An Introduction to Building Humanoid Robots

Dive into this comprehensive conference talk from NVIDIA GTC 2025 exploring the development of humanoid robots and the Isaac GR00T platform. Learn how developers are creating more intelligent, responsive, and efficient humanoid robots that can transform industries including manufacturing, healthcare, and retail. The session breaks down the four key components of the Isaac GR00T platform: robot foundation models for cognition and control, simulation frameworks built on NVIDIA Omniverse and Cosmos, data pipelines for generating synthetic data and environments, and the Jetson AGX Thor supercomputer that powers these robots. Four NVIDIA experts—Jim Fan, Leela Karumbunathan, Yan Chang, and Yuke Zhu—present concrete use cases and examples demonstrating the latest advancements in each pillar of this revolutionary platform developed by NVIDIA Research and Engineering.