NVIDIA open-sources GR00T 2 robot model running real dexterous chem lab demos
EricBuess · x · 2026-11-11
NVIDIA introduced GR00T 2, its most advanced open "System One" robotics model, running fully onboard and untethered with all weights released. Key features: long-horizon dexterous manipulation and whole-body control chained over 20+ steps and 5+ minutes (e.g., end-to-end chemistry lab experiments or model airplane assembly); X-Adapt for zero-shot transfer from human wearables/simulation to diverse real robots; unified cognition with frontier-agent integration for physical reasoning, error recovery, and safety monitoring. DrJimFan launched a video series with uncut, 1x-speed footage of GR00T 2 controlling real dexterous hands performing a chemistry experiment and cleaning up — explicitly avoiding the industry's usual 4x/8x speed-up labels.
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