Isaac GR00T
NVIDIAIsaac GR00T is NVIDIA's open foundation model line for generalist robots, from GR00T N1 to N1.7. Current releases are three-billion-parameter vision-language-action models pretrained across robot embodiments for humanoid and bimanual manipulation, published with the code to train them and a guide to fine-tuning one onto a new robot.
Openness
3 medium confidence- weights
- open(every N1.7 checkpoint is ungated safetensors on the Hub
- data
- partial(the N1.7 task fine-tunes train on public benchmark sets (Bridge, Fractal, DROID, LIBERO)
- code
- open(Apache-2.0 training and fine-tuning code in the repository)
- license
- NVIDIA-Open-Model-License(every N1.7 checkpoint: the base, GR00T-H-N1.7 and the task fine-tunes)
- superseded
- noncommercial(GR00T-H (the N1.6 surgical release) and the N1.5 Assemble_Trocar fine-tune are under the NVIDIA OneWay Noncommercial License
Every checkpoint in the current N1.7 release, the humanoid GR00T-H-N1.7 included, can be used commercially under NVIDIA's Open Model License, and the training code is Apache-2.0. The pretraining mixture is not released. The older N1.6 GR00T-H and an N1.5 surgical fine-tune are still on the Hub under a non-commercial license; they belong to earlier releases and do not set the score.
- https://developer.download.nvidia.com/licenses/NVIDIA-OneWay-Noncommercial-License-22Mar2022.pdf recorded 2026-09-26
NVIDIA OneWay Noncommercial License, 3.3 Use Limitation: "The Work and any derivative works thereof only may be used or intended for use non-commercially", meaning for research or evaluation.
- https://huggingface.co/api/models?author=nvidia&search=GR00T-N1&sort=createdAt&direction=-1&limit=50 recorded 2026-09-27
Hub listing newest first: GR00T-N1.7-3B created 2026-02-25, the N1.7 LIBERO, DROID and SimplerEnv fine-tunes 2026-03-17, GR00T-N1.7-ApplePnP-V1 2026-05-20, GR00T-H-N1.7 2026-05-30; GR00T-N1.5-3B_Assemble_Trocar 2026-05-27 carries an N1.5 name; nothing newer than N1.7.
- https://huggingface.co/api/models/nvidia/Cosmos-Reason2-2B recorded 2026-09-27
Hub API for nvidia/Cosmos-Reason2-2B, the GR00T N1.7 backbone: gated "auto"; license_name nvidia-open-model-license.
- https://huggingface.co/api/models/nvidia/GR00T-N1.7-3B recorded 2026-09-27
Hub API for nvidia/GR00T-N1.7-3B: gated false; safetensors weight files in siblings.
- https://huggingface.co/datasets/nvidia/PhysicalAI-Robotics-GR00T-X-Embodiment-Sim/raw/main/README.md recorded 2026-09-26
PhysicalAI-Robotics-GR00T-X-Embodiment-Sim card: "We provide a set of datasets used for post-training of GR00T N1", CC-BY-4.0.
- https://huggingface.co/nvidia/GR00T-H-N1.7/raw/main/README.md recorded 2026-09-27
GR00T-H-N1.7 card: license_name nvidia-open-model-license, base_model nvidia/GR00T-N1.7-3B; "It builds on the GR00T N1.7 VLA foundation"; "This model is ready for commercial use."
- https://huggingface.co/nvidia/GR00T-H/raw/main/README.md recorded 2026-09-27
GR00T-H card, history: "This is the N1.6 non-commercially usable version of GR00T-H. Please see GR00T-H-N1.7 for the newer and commercially usable version"; license_link NVIDIA-OneWay-Noncommercial-License-22Mar2022.pdf.
- https://huggingface.co/nvidia/GR00T-N1.5-3B_Assemble_Trocar/raw/main/README.md recorded 2026-09-27
GR00T-N1.5-3B_Assemble_Trocar card, history: developed based on GR00T N1.5; "This model is ready for non-commercial use"; governed by the NVIDIA-OneWay-Noncommercial-License-22Mar2022.pdf.
- https://huggingface.co/nvidia/GR00T-N1.7-3B/raw/main/README.md recorded 2026-09-27
GR00T-N1.7-3B card: "This model is released under the NVIDIA Open Model License Agreement" and "is ready for commercial/non-commercial use"; the family lists SimplerEnv Bridge, SimplerEnv Fractal, DROID and LIBERO post-trained models on public datasets; "Total number of datasets: 13" in the training mixture.
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NVIDIA/Isaac-GR00T/main/README.md recorded 2026-09-27
Isaac-GR00T README: "We just released GR00T N1.7 General Availability, the latest version of GR00T N1"; N1.6 and N1.5 listed as "Previous releases"; the checkpoint table lists GR00T-N1.7-3B and the LIBERO, DROID, SimplerEnv-Bridge and SimplerEnv-Fractal fine-tunes; the License section gives the code as Apache 2.0 and the model weights as the NVIDIA Open Model License; it says every GR00T checkpoint loads the gated Cosmos-Reason2-2B backbone on first use; launch_finetune.py for fine-tuning on a new embodiment.
- https://ungh.cc/repos/NVIDIA/Isaac-GR00T/files/main recorded 2026-09-26
Repository tree: gr00t/experiment/launch_train.py, launch_finetune.py, trainer.py and getting_started/finetune_new_embodiment.md.
- https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/agreements/enterprise-software/nvidia-open-model-license/ recorded 2026-09-26
NVIDIA Open Model License: "Models are commercially usable. You are free to create and distribute Derivative Models."
Adoption
3 medium confidenceHugging Face downloads summed over the declared GR00T checkpoints, most of them for the current N1.7 base model.
- https://huggingface.co/api/models?author=nvidia&search=GR00T&sort=downloads&limit=50&expand[]=downloads&expand[]=likes&expand[]=cardData&expand[]=lastModified&expand[]=gated recorded 2026-09-26
Hub listing author=nvidia search=GR00T: GR00T-N1.7-3B 125,319; GR00T-N1.6-3B 29,727; GR00T-H-N1.7 1,639; GR00T-N1.5-3B 1,358; GR00T-H 741; GR00T-N1-2B 463 downloads in 30 days.
Capability
4 medium confidenceGR00T is pretrained across robot bodies and aimed squarely at humanoids, with released data for bimanual arms, the GR1 humanoid and the Unitree G1, and a documented recipe for adapting it to a new robot. It has no separate reasoning and planning model of the kind Gemini Robotics pairs with its action model.
- https://huggingface.co/datasets/nvidia/PhysicalAI-Robotics-GR00T-X-Embodiment-Sim/raw/main/README.md recorded 2026-09-26
Post-training data card: cross-embodied bimanual manipulation, humanoid (GR1) tabletop manipulation, robot-arm kitchen manipulation and Unitree G1 loco-manipulation subsets.
- https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/NVIDIA%2FIsaac-GR00T recorded 2026-09-26
Repository record: "NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1.7 - A Foundation Model for Generalist Robots."
- https://ungh.cc/repos/NVIDIA/Isaac-GR00T/files/main recorded 2026-09-26
Repository tree includes getting_started/finetune_new_embodiment.md.
Verified 2026-09-26