VentureBeat March 18, 2025
OK, this is not a drill. The robots are coming.
Nvidia announced a portfolio of technologies to supercharge humanoid robot development, including Nvidia Isaac GR00T N1, the world’s first open, fully customizable foundation model for generalized humanoid reasoning and skills.
The other technologies include simulation frameworks and blueprints such as the Nvidia Isaac GR00T Blueprint for generating synthetic data, as well as Newton, an open-source physics engine — under development with Google DeepMind and Disney Research — purpose-built for developing robots.
Available now, GR00T N1 is the first of a family of fully customizable models that Nvidia will pretrain and release to worldwide robotics developers — accelerating the transformation of industries challenged by global labor shortages estimated at more than...