NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1.7
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.

Evidence notes
- Uses an Action Cascade architecture combining a vision-language model for reasoning with a diffusion transformer for motor control.
- Supports local fine-tuning and real-world deployment of dexterous multi-step manipulation policies on humanoid platforms.
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.