Robotic News. June 6, 2024. NVIDIA’s Next Big Platform Isn’t a Data Center—It’s a Robot

<p>Today is Saturday, June 6, 2026. A reminder that DROIDS Daily News is selected and verified by a human, and then read by an AI.</p><p><br />At GTC Taipei, NVIDIA unveiled the Isaac GR00TReference Humanoid Robot, an open platform designed to give researchers a complete humanoid development system right out of the box...<br /><br />The platform combines a Unitree H2 Plus humanoid body, Sharpa Wave tactile robotic hands, NVIDIA’s Jetson Thor AI computer, and the company’s Isaac GR00T software stack into a single integrated system...<br /><br />Researchers can use the platform for data collection, simulation, training, teleoperation, deployment, and experimentation with humanoid foundation models...<br /><br />Several leading institutions have already committed to using the platform, including Stanford Robotics Center, ETH Zurich, Ai2, and UC San Diego... <br /><br />The bigger story is NVIDIA’s strategy...<br /><br />Rather than building a humanoid robot of its own, NVIDIA is creating a common hardware and software foundation that researchers and robot makers can build upon. In many ways, it resembles the role that standardized PC architectures played in accelerating personal computing...<br /><br />If researchers, startups, and manufacturers converge on the same tools, data pipelines, simulation environments, and AI models, humanoid development could accelerate significantly...<br /><br />In AI, NVIDIA became the company that everyone builds on...<br /><br />Now it’s trying to do the same thing for robots. Tune in tomorrow for more robotics news...</p>