For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @nvidia signed on why open models matter.
AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.
Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.
Associate Professor @UTCompSci | Director @NVIDIAAI Co-Leading GEAR | CS PhD @Stanford | Building generalist robot autonomy in the wild | Opinions are my own
- Today, we're introducing SimFoundry, our real2sim2real framework at NVIDIA GEAR that automatically turns real-world scenes into simulation-ready worlds from a single image or video. Website: research.nvidia.com/labs/gear/simf… Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2606.28276 This work marks a major step for
- Exciting news on GR00T: NVIDIA announces our first open humanoid robot platform, featuring Unitree H2 Plus and Sharpa hands, to accelerate academic research and facilitate cross-institutional collaboration. R&D in humanoid robotics needs broader participation. Open science isNVIDIA announces the first open humanoid robot reference design built for robotics research. The NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot combines the @UnitreeRobotics H2 humanoid robot, @SharpaRobotics Wave five-fingered hands for dexterous manipulation, Jetson Thor onboard
- I will be in Vienna in two weeks to give a keynote at #ICRA2026. I'll share our recent progress on building generalist humanoid robots and show some of the latest results. Check out my talk on June 3: 2026.ieee-icra.org/program/keynot…
- We've just open-sourced the SONIC training code, the training data, the algorithms used to generate the data, and more to come. You now have the full recipe for building SONIC whole-body controllers for your own humanoids. Enjoy! Code: github.com/NVlabs/GR00T-W… Web Demo:SONIC is now open-source! Generalist whole-body teleoperation for EVERYONE! Our team has long been building comprehensive pipelines for whole-body control, kinematic planner, and teleoperation, and they will all be shared. This will be a continuous update; inference code +





