Nvidia, Unitree and Sharpa unite to design humanoid robot that can perform ‘real work’

Nvidia has partnered with Chinese robotics champion Unitree Robotics and Singapore robotic hand maker Sharpa to release a new humanoid robot reference design to accelerate innovation in the global humanoid industry, the US chip giant’s CEO, Jensen Huang, announced on Monday.The new design, called H2+ or Isaac GR00T, will support industry-wide humanoid robotics research by streamlining the full development workflow for developers, including data collection, policy training and real-world deployment.“For agentic systems, robotic systems and physical AI, data is the hardest problem,” Huang said in a keynote speech delivered on Monday at the Computex conference in Taipei, Asia’s biggest tech expo.