It uses an approximately 6-foot-tall humanoid chassis and tactile five-fingered hands.
As part of his AI-palooza Computex keynote, NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang touched on the most relatable form of artificial intelligence: robots. The company has announced the new Isaac Gr00t reference design humanoid robot platform that combines the Unity H2 Plus humanoid robot, Sharpa five-fingered hands, and NVIDIA Jetson Thor onboard compute. It is associated with NVIDIA’s Gr00t open software and models that are “designed to help researchers and developers accelerate humanoid development workflows.”
The platform uses an approximately 6-foot-long Unity H2 humanoid chassis that weighs 150 pounds, with 31 degrees of freedom throughout the body. (The H2 model is listed for $29,900 on Uniti’s website, although the company has only shown renders on its website). The Gr00t developer platform will also support the cheaper Unitree G1 humanoid robot. NVIDIA first introduced its Gr00t N1 foundational model in March.
The chassis is fitted with dual Sharpa Wave tactile five-finger hands with 22 degrees of freedom, multi-view sensing including a head-mounted stereo camera, wrist camera and inertial measurement, as well as full body control with arm torque up to 120 Newton-metres (88 foot pounds).
The Gr00t Isaac is powered by NVIDIA’s Jetson AGX Thor T5000 onboard compute with an NVIDIA Blackwell GPU, 128GB of integrated memory, and a configurable 40 to 130 watt power range. The 15Ah battery provides 1 kWh of capacity for approximately three hours of endurance.
As has been the theme of humanoid presentations, no physical robot was seen. Rather, Huang described Isaac Gr00t as an open-source humanoid development platform. The company said several institutions, including AI2, ETH Zurich, Stanford Robotics Center, and UC San Diego, will use the reference design. “Robotics advances fastest when researchers can build on open platforms, share code, and test ideas on real machines,” Steve Cousins, executive director of the Stanford Robotics Center, said in a statement.
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