NVIDIA GR00T / Isaac
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/industries/robotics/isaac-groot/
NVIDIA Project GR00T (Mar-2024) — general-purpose humanoid foundation model + Isaac simulation stack + Jetson Thor compute. GR00T N1 model released open March 2025. NVIDIA's full-stack play: model + sim + compute + training cloud (Cosmos). Major partners include Figure, Apptronik, Boston Dynamics, Agility.
Active · Verified 2026-10-29 · fresh as of 2026-10-29 · 72 cited facts, 2 with a third-party source · 2 recorded changes · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Tier
- T1
- Created
- 2024-03 (GTC announcement) vendor fix
- Latest release
- GR00T N1.7 (2026-04-21) — Isaac-GR00T repo fix
- Pricing
- OSS weights free; Cosmos / Jetson hardware sold separately vendor fix
- Funding
- NVIDIA parent — public company, $3T+ mkt cap vendor fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-29 fix
- Layer
- large-models repo fix
- Licensing
- open-source repo fix
- Developer activity
- OpenRank 1.94 (12-mo avg 10.26) · 17 participants — 2026-09 third-party fix
When to use
Optimised for: Full-stack robotics FM: model + sim + compute, multi-partner
Anti-fit: Requires NVIDIA hardware (Jetson Thor / GPUs); Isaac Sim learning curve
Pros & cons
Pros
Full-stack robotics offering; major partner ecosystem; open-weights GR00T N1; NVIDIA distribution.
Cons
NVIDIA-hardware lock-in; Isaac Sim has steep learning curve; vendor sprawl across many SKUs.
Claims & capabilities
GR00T announced Mar-2024 (GTC); GR00T N1 open weights Mar-2025; Cosmos sim platform; Jetson Thor compute
Technical surface
- API surface
- Python; Isaac Sim; HuggingFace weights
- Backend storage
- Caller-managed (on-robot + cloud)
- Deployment
- On-robot (Jetson Thor) + simulation (Isaac Sim) + training cloud (Cosmos)
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- Per-developer / per-robot
- MCP
- not applicable — wrong section
- A2A
- not applicable — wrong section
- OpenTelemetry
- not applicable — wrong section
Compare NVIDIA GR00T / Isaac with…
Similar systems
Other robotics foundation models & agent stacks in the catalog, ranked by inbound references.
- Google DeepMind Gemini Robotics T1
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics + Gemini Robotics-ER (Embodied Reasoning) released Mar-2025. VLA models built on Gemini 2.0 backbone. Reference platform: Apptronik Apollo. The DeepMind line of robotics-FM, descendant of earlier RT-1 / RT-2 / RT-X work.
- Physical Intelligence (π) T1
Founded 2024 by Sergey Levine (UC Berkeley) and Karol Hausman + others (ex-Google Brain Robotics). Building general-purpose robot foundation models (π0 released Oct-2024; π0.5 in 2025) trained on cross-embodiment robot trajectories. Raised $400M Series A (Nov-2024; Jeff Bezos, OpenAI, Thrive, Lux) at $2.4B val. Released π0.7 (2026-04-16) and opened its models through the Pi API beta (2026-10-13).
- 1X Technologies T2
Norway / US humanoid robot company — Eve (wheeled bimanual) + Neo (legged humanoid, consumer-targeted, late 2025 / 2026 launch). Raised $100M Series B (Jan-2024, EQT + OpenAI Startup Fund); $40M Series A (Mar-2023, OpenAI lead). Distinguishing feature: consumer-home positioning rather than industrial.
- Agility Robotics T2
Oregon-based humanoid maker; Digit is in production at GXO Logistics warehouses since Sep-2024 — claimed first humanoid in commercial service in the US. Spinout of Oregon State University. $400M+ raised (Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund participant).
- Apptronik T2
Apollo humanoid maker, spun out of University of Texas Human Centered Robotics Lab. Raised $350M Series A (Feb-2025; B Capital + Capital Factory); Mercedes-Benz manufacturing partner (Mar 2024). Partnered with Google DeepMind on Gemini Robotics (Mar 2025) — Apollo is the headline reference platform for Gemini Robotics.
- Collaborative Robotics T3
Founded 2022 by Brad Porter (ex-Amazon Robotics VP + Scale AI CTO). Stealthier than the humanoid pack; raised $100M Series B Apr-2024 (General Catalyst). Targets warehouse + healthcare collaborative robots.
