NVIDIA's GTC Taipei 2026 keynote is expected to unveil a PC-centric platform and expand its Vera Rubin AI stack, highlighting edge and Physical AI with Jetson Thor and potential partnerships ahead of Computex.
NVIDIA announces the Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot, an open, end-to-end platform that combines a Unitree H2 Plus humanoid body with Sharpa five-finger hands, NVIDIA Jetson Thor onboard compute, and the Isaac GR00T software stack to streamline data capture, simulation, training and deployment. Leading institutions such as Ai2, ETH Zurich, Stanford Robotics Center, and UC San Diego will use the reference design to accelerate frontier humanoid robotics research. Availability is planned from Unitree in late 2026, with the Isaac GR00T workflow for Unitree G1 and related open models on GitHub and Hugging Face for developers.
Nvidia has introduced Jetson Thor, a powerful new AI module designed for humanoid robots and autonomous vehicles, offering significantly increased processing power and efficiency to enable more human-like interactions and autonomous decision-making. The company is betting heavily on robotics and autonomous vehicles as major growth areas, with early adopters including Amazon, Meta, and research institutions, amid a broader industry push towards more advanced AI-powered robots and vehicles.