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NVIDIA Announces Expansion of the Isaac Open Robot Development Platform

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On October 21, 2026, NVIDIA announced at GTC Berlin the expansion of the Isaac open robotics development platform, adding a reference humanoid robot, datasets, and a runtime, and updating the robot learning framework. On the same day, Isaac Lab 3.0 became generally available, and the SimReady Central Library and the Human 1M dataset went live on Hugging Face. Agile Robots' Agile ONE SN, based on Isaac GR00T and Jetson Thor, stands 1.40 meters tall with 31 degrees of freedom and is planned for launch in early 2027. According to a report the same day, NVIDIA also launched the SimReady Central open 3D asset library on Hugging Face; the assets are in OpenUSD format with simulation attributes such as mass, collision geometry, and friction, and developers and AI agents can use NVIDIA USD Search to retrieve assets in natural language and assemble them into Isaac Sim scenes. The platform expansion has now been implemented with the above releases.

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Oct 23

  1. Securities Times

    NVIDIA GTC and Tesla Earnings Converge as A-share AI Narrative Enters Industry Verification Window

    NVIDIA's GTC Berlin conference and Tesla's Q3 earnings call landed at the same time, with the Wind Artificial Intelligence Concept Index rising more than 2% cumulatively since October 19. NVIDIA unveiled the DSX POD reference design, saying AI factory deployment cycles could be shortened from about six months to 14 days, and released the Agile ONE SN humanoid robot platform with 31 degrees of freedom, expected to launch in 2027. Tesla plans to expand its Robotaxi service in Dallas next month, and Optimus is expected to be delivered to external companies by the end of 2027.

Oct 22

  1. East Money

    How to Hedge Against AI Risks? ICBC and CCB Both Hit Record Highs | Equity Market Daily

    CICC proposes using dividend assets as a foundation and increasing allocations to high-dividend stocks and gold to hedge against AI volatility, while Huatai Securities believes value strategies are still expected to outperform the CSI 800. ICBC and CCB share prices hit record highs again, with the banking sector driven by the launch of interim dividends and passive fund inflows; in 1H26, listed banks' revenue and net profit attributable to parent company grew 7.4% and 3.0% year-on-year. Nvidia upgraded its Isaac general-purpose robot development platform, and Tesla's Optimus plans to install AI5 chips in April next year and begin external deliveries by the end of the year.

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    NVIDIA and Agile Robots Launch Humanoid Robot Reference Platform Agile ONE SN, Expected to Hit the Market in Early 2027

    NVIDIA and Agile Robots jointly launched the humanoid robot reference platform Agile ONE SN during the GTC conference in Berlin, targeting research institutions and developers, with an expected market launch in early 2027. The platform is based on NVIDIA's Isaac GR00T development platform and is equipped with the Jetson Thor onboard computing system, integrating data collection, simulation, training, validation, and deployment into a unified workflow; NVIDIA says it can shorten development environment setup time from weeks to days. In terms of hardware, the platform is about 1.4 meters tall, with 31 degrees of freedom in the body, equipped with two five-fingered tactile dexterous hands each with 20 degrees of freedom, a maximum single-arm payload of 3 kilograms, and integrated sensors including head and wrist cameras and LiDAR; the software comes preinstalled with the GR00T 1.7 open vision-language-action model and a whole-body control system, and skills and data developed on Agile ONE SN can later be transferred to the full-size humanoid robot Agile ONE for industrial applications. During the same period, NVIDIA also launched the Isaac OS runtime framework, officially released Isaac Lab 3.0, and provided more than 2,000 robot and factory assets that can be used directly for simulation.

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  4. SiliconANGLE

    Nvidia unveils AI reference architectures and developer tools including DSX POD at GTC Berlin

    At GTC Berlin, Nvidia unveiled the DSX POD data center reference architecture, which integrates Rubin GPUs, Vera CPUs, networking, cooling, and power distribution into a container; the company estimates it can shorten hardware deployment time from six months to 14 days, with the first systems expected to ship early next year. It also introduced a reference architecture for the OpenShell agent toolkit, supporting operation on edge DGX Station, DGX Spark, and laptops equipped with RTX Spark. On the robotics side, it updated the Isaac simulator API and presented three template workflows for customizing GR00T; the Agile ONE SN humanoid robot based on GR00T was also unveiled the same day.

Oct 21

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  3. ZhidongxiSelected

    NVIDIA releases DSX full-stack AI factory architecture and DSX POD container

    At the GTC conference in Berlin, NVIDIA released the DSX full-stack AI factory reference architecture and the DSX POD compute container; the latter pre-installs 7 Vera Rubin NVL72 liquid-cooled racks into a container, ready to plug and play upon arrival on site. Jensen Huang said that adopting this solution can compress the time from compute arriving on site to going into production from 4-5 months to about 1 month, while NVIDIA's press release said partners can shorten deployment time from 6 months to as short as 14 days. The conference also introduced the OpenShell secure agent reference architecture, the Nemotron Retriever retrieval model series, the Kumo structured data prediction model series, and, in collaboration with Agile, the Agile ONE SN humanoid robot reference design; the robot itself will be available in early 2027.

  4. Wallstreetcn

    NVIDIA Releases DSX Pod and OpenShell at GTC Berlin; Jensen Huang Calls on All European Industries to Embrace AI

    At the GTC conference in Berlin, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang released new products including the DSX Pod modular AI factory reference design based on the Vera Rubin architecture, the OpenShell agent security architecture, and a humanoid robot reference platform, and called on all European industries to adopt AI. DSX Pod moves rack integration, cabling, and testing to the factory, shortening on-site deployment time from months to weeks, and is planned for global delivery in early 2027 with partners including Dell, HPE, and Lenovo. OpenShell is open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 license and restricts the resources agents can access through sandboxing and policy enforcement; Anthropic is working with NVIDIA to develop the Claude OpenShell agent. NVIDIA says it has invested nearly $10 billion in Europe over the past year and established more than 12,000 partnerships.

  5. Hugging FaceFirst-party

    NVIDIA Releases SimReady Central, an Open Library of Simulation-Ready 3D Assets, on Hugging Face

    NVIDIA has launched SimReady Central on Hugging Face, an open 3D asset library for robot and AI factory simulation. The assets are in OpenUSD format with simulation attributes such as mass, collision geometry, and friction. OEMs can use the SimReady Central submission skill to validate and submit CAD equipment models according to the SimReady configuration, while developers and AI agents can use NVIDIA USD Search to retrieve assets in natural language and assemble them into Isaac Sim scenes. The article uses a pick-and-place scenario with a FANUC robotic arm equipped with a Robotiq gripper and an AI factory layout comparison as examples to demonstrate the workflow of generating scene assembly and validation code with GPT-6 Astra.

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  7. Sina Tech

    NVIDIA Expands Isaac Open-Source Robotics Platform, Unveils Humanoid Robot Reference Design Agile ONE SN and Isaac Lab 3.0

    NVIDIA announced a major expansion of its open-source robotics development platform NVIDIA Isaac, adding humanoid robot reference designs, accompanying datasets, and runtime, and upgrading its robot learning framework. The Agile ONE SN released by Agile Robots comes pre-installed with Isaac GR00T and is equipped with Jetson Thor; it stands 1.4 meters tall, has 31 degrees of freedom, and is expected to launch in early 2027. Isaac Lab 3.0 is officially live, the SimReady asset library and the Human 1M dataset are now available on Hugging Face, and the full dataset is open only to Cosmos Coalition partners.

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