Nvidia has given the world a step closer to smart and humanoid robots with the launch of its latest advanced AI model.
In its Nvidia GTC 2025 event, the company revealed Isaac Groot N1, which says it is “the first model of the world’s humanoid Foundation Open in the world”, along with several other important development tools.
Nvidia says that their tools, which are now available, will facilitate the development of smarter and more functional robots than ever, in addition to allowing them to have more humanoid reasoning and skills, which does not sound scary at all.
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“The age of generalist robotics is here,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia. “With Nvidia Isaac Gr00t N1 and the new data generation frames and robot-learning, robotics developers everywhere will open the next border in the AI era.”
The company says that its robotics can help fill a deficit of more than 50 million caused by a shortage of global labor.
Nvidia says that Isaac Groot N1, which can be trained in real or synthetic data, can “easily” master tasks such as grabbing, moving objects with a unique or multiple arm and moving elements from one arm to another, but can also carry out several steps tasks that combine a series of general skills.
The model is built in a double system architecture inspired by the principles of human cognition, with “system 1” is a fast -thought action model, reflecting human reflections or intuition, while “System 2” is a slow thought model for “methodical and deliberate decisions.”
Driven by a vision language model, system 2 can consider and analyze its environment, and the instructions given to them, to plan actions, which are then translated by system 1 into precise and continuous robot movements.
Among the other tools that are being launched are a variety of simulation frames and plans such as the Nvidia Isaac Gr00T Plan to generate synthetic data, which help generate large detailed synthetic data sets necessary for the development of robots that would be prohibitively expensive to collect in real life.
There is also Newton, an open source physics engine, created together with Google Deepmind and Disney Research, which Nvidia says it is specially designed to develop robots.
Huang joined the stage for BDX droids inspired by Star Wars during his opening of GTC, which shows the possibilities of technology in theme parks or other entertainment places.
Nvidia first launched the Groot project (“Generalist Robot 00” technology) in GTC 2024, focusing mainly on cases of industrial use, which could learn and become smarter by observing human behavior, understanding natural language and emulating movements, allowing them to quickly learn coordination, deoxerity and other skills to navigate, adapt and interact with the real world.
