CAIP study evaluates dual Sharpa Wave hands across six manipulation tasks - 2026-06-15 - Research Publication - The setup paired Dexmate Vega arms with two 22-DoF Wave hands, a ZED X Mini head camera and two ZED X One wrist cameras. CAIP used 200 demonstrations per task, with 150 for pouring, and exceeded the strongest reported… - source: arxiv.org
Dual-critic humanoid loco-manipulation paper trains Unitree G1 policies in NVIDIA Isaac Lab - 2026-06-10 - Research Publication - The paper compares unified and dual critic architectures for humanoid loco-manipulation reinforcement learning. Experiments train Unitree G1 policies through a 13-level curriculum in NVIDIA Isaac Lab. - source: arxiv.org
Anchor Lab Dataset: Real-World Measurements for Sim-to-Real Calibration - 2026-06-05 - Research Publication - Releases a Hugging Face robotics dataset for grounding simulation calibration in real physical measurements. Supports zero-shot sim-to-real workflows by providing hardware measurement data for dynamics and calibration… - source: huggingface.co
GR00T-VisualSim2Real: Visual Sim-to-Real at Scale for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation - 2026-04-30 - Research Publication - Open-source pipeline for visual sim-to-real transfer of humanoid locomotion and manipulation skills. Includes training code, simulation assets, and workflows for learning behaviors such as walking and object interaction.… - source: github.com
NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1.7 - 2026-04-17 - Research Publication - Released the GR00T N1.7 family of open, commercially licensed vision-language-action models for humanoid robots, including a 3B-parameter variant with public Hugging Face and GitHub access. Uses an Action Cascade… - source: huggingface.co
PriPG-RL paper validates planner-guided reinforcement learning with NVIDIA Isaac Lab - 2026-04-09 - Research Publication - PriPG-RL combines privileged planner guidance with reinforcement learning for partially observable systems with anytime-feasible MPC. The authors validate the method in NVIDIA Isaac Lab and deploy it on a real Unitree Go2… - source: arxiv.org
Vision-based omnidirectional-navigation paper trains teacher policy in NVIDIA Isaac Lab - 2026-03-02 - Research Publication - The paper presents a teacher-student approach for vision-based mobile robot navigation using monocular depth estimation. A teacher policy is trained with PPO in NVIDIA Isaac Lab using privileged 2D LiDAR observations… - source: arxiv.org
NVIDIA releases GEAR-SONIC whole-body control stack for humanoid robots - 2026-02-19 - Research Publication - NVIDIA released GEAR-SONIC through the GR00T Whole-Body Control repository as a generalist humanoid whole-body controller. The official repository describes SONIC as using motion tracking over large-scale human motion data… - source: github.com
Online diffusion-policy RL review benchmarks algorithms on NVIDIA Isaac Lab tasks - 2026-01-05 - Research Publication - The review organizes online diffusion policy reinforcement-learning algorithms by policy-improvement mechanism. The paper evaluates representative algorithms on a unified NVIDIA Isaac Lab benchmark covering 12 robotic tasks. - source: arxiv.org
NVIDIA publishes GR00T N1.6 for long-horizon humanoid reasoning and dexterity - 2025-12-15 - Research Publication - NVIDIA Research published GR00T N1.6 as an improved foundation model for generalist humanoid robots. The official page describes more complex real-world experiments requiring long-horizon reasoning, dexterity, and… - source: research.nvidia.com
APIARY Astrobee paper trains free-flyer control policy in NVIDIA Isaac Lab - 2025-12-03 - Research Publication - The APIARY paper describes reinforcement-learning control for autonomous planning in-space assembly using the International Space Station Astrobee platform. A six-degree-of-freedom control policy is trained with PPO in… - source: arxiv.org
Hugging Face integrates NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1.5 into LeRobot - 2025-10-28 - Research Publication - Hugging Face announced that NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1.5 could be post-trained and evaluated directly through LeRobot. The integration was framed as a way to make open-source customization and deployment of robot foundation… - source: huggingface.co
NVIDIA publishes GR00T N1.5 with improved language following and humanoid generalization - 2025-06-11 - Research Publication - NVIDIA Research published GR00T N1.5 as an upgraded open foundation model for generalist humanoid robots. The official page reports improved simulated benchmark performance, stronger language following on real Fourier GR-1… - source: research.nvidia.com
The Humanoid Bottleneck Is Leaving the Cage - 2026-06-22 - NVIDIA's Halos launch puts safety infrastructure around physical AI deployment. Agility's Digit is the first humanoid in the system, and the reason why matters more than the platform itself.