized that “physical AI” could generate a multi‑trillion‑dollar market, and the partnership is intended to lower the barrier for embodied‑AI research.
- Unitree, the Chinese robot maker supplying the H2 Plus, is preparing an October launch of the upgraded H2 Plus and is pursuing a Shanghai STAR‑board IPO that could raise about 4.2 billion yuan, while reporting that over 40 % of its revenue already comes from overseas customers.
- In the United States, 1X Technologies has started full‑scale production of its NEO humanoid in Hayward, California, marketing the robot as quieter than a refrigerator for domestic environments, and London‑based Humanoid announced a joint proof‑of‑concept with Bosch aimed at scaling production.
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Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, statements as to: humanoid robots bringing physical AI to the world’s largest industries, opening a multi trillion-dollar economic opportunity; expectations with respect to growth, performance, availability, and benefits of NVIDIA’s products, services and technologies, and related trends and drivers; expectations with respect to NVIDIA’s third party arrangements, including with its collaborators and partners; expectations with respect to technology developments, and related trends and drivers; projected market growth and trends; expectations with respect to AI and related industries; and other statements that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, statements as to: humanoid robots bringing physical AI to the world’s largest industries, opening a multi trillion-dollar economic opportunity; expectations with respect to growth, performance, availability, and benefits of NVIDIA’s products, services and technologies, and related trends and drivers; expectations with respect to NVIDIA’s third party arrangements, including with its collaborators and partners; expectations with respect to technology developments, and related trends and drivers; projected market growth and trends; expectations with respect to AI and related industries; and other statements that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities May 31, 2026
News Summary:
NVIDIA announces an open humanoid robot reference design built on the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T platform, combining a Unitree H2 Plus humanoid robot, Sharpa five-fingered hands for dexterous manipulation, NVIDIA Jetson Thor onboard compute for advanced reasoning and control, and NVIDIA Isaac GR00T open software and models. The Isaac GR00T development platform — spanning data capture and generation to robot model evaluation and deployment — helps researchers and developers accelerate humanoid development workflows. Leading research institutions including Ai2, ETH Zurich, Stanford Robotics Center and UC San Diego’s Advanced Robotics and Controls Laboratory will use the reference design to advance frontier humanoid robotics research.
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