Summary

  • Nvidia has released its open-source pretrained foundation model, Isaac GROAT N1, to help robot makers create more human-like robots more quickly and easily.
  • It can be customised to perform specific tasks and is currently being used by several companies, including Boston Dynamics and Agility Robotics.
  • The dual-system architecture of the model reflects human cognition, with one system responsible for fast, intuitive actions and the other for slower, more reasoned thinking.
  • Developers can post-train the model using human-demonstration or simulation data to tailor its behaviour.
  • “The age of generalist robotics is here,” said Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang.
  • The model is available for download via Hugging Face and GitHub.

By Andrew Liszewski

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