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Agile Robots unveils a 40 kilo humanoid with a Nvidia chip, due in early 2027
At Nvidia's GTC conference in Berlin, Germany's Agile Robots presented Agile ONE SN, a humanoid meant to serve as a common base for developers, according to the Chinese site GeekPark.
The robot weighs 40 kilograms and has 31 degrees of freedom. Each of its two five-fingered hands adds 20 more. It runs on a Jetson Thor chip and Nvidia's Isaac GR00T model. It is due for release in early 2027.
Nvidia remains cautious. The group acknowledges that developing a humanoid is still expensive, to the point that only well-funded companies can really take it on.
Combined with the new Isaac OS and Isaac Lab 3.0 tools, the platform is meant to cut the time researchers spend assembling and tuning a robot from several weeks to a few days. GeekPark stresses that this does not mean robots can already work reliably on a production line.
Update of 24 October: its two hands are WUJI Hand 2. They have tactile sensors and adjust their force 1,000 times a second (1 kHz). Agile Robots plans to add Nvidia's Halos safety features to the platform. According to engineering.com, Stanford University and ETH Zurich are among the institutions interested in this research system.
Sources
- 极客公园 GeekPark · geekpark.net
- Humanoid.guide · humanoid.guide
