Heaptalk, Jakarta — Nvidia unveiled Project GR00T, a general-purpose AI model for creating humanoid robots at the company’s annual developer conference (03/18). GR00T stands for Generalist Robot 00 Technology.
The GR00T-powered robot will be designed to understand natural language and imitate movements by observing human actions. The company claimed that the human-like robot will swiftly learn coordination, dexterity, and other skills to navigate, adapt, and interact with the real world.
This AI model is built on a computing platform called the Jetson Thor. This computer can perform complex tasks and interact safely and naturally with people and machines. Further, Nvidia also introduced its suite of software tools to develop the humanoid robot called the Isaac platform.
GR00T enables humanoid embodiments to learn from multiple human demonstrations with imitation learning and Nvidia Isaac Lab for reinforcement learning, as well as generating robot movements from video data. The GR00T model takes multimodal instructions and past interactions as input and generates actions for the robot to execute.
“Building foundation models for general humanoid robots is one of the most exciting problems to solve in AI today. The enabling technologies are coming together for leading roboticists around the world to take giant leaps towards artificial general robotics,” said founder and CEO of Nvidia Jensen Huang.
Currently, the company is also building a comprehensive AI platform for leading humanoid robot companies such as 1X Technologies, Agility Robotics, Apptronik, Boston Dynamics, Figure AI, Fourier Intelligence, Sanctuary AI, Unitree Robotics, and XPeng Robotics.
