NVIDIA Expands Isaac Platform with Humanoid Robot Reference and Training Tools

On October 21, 2026, NVIDIA announced at the GTC conference in Berlin an expansion of its open Isaac robotics development platform, adding a humanoid robot reference platform, datasets, runtime frameworks, and robot learning tools.

The update spans data generation, model training, simulation validation, and deployment, aiming to accelerate general-purpose robot development. The Isaac platform is NVIDIA's software and hardware toolkit for robotics development, with the new humanoid robot reference offering a standardized foundation and the datasets and learning tools supporting training and simulation improvements.