Mobile robotics experts Boston Dynamics have announced their expanded collaboration with NVIDIA to develop the next generation of AI-powered humanoid robots. The Atlas robot, Boston Dynamics’ electric humanoid platform, is at the forefront of this work and now incorporates NVIDIA’s Jetson Thor computing platform as part of an early adoption of the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T framework.
The Jetson Thor system provides the high-performance, compact compute capability needed to enable complex multimodal AI workloads. With it, Atlas can execute advanced perception, manipulation, and locomotion algorithms in real time, integrated directly with Boston Dynamics’ proprietary whole-body and manipulation controllers.
“Robots are the bridge between simulation and the real world,” said Aaron Saunders, Chief Technology Officer at Boston Dynamics. “With the current generation of our electric Atlas, we are building the world’s most capable humanoid, and collaborating with NVIDIA to integrate Jetson Thor means that robot now has the highest performance compute platform behind it. Isaac lab is allowing us to develop state of the art AI capabilities, and the early results are exciting.”
The collaboration also extends to using Isaac Lab, NVIDIA’s modular framework for robot learning in simulated environments. Built on Isaac Sim and NVIDIA Omniverse, Isaac Lab allows developers at Boston Dynamics and its research partners to make rapid progress on training AI policies for dexterous manipulation and advanced locomotion.
Together, the companies are also defining platform-level standards for functional safety, cybersecurity, and key vision and learning pipelines that leverage NVIDIA’s training and simulation ecosystem.
Beyond the humanoid platform, Boston Dynamics continues to advance the AI capabilities of its broader robotic portfolio. New reinforcement learning (RL) tools are enhancing mobility for the Spot quadruped platform, while foundation models are enabling it to detect and avoid increasingly complex real-world hazards. The company’s Orbit fleet management software also continues to evolve with new AI-driven analytics for multi-robot coordination and deployment.
About Boston Dynamics
Boston Dynamics is a leading developer of advanced mobile robotic systems designed to support dynamic environments in industries such as manufacturing, construction, public safety, and logistics. Its portfolio includes Spot®, a quadruped inspection robot; Stretch®, a box-handling logistics robot; and Atlas®, an electric humanoid platform in active development.
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