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NVIDIA
Supplies much of the humanoid software and compute stack: the open Isaac GR00T N-series humanoid foundation models, Isaac Sim/Lab simulation, and Jetson Thor onboard computers. Its NVentures arm is also an investor in several robot-model startups.
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Generalist AI raises $400M
Generalist AI raised $400M at a $2B valuation in a round led by Radical Ventures, with Nvidia and Bezos Expeditions returning.
Generalist AINVIDIAfinance.yahoo.com - Open source
NVIDIA announces Isaac GR00T reference humanoid
NVIDIA announced an open humanoid reference design for academic research, pairing a Unitree H2 Plus body with Sharpa hands and Jetson Thor compute.
NVIDIAUnitree Roboticsnvidianews.nvidia.comhumanoid.guide - Funding
Skild AI raises $1.4B at over $14B valuation
Skild AI raised about $1.4B in a SoftBank-led round, with Nvidia participating, valuing the company at more than $14B.
Skild AINVIDIAtechcrunch.combloomberg.com
20254
- Open source
Newton physics engine joins the Linux Foundation
Disney Research, Google DeepMind and NVIDIA contributed Newton, an open-source GPU physics engine for robot learning, to the Linux Foundation.
NVIDIAGoogle DeepMindlinuxfoundation.orggithub.com - Milestone
NVIDIA Jetson Thor becomes available
NVIDIA made its Blackwell-based Jetson AGX Thor developer kit and production modules generally available for humanoid and other robots.
NVIDIAinvestor.nvidia.com - Open source
NVIDIA releases Isaac GR00T N1
NVIDIA announced GR00T N1 at GTC, describing it as an open, customizable foundation model for humanoid robots.
NVIDIAinvestor.nvidia.comarxiv.org - Open source
NVIDIA, Google DeepMind and Disney announce Newton
At GTC 2025, NVIDIA said it was working with Google DeepMind and Disney Research on Newton, an open physics engine for robot simulation. The companies also announced MuJoCo Warp, a GPU version of MuJoCo built on NVIDIA Warp.
NVIDIAGoogle DeepMindtechcrunch.comnvidia.com
20211
- Research
NVIDIA publishes Isaac Gym
NVIDIA researchers described Isaac Gym, which runs physics simulation and policy training on the GPU for large-scale robot reinforcement learning.
NVIDIAarxiv.orggithub.com