NVIDIA's SONIC Humanoid Control Research Published in Science

zhengyiluo · x · 2026-08-13

NVIDIA's Research team had their SONIC system published in Science. Built by the robotics division, SONIC demonstrates scaling motion tracking to achieve natural and robust whole-body control for humanoid robots.

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