Overview
- Nvidia unveiled the Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid on June 1 as an integrated research platform combining Unitree’s H2 Plus body, Sharpa Wave five‑finger tactile hands, and Nvidia’s Jetson AGX Thor (Blackwell GPU).
- The system delivers 75 total degrees of freedom, wrist and head cameras, rich tactile sensing in the hands, and onboard Jetson Thor compute that Nvidia says can run real‑time inference with 2,070 FP4 teraflops and 128 GB unified memory.
- Isaac GR00T pairs Nvidia’s open multimodal GR00T models with Isaac simulation and Teleop tools, and Nvidia is publishing workflows and models via GitHub and Hugging Face to make training and deployment more reproducible for researchers.
- Nvidia says security features such as secure boot and confidential computing will route updates through its chips to verify code and protect data, while the company plans similar reference partnerships with robot makers in the U.S., Europe and South Korea.
- The platform will ship later in 2026 to universities and labs including Ai2, Stanford, ETH Zurich and UC San Diego, and the Unitree tie to Nvidia arrives as Unitree pursues a Shanghai STAR IPO and faces scrutiny from some U.S. lawmakers over China links.