NVIDIA Announces Open Platform “Isaac GR00T” for Humanoid Robot Development

On July 7, 2026, NVIDIA announced the Isaac GR00T Development Platform, an open-source platform that integrates the entire humanoid robot development process. It supports an end-to-end workflow from data collection through model training, evaluation and deployment, and includes the VLA model GR00T 1.7, released under the Apache 2.0 license.

For humanoid developers, a key benefit is the ability to handle data collection, model training, evaluation and deployment in a single workflow. For development teams that have struggled to connect separate tools, GR00T 1.7, released under Apache 2.0, can serve as a starting point for tailoring models to specific robot platforms and tasks.