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

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.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...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...Researchers can use the platform for data collection, simulation, training, teleoperation, deployment, and experimentation with humanoid foundation models...Several leading institutions have already committed to using the platform, including Stanford Robotics Center, ETH Zurich, Ai2, and UC San Diego... The bigger story is NVIDIA’s strategy...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...If researchers, startups, and manufacturers converge on the same tools, data pipelines, simulation environments, and AI models, humanoid development could accelerate significantly...In AI, NVIDIA became the company that everyone builds on...Now it’s trying to do the same thing for robots. Tune in tomorrow for more robotics news...