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NVIDIA Develops SONIC Humanoid Control Model

NVIDIA researchers have developed SONIC, a single controller designed to reproduce a broad range of full-body humanoid movements, humanoid.guide reported on September 11, 2026.

What happened

According to humanoid.guide, SONIC is a model designed to handle multiple movements without splitting them into separate control policies. It was described in a peer-reviewed paper in Science Robotics. The article reported that the researchers trained it on more than 100 million frames of human motion.

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Translated from the Japanese original: /news/nvidia-sonic-wo-mochiita-hanyou-hyuumanoido-dousa-seigyo-no-5d6715. The Japanese version is authoritative if they differ.