NVIDIA's SONIC Hits Science Cover, Breakthrough in Humanoid Whole-Body Control
zhengyiluo · x · 2026-08-14
Developed by the NVIDIA team, the SONIC project is officially published in Science Robotics and featured on the front page of Science. The research demonstrates the immense potential of scaling motion tracking to achieve natural and robust whole-body control for humanoid robots. This milestone highlights humanoid control as one of the most important frontier stories in all of science right now. Both the paper and code have been open-sourced.
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