Igeekphone reported on June 1st that NVIDIA has announced the launch of the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T humanoid robot reference design. This is the first open-source humanoid robot reference design built based on the NVIDIA Jetson Thor and NVIDIA Isaac GR00T open development platform.
The NVIDIA Isaac GR00T humanoid robot integrates the YuShu H2 Plus humanoid robot, the Sharpa Wave tactile five-finger dexterous hand, the NVIDIA Jetson Thor board-mounted computing, as well as the Isaac GR00T software and workflow (the “brain”) into a single integrated reference design. This unifies the development process and helps the research team transition more quickly from robot startup to skill development and real-world validation.
The base of the YuShu H2 humanoid robot is approximately 6 feet tall (as noted by Igeekphone: about 1.8 meters), weighs 150 pounds (about 68 kilograms), and has 31 degrees of freedom throughout its body.
The dual Sharpa Wave tactile five-fingered hand can achieve 22 degrees of freedom for precise manipulation, enabling the robot to reach 75 degrees of freedom in both its body and hand.
Multi-angle sensing, including a head-mounted stereo camera (with a horizontal field of view of 140 degrees and a vertical field of view of 102 degrees), a wrist camera for close-range operation, and an inertial measurement unit for motion tracking.
Full body control, with arm torque reaching up to 120 Newton-meters, leg torque up to 360 Newton-meters, and the rated effective load capacity of the arms being 7 kilograms, with the peak effective load capacity reaching 15 kilograms.
The NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor T5000 board features on-board computing, equipped with the NVIDIA Blackwell GPU, with AI performance reaching 2070 FP4 teraflops; it has a 14-core Arm CPU, 128GB unified memory, and a configurable power range of 40 to 130 watts, suitable for real-time sensor processing and robot reasoning.
Supports Ethernet, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, USB connections, and is equipped with a series of microphones and speakers for voice interaction.
The battery capacity is 15Ah, equivalent to 0.972kWh, and the battery life is approximately 3 hours.
Supports remote emergency stop function, enabling quick and safe disengagement from the robot.
The NVIDIA Isaac GR00T developer platform will also support the Yushu G1 humanoid robot, extending the same development methods to robots that are widely used by developers. It is expected to be announced on GitHub and Hugging Face soon.
Igeekphone has learned from Nvidia’s announcement that the Nvidia Isaac GR00T humanoid robot will be launched by Yushu by the end of 2026.