NVIDIA releases GEAR-SONIC whole-body control stack for humanoid robots
Evidence notes
- 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 to support natural locomotion, whole-body movement, VR teleoperation, and higher-level humanoid planning.
- SONIC complements VLA manipulation models with the whole-body control layer needed for humanoid deployment.
Company context
NVIDIA is a compute and AI infrastructure company providing the simulation, training, edge-compute and model platforms used across modern robotics. Its stack includes tools for robot learning, digital twins, perception and on-device inference.