Sources (71 cited facts, 2 third-party)
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- What it is Robotics foundation model + simulation stack (NVIDIA) vendor
- What it does & what's distinct NVIDIA Project GR00T (Mar-2024) — general-purpose humanoid foundation model + Isaac simu… vendor
- Claims / benefits GR00T announced Mar-2024 (GTC); GR00T N1 open weights Mar-2025; Cosmos sim platform; Jet… vendor
- Modalities vision + language + action; sim-to-real vendor
- Created 2024-03 (GTC announcement) vendor
- Latest release GR00T N1.7 (2026-04-21) — Isaac-GR00T repo
- License Apache-2.0 code; model weights NVIDIA Open Model License repo
- GitHub NVIDIA/Isaac-GR00T — ~8.3k stars, last commit 2026-10 repo
- Mindshare Major GTC keynote launches 2024-2025; partner ecosystem (Figure, Apptronik, BD, Agility) vendor
- Citations GR00T N1 paper widely cited in 2025 robotics-FM literature paper
- Funding NVIDIA parent — public company, $3T+ mkt cap vendor
- Customers / scale Partners: Figure, Apptronik, Boston Dynamics, Agility, 1X, Sanctuary, Mentee Robotics vendor
- Pricing OSS weights free; Cosmos / Jetson hardware sold separately vendor
- Compliance NVIDIA enterprise security posture vendor
- Data handling Customer trajectory data on customer infra; Cosmos sim data is NVIDIA's vendor
- Deployment On-robot (Jetson Thor) + simulation (Isaac Sim) + training cloud (Cosmos) vendor
- HQ US (Santa Clara, CA) vendor
- Founders / pedigree NVIDIA — CEO Jensen Huang vendor
- Memory volume / scale Major partner ecosystem covers most leading humanoid + manipulation programs vendor
- Performance GR00T N1 vendor benchmarks: bimanual manipulation, sim-to-real transfer registry
- Reproducibility Weights + Isaac Lab sim env OSS repo
- Code/weights release OSS with NVIDIA Open Model license repo
- API surface Python; Isaac Sim; HuggingFace weights vendor
- Latency p50/p99 Jetson Thor: 800 TFLOPS on-robot inference vendor
- Throughput Cosmos: distributed training across NVIDIA cloud vendor
- Backend storage Caller-managed (on-robot + cloud) vendor
- Multi-tenancy Per-developer / per-robot vendor
- Encryption Standard NVIDIA enterprise vendor
- SSO / RBAC via NVIDIA developer accounts vendor
- Versioning GR00T N1 / N1.5 / etc. registry
- Namespace primitives per-developer / per-robot vendor
- Import / export Weights on HuggingFace registry
- Validated verticals humanoid manipulation, sim-to-real bench, broad robotics partners vendor
- Time to running Days (sim setup) to weeks (hardware integration) repo
- Anti-fit Requires NVIDIA hardware (Jetson Thor / GPUs); Isaac Sim learning curve vendor
- Optimised for Full-stack robotics FM: model + sim + compute, multi-partner vendor
- Adjacent infrastructure Isaac Sim; Cosmos training; Jetson Thor; HuggingFace vendor
- Pros Full-stack robotics offering; major partner ecosystem; open-weights GR00T N1; NVIDIA dis… vendor
- Cons NVIDIA-hardware lock-in; Isaac Sim has steep learning curve; vendor sprawl across many S… vendor
- Project & sources developer.nvidia.com/isaac/gr00t; huggingface.co/nvidia/GR00T-N1-2B; github.com/NVIDIA/I… vendor
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- obs-custom NVIDIA-internal experiment tracking; W&B integration via training pipelines vendor
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- eval-custom-test-harness yes vendor
- eval-human-loop no vendor
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- commit-trajectory [{"ym":"2025-03","cum":30},{"ym":"2025-04","cum":33},{"ym":"2025-05","cum":34},{"ym":"20… repo
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- cost-tier free vendor
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- architecture-deployment-locus local repo
- licensing-bucket open-source repo
- positioning-platform-vs-product platform vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup large-models repo
- developer-activity-opendigger {"activity":29.45,"as_of":"2026-09","openrank_12mo":10.26,"openrank_current":1.94,"parti… third-party
What changed
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- 2026-10-29
- Homepage “https://developer.nvidia.com/isaac/gr00t” → “https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/industries/robotics/isaac-groot/”
- 2026-10-27
- License “NVIDIA Open Model license” → “Apache-2.0 code; model weights NVIDIA Open Model License” source
- Latest release “GR00T N1 (2B) on HuggingFace Mar-2025” → “GR00T N1.7 (2026-04-21) — Isaac-GR00T” source