- Published on March 19, 2024
- In Deep Tech
How NVIDIA’s Project GR00T is Accelerating Humanoid Robots
NVIDIA, a powerhouse in accelerated computing, now aims to redefine humanoid robotics with its innovative Project GR00T.
Image by Nikhil Kumar
- By Siddharth Jindal
Thanks to NVIDIA, the era of humanoids becoming a reality is not far. At the highly-anticipated NVIDIA GTC event, with some unexpected showmanship, NVIDIA chief Jensen Huang announced Project GR00T, a general-purpose foundation model for humanoid robots.
Robots powered by GR00T, short for Generalist Robot 00 Technology, are engineered to understand natural language and mimic human movements by observing actions. This allows them to quickly learn coordination, dexterity, and other skills required to navigate, adapt, and interact effectively in the real world.
The highlight of the keynote was Huang posing with nine humanoids about the same size as him. While wrapping up his keynote, he was accompanied by Orange and the infamous Green BDX robots from Disney Research, which kept interrup
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Siddharth Jindal
Siddharth is a media graduate who loves to explore tech through journalism and putting forward ideas worth pondering about in the era of artificial intelligence.
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