Jetson Thor
Jetson Thor is NVIDIA edge-AI computer platform for physical robotics and humanoids. It provides high-performance onboard compute for running vision-language-action models, perception, planning and real-time AI inference on robots and autonomous machines.
Facts
- Company: NVIDIA
- Product type: Component
- Status: Commercial
- Website: https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/jetson-thor
Market context
Jetson Thor is NVIDIA's next-generation robotics compute platform, designed specifically for humanoid and advanced autonomous systems.
- Target environment: Humanoids, mobile robots, industrial robots and edge robotics systems.
- Workflow context: On-robot AI inference, perception, control, foundation-model execution and edge compute.
- Customer context: Robot builders and manufacturers needing embedded AI compute.
- Deployment model: Compute module and developer platform sold into robotics hardware programs.
- Commercial maturity: Commercial NVIDIA robotics compute platform.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on power envelope, thermal design, software integration and robot production timelines.
- Market position: Robotics compute layer beneath humanoids, AMRs and industrial robots; not a finished robot platform.
- Adjacent products: Project GR00T, Isaac, edge AI compute modules
Workflow
On-robot AI inference, perception, control, foundation-model execution and edge compute.
Capability
Edge AI inference
Deployment environment
Humanoids, mobile robots, industrial robots and edge robotics systems.
Specifications
- Architecture: NVIDIA Blackwell GPU-based edge AI compute platform
- Deployment: Onboard physical-AI and humanoid robotics compute
- AI Performance: Up to 2070 TFLOPS FP4 sparse
- Gpu: 2560-core NVIDIA Blackwell architecture GPU with fifth-generation Tensor Cores and MIG
- Cpu: 14-core Arm Neoverse-V3AE 64-bit CPU
- Cpu Max Frequency: 2.6 GHz
- Memory: 128 GB 256-bit LPDDR5X
- Memory Bandwidth: 273 GB/s
- Storage: 1 TB NVMe M.2 Key M slot on developer kit; module supports NVMe through PCIe and SSD through USB 3.2
- Msrp: Jetson AGX Thor Developer Kit $3,499.00; NVIDIA Marketplace page marked out of stock USD
- Camera Io: HSB camera via QSFP slot, USB camera, up to 20 cameras via HSB, up to 6 cameras through 16 lanes MIPI CSI-2, up to 32 cameras using virtual channels
- Networking: Developer kit: 1x 5GbE RJ45 and 1x QSFP28 (4x 25GbE); T5000 module: 4x 25GbE
- Usb: Developer kit: 2x USB-A 3.2 Gen2 and 2x USB-C 3.1
- Pcie: Developer kit: M.2 Key M x4 PCIe Gen5 and M.2 Key E x1 PCIe Gen5
- Display: Developer kit: HDMI 2.0b and DisplayPort 1.4a
- Power Range: 40 W to 130 W
- Mechanical: Developer kit: 243.19 x 112.40 x 56.88 mm; module: 100 x 87 mm with 699-pin B2B connector
- Software Stack: NVIDIA Isaac platform, GR00T workflows, Holoscan sensor processing and Jetson Linux ecosystem
Tags
- Peer Group: Robot Compute
- Workflow: Robot Perception
- Capability: Edge AI inference
- Customer Segment: Manufacturer
- Stack Layer: Compute Control Layer
- Market Signal: Supply-chain enabler
Articles
- 2026-06-22 - Article - The Humanoid Bottleneck Is Leaving the Cage
Timeline / Research
- 2026-06-01 - Research Publication - NVIDIA announces Isaac GR00T open reference humanoid for academic research - Announces an open humanoid reference design combining a Unitree H2 Plus body, Sharpa tactile hands, Jetson…
- 2026-05-25 - Research Publication - FOUND-IT: Foundation-model-first Task-driven 3D Scene Graphs with Granularity on Demand - We present the first approach to build hierarchical task-driven 3D scene graphs of arbitrary…
- 2026-05-08 - Research Publication - 2.5-D Decomposition for LLM-Based Spatial Construction - Autonomous systems that build structures from natural-language instructions need reliable spatial reasoning, yet large languag…
- 2026-01-28 - Research Publication - Shallow-π: Knowledge Distillation for Flow-based VLAs - The growing demand for real-time robotic deployment necessitates fast and on-device inference for vision-language-action (VLA)…
- 2026-01-05 - Product Launch - NVIDIA Releases Jetson T4000 Module and New Physical AI Models at CES - • NVIDIA announced the Jetson T4000 module, powered by the Blackwell architecture, offering four times greater energy…
- 2025-08-25 - Product Launch - NVIDIA's Jetson AGX Thor now available for robotics applications - • NVIDIA announced the general availability of the Jetson AGX Thor developer kit and production modules, designed for phys…
- 2024-03-18 - Product Launch - NVIDIA introduces Jetson Thor robotics compute platform - NVIDIA unveiled Jetson Thor as a high-performance embedded compute platform designed specifically for humanoid robots and advanced…
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