NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) announced the Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot, an open humanoid robot reference design built on the NVIDIA Jetson Thor platform and Isaac GR00T development platform, according to a press release statement.

The reference design combines a Unitree H2 Plus humanoid robot, Sharpa five-fingered hands, NVIDIA Jetson Thor onboard compute, and NVIDIA Isaac GR00T software and models. The robot stands nearly 6 feet tall, weighs 150 pounds, and features 75 degrees of freedom across the body and hands.

The system includes a head-mounted stereo camera with 140-degree horizontal and 102-degree vertical field of view, wrist cameras for manipulation, and an inertial measurement unit for motion tracking. The robot provides arm torque up to 120 Newton-meters, leg torque up to 360 Newton-meters, and rated arm payload of 7 kilograms.

The NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor T5000 onboard compute features a Blackwell GPU with 2,070 FP4 teraflops of AI performance, a 14-core Arm CPU, 128GB of unified memory, and configurable 40- to 130-watt power range. The robot includes a 15Ah, 0.972kWh battery providing approximately three hours of operation.

Research institutions including Ai2, ETH Zurich, Stanford Robotics Center, and UC San Diego's Advanced Robotics and Controls Laboratory will use the reference design for humanoid robotics research.

"Humanoid robots will bring physical AI to the world's largest industries, opening a multitrillion-dollar economic opportunity," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA.

The Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot will be available from Unitree in late 2026. The platform will also support the Unitree G1 humanoid robot, with reference workflow expected to be available on GitHub and Hugging Face.