Overview
- NVIDIA on Monday, June 1, 2026, unveiled and validated the Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid that pairs Unitree’s H2 Plus body with Sharpa’s Wave five-finger hands and NVIDIA’s Jetson AGX Thor compute for an integrated research platform.
- The system is built for dexterous manipulation and real-time control with 75 total degrees of freedom, Sharpa hands offering 22 degrees each and high-resolution fingertip tactile arrays, plus onboard sensors for vision and motion.
- Onboard compute centers on Jetson Thor with NVIDIA Blackwell GPU performance quoted at about 2,070 FP4 teraflops, a 14-core Arm CPU and 128 GB of unified memory to run Isaac GR00T models and low-latency policies on the robot itself.
- NVIDIA will host Isaac GR00T models on Hugging Face under the OpenMDW-1.1 license and offers Isaac Sim and Teleop workflows to shorten sim-to-real cycles for universities such as Ai2, ETH Zurich, Stanford and UC San Diego.
- Availability timing is unclear with some remarks pointing to October and others saying late 2026, and the choice of Unitree raises geopolitical questions because the company is pursuing a China IPO while some U.S. lawmakers have proposed limits on use by federally funded researchers.