NVIDIA expands Isaac open robotics platform at GTC Berlin with reference humanoid, Isaac OS and Isaac Lab 3.0
New Isaac OS runtime, Isaac Lab 3.0 and the Agile ONE SN reference humanoid - NVIDIA's full-stack push for general-purpose robotics.
NVIDIA used GTC Berlin on October 21 to announce a major expansion of Isaac, its open robotics development platform: a reference humanoid, new datasets, a runtime, and updates to its robot learning framework. The company frames the package as an integrated path from data to deployment for general-purpose robots - or, in CEO Jensen Huang's words, a bet that "the ChatGPT moment for robotics is fast approaching."
Alongside NVIDIA, Agile Robots unveiled the Agile ONE SN, a full-stack reference humanoid preconfigured with Isaac GR00T and powered by the NVIDIA Jetson Thor edge AI platform. The machine stands 1.40 meters tall, weighs 40 kilograms, and offers 31 degrees of freedom with a 3-kilogram payload per arm. Its dual WUJI Hand 2 five-finger hands each provide 20 degrees of freedom, 1kHz force control and tactile sensing for dexterous manipulation, while the onboard Jetson Thor delivers 2,070 FP4 teraflops of compute with 128GB of unified memory. Agile ONE SN is scheduled to be available in early 2027, with interest already reported from Stanford University and ETH Zurich, and NVIDIA's Halos safety system is planned for integration.
On the software side, Isaac Lab 3.0 - the open-source robot learning framework - is now generally available, and Isaac OS arrives as a new open-source runtime built on Holoscan that connects AI, sensors, controls and robot hardware. NVIDIA is also releasing open reference workflows for DGX Station that combine ChatGPT Astra with Isaac and Cosmos, including post-training Cosmos world models for synthetic data generation, plus the SimReady Central Library of more than 2,000 simulation-ready assets and the Human 1M dataset, both available on Hugging Face.
Europe's robotics ecosystem is lining up behind the platform: ABB Robotics, KUKA, NEURA Robotics, Humanoid, Flexion, Hexagon Robotics, Sereact and Universal Robots are all building autonomous robotic systems on Isaac, NVIDIA said.