At the recently launched GTC developers in the San Hos, the main attention was paid to artificial intelligence. However, against the background of new products for AI, the company also announced several significant initiatives in the field of robotics.
One of the main events was the presentation of the Project GR00T – a fundamental model for humanoid robots. NVIDIA also announced its participation as the main platinum member in Open Source Robotics Alliance, a new project of the open robotics fund aimed at supporting and developing Robot Operating System (ROS) – systems from open program libraries and tools for robotics.
Project GR00T (Generalist Robot 00 Technology) is the basis for creating specialized humanoid robots. According to the founder and general director of NVIDIA Jensen Juang, the development of fundamental models for humanoid robots is considered one of the most exciting tasks of modern AI. GR00T robots will be able to understand the natural language and imitate human movements, quickly learning coordination and actions for interaction with the real world.
NVIDIA also introduced the new Jetson Thor computing platform, optimized for performing complex tasks and safe interaction with people and machines. Jetson Thor uses the new generation of GPU on the architecture of Nvidia Blackwell and offers performance of 800 teraflops for launching multi-language generative AI models, in particular, GR00T.
As part of the announcements, the company also revealed information about the new Blackwell B200 graphic processor and announced the start of the Culitho reverse lithography tool in cooperation with TSMC and Synopsys.
In addition, the Open Source Robotics Foundation launched Open Source Robotics Alliance, a new project for the ROS community and support of the ROS community. NVIDIA, along with other platinum members (Intrinsic and Qualcomm) plays a key role in the initiative. OSRA is designed to ensure sustainable financing for the development of ROS, increase the participation of the community in development and management, while ensuring transparency and openness of processes.