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NVIDIA Isaac adds reference humanoid, Isaac Lab 3.0

At GTC Berlin, NVIDIA expanded its Isaac robotics platform with the Agile ONE SN reference humanoid, general availability of Isaac Lab 3.0 and the open source Isaac OS runtime.

By: Mikola Máté Patrik · · 2 min read

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Updated: October 21, 2026, 13:45 (Budapest)

What changed?

On October 21 at GTC Berlin, NVIDIA expanded the Isaac open robotics development platform (NVIDIA Newsroom). The goal is one connected path from data collection to software running on a real robot.

Agile ONE SN reference humanoid

Agile Robots introduced Agile ONE SN, a full-stack reference humanoid preconfigured with Isaac GR00T and Jetson Thor onboard compute. Key specs:

  • 1.40 meters tall, 40 kilograms, 31 degrees of freedom, 3-kilogram payload per arm.
  • Two WUJI Hand 2 hands, each with 20 degrees of freedom, 1 kHz force control and tactile sensing.
  • Jetson Thor with 2,070 FP4 teraflops and 128 GB of unified memory.
  • Planned integration with the Halos robot safety system.

It is scheduled for early 2027. The maker says it cuts researcher setup time from weeks to days, with interest from Stanford and ETH Zurich.

Developer updates

  • Isaac Lab 3.0 is generally available: an open source, agent-ready robot learning framework with multi-GPU training and the Newton and PhysX physics engines.
  • Isaac OS is an open source runtime built on Holoscan that connects AI, sensors, controls and robot hardware with deterministic real-time performance.
  • Three open reference workflows for DGX Station: refining GR00T 1.7 with reinforcement learning, training dexterous manipulation in Isaac Lab, and post-training Cosmos world models for synthetic data.
  • SimReady Central is now free and ungated on Hugging Face: 2,000+ OpenUSD assets with simulation properties (collision geometry, mass, friction, joints), including arms and grippers from FANUC, Universal Robots, Franka, Robotiq and Comau, and AI factory racks and cooling from Vertiv, searchable in natural language via NVIDIA USD Search. The Human 1M Dataset also launched; its full version is limited to Cosmos Coalition partners.

Why it matters

Integration is one of the biggest time sinks in humanoid research, with simulation, training and deployment spread across separate tools. A ready reference robot gives labs a shared baseline. There is no price yet, and the setup-time claim comes from the vendor.

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