Nvidia has taken the world one step closer to smart, humanoidal robots with the launch of its latest advanced AI model.
At its NVIDIA GTC 2025 event, the company Isaac Groot N1, as it says, revealed “the world’s first open Humanoid Robot Foundation model” along with several other important development tools.
Nvidia says its tools that are available now will make the development of smarter and more functional robots easier than ever, along with letting them have more humanoid reasoning and skills – which doesn’t sound scary at all.
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“The age of generalistro potics is here,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia. “With NVIDIA ISAAC GR00T N1 and new data rating and robot-learning frame, robotics developing everywhere the next limit of AI’s age.”
The company says its robotic work can help fill a lack of more than 50 million caused by a global shortage of labor.
Nvidia says Isaac Groot N1, which can be trained in real or synthetic data, can “easily” master tasks such as grabbing, moving objects with either a single or more arms and moving objects from one arm to the other -but can also perform multiple -step tasks that combine a number of general skills.
The model is built across a double-system architecture inspired by the principles of human cognition, with “System 1” is a quick conceivable model of action that mirrors human reflexes or intuition, while “System 2” is a slow-thinking model for “conscious, methodological decision making.”
Driven by a vision language model, System 2 is able to consider and analyze its environment and the instructions given to plan actions – which is then translated by System 1 into precise, continuous robotic movements.
Among the other tools released are a series of simulation frames and drawings, such as NVIDIA ISAAC GR00T plan for generating synthetic data, which helps generate large, detailed synthetic data sets needed for robotic development, which would be unambiguously expensive to collect in real life.
There is also Newton, an open source physics engine, created with Google Deepmind and Disney Research, which Nvidia says is custom built for the development of robots.
Huang was gathered on the stage of Star Wars-inspired BDX drroges under his GTC headthals and showed the possibilities of technology in amusement parks or other entertainment places.
NVIDIA first launched Project Groot (“Generalist Robot 00 Technology”) on GTC 2024, primarily focusing on industrial use cases that could learn and become smarter by seeing human behavior, understanding the natural language and emulating movements so that they can quickly learn coordination, dexterity and other skills in navigating, adapting and interacting with the real world.
