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- Jun 1, 202690% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
NVIDIA Unveils the Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid
- NVIDIA announced the Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot at GTC Taipei on 1 June 2026 - the first open humanoid reference design built on Jetson Thor and the open Isaac GR00T development platform.[1]
- Jensen Huang: "Humanoid robots will bring physical AI to the world's largest industries, opening a multitrillion-dollar economic opportunity."[1]
- Ai2, ETH Zurich, the Stanford Robotics Center and UC San Diego's Advanced Robotics and Controls Laboratory are named launch users.[1]
Notable features
- The design pairs a Unitree H2 Plus chassis standing nearly six feet tall with Sharpa Wave tactile five-finger hands as the body, and Jetson Thor onboard compute with Isaac GR00T software and workflows as the brain.[1]
- It is meant to remove the need for proprietary platforms in frontier humanoid research, covering hardware integration, data collection, simulation, training, evaluation and deployment in one system.[1]
- The robot weighs about 150 lb, with 31 degrees of freedom in the body and 22 in each hand; it senses through a head-mounted stereo camera (140° by 102° field of view), wrist cameras, an IMU and a microphone and speaker array.[1][3]
- The Jetson AGX Thor T5000 pairs its Blackwell GPU with a 14-core Arm CPU and 128 GB of unified memory at 40-130 W; the arms give up to 120 N·m of torque and carry 7 kg rated (15 kg peak), the legs up to 360 N·m, from a 0.972 kWh battery.[1][3]
- Jetson AGX Thor T5000 supplies up to 2,070 FP4 teraflops on Blackwell, and the robot carries about 75 degrees of freedom across body and hands with roughly three hours of battery; Unitree is to sell it from late 2026.[2][3]
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- [1]90%investor.nvidia.com/news/press-release-details/2026/NVIDIA-Announces-NVIDIA-Isaac-GR00T-Reference-Humanoid-Robot-for-Academic-Research/default.aspxinvestor.nvidia.com· Posted Sep 21, 2026· Starts Jun 1, 2026 ✓· 43% of score
Happened as dated, per NVIDIA's[3] release: "TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NVIDIA GTC Taipei -- NVIDIA today announced the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot."
- [2]72%NVIDIA Reveals Open Humanoid Robot Platform for Academic Researchpulse2.com· Published Jun 5, 2026· 29% of score
Independent coverage giving the same platform, partners and quote, and adding the degrees of freedom, battery life and late-2026 availability through Unitree; a smaller tech site, so held below the level established trade press would earn.[1]
- [3]92%NVIDIA Announces NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot for Academic Research | NVIDIA Newsroom
NVIDIA's[1] newsroom release lists the design: a Unitree H2 chassis "weighing 150 pounds, with 31 degrees of freedom", Sharpa hands to "75 degrees of freedom", arm torque "up to 120 Newton-meters", Jetson AGX Thor T5000 with "2,070 FP4 teraflops" and a "0.972kWh" battery.
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