Isaac 0.5 Released: 36B Dynamic MoE Open-Weight Embodied Foundation Model
code_star · x · 2026-08-27
Perceptron Inc has released Isaac 0.5, a 36B parameter dynamic MoE (Mixture of Experts) open-weight embodied foundation model. It integrates multimodal video understanding, embodied reasoning, and robot control into a single sparse backbone. Key highlights from the technical report include the null-expert MoE, joint VLM data mixtures, and scaling laws for transfer learning from unlabeled video data. Weights are available now on Hugging Face.
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