NVIDIA
Nvidia just dropped Isaac GROOT N1, an open-source AI model built to make humanoid robots more capable and adaptable.
CEO Jensen Huang calls it the start of “generalist robotics”, where robots can learn and adjust to different tasks more easily.
At GTC 2025, Nvidia showed off 1X Technologies’ NEO Gamma robot using GROOT N1 to autonomously tidy a space.
1X’s CEO, Bernt Børnich, said the model made it possible to deploy their robot with minimal extra training, moving close to robots that assist humans rather than just follow instructions.
How does it work?
GR00T N1 is built on dual-system AI, mimicking human thinking:
System 1: Fast, instinctive actions based on human demonstrations and synthetic data.
System 2: A reasoning model that plans out tasks before passing them to System 1 for execution.
Download, tweak, repeat
Early adopters include Boston Dynamics, Agility Robotics, Mentee Robotics, and Neura Robotics, all testing how GR00T N1 can improve humanoid movement and decision-making.
Nvidia has also made its training data and tools available on Hugging Face and GitHub, so developers can fine-tune the model for their own robots.
Humanoid robots learning from human demos? Great, now they’ll also have ✨anxiety✨.