NVIDIA Advances Isaac Platform for General-Purpose Robotics With New Reference Humanoid, Frameworks, Simulation Pipelines and Data
Key Highlights
- ➤NVIDIA expands Isaac with humanoid reference platform, datasets, runtime and robot-learning updates
- ➤Agile ONE SN launches early 2027 with Jetson Thor, Isaac GR00T and planned Halos integration
- ➤Isaac Lab 3.0 generally available with open-source, multi-GPU robot-policy training
- ➤Isaac OS open-source runtime connects AI, sensors, controls and hardware for real-time robotics
- ➤Toyota Material Handling Europe and SoftServe report deployment-time reductions of up to 50%
Expert Statements
Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO of NVIDIA
“General-purpose robotics is advancing at extraordinary speed — the ChatGPT moment for robotics is fast approaching”
Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO of NVIDIA
“With NVIDIA Isaac, our full-stack open robotics platform, we are giving developers the models, data, simulation tools and computing systems to bring physical AI to the world’s largest industries.”
Zhaopeng Chen, Founder and CEO of Agile Robots
“The breakthrough for humanoids is usefulness at scale: one adaptable machine that learns many skills and works across environments built for people.”
Zhaopeng Chen, Founder and CEO of Agile Robots
“Today, Agile Robots introduced Agile ONE SN, a full-stack, open reference humanoid built on NVIDIA Isaac GR00T, powered by Jetson Thor, giving developers a ready system to create, train and validate the capabilities needed to put humanoids to work.”
News Summary: * Agile Robots announces Agile ONE SN, a humanoid reference platform built on NVIDIA Isaac GR00T and NVIDIA Jetson Thor with planned integration of the NVIDIA Halos safety stack, giving developers and researchers a complete platform for frontier humanoid development and validation. * NVIDIA Isaac platform adds new Isaac OS runtime, Isaac Lab 3.0 for robot learning and open source reference workflows that combine ChatGPT Astra with NVIDIA Isaac and Cosmos on NVIDIA DGX Station to accelerate robot data generation, training and evaluation. * Europe’s robotics ecosystem, including leaders like ABB Robotics, Flexion, Hexagon Robotics, Humanoid, KUKA, NEURA Robotics, Sereact and Universal Robots, is building on NVIDIA’s open robotics platform to advance autonomous robotic systems. BERLIN, Oct. 21, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GTC Berlin—NVIDIA today announced a major expansion of the NVIDIA Isaac™ open robotics development platform, adding a reference humanoid, datasets and runtime, along with updates to its robot learning framework.
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