NVIDIA advances its GROOT N1 Model as a Development Base for Future Home and Industrial Robots

We should definitely talk about the technological revolution we are facing. Yes, it is a fact at this point, because with the emergence of AI, this catalyst has allowed not one, but several sciences to develop at great speed. This acceleration plunges us into a world that is constantly changing, and to which we must adapt almost by force, as each technology is replaced by another, or acquires the inclusion of artificial intelligence in its systems.

Probably at this point we are wondering if it has to do with previous revolutions, such as the industrial revolution at various stages of human history, in which inventions have been made that have drastically changed the lives of people through a relatively positive impact. Whether we are talking about the steam engine, the invention of the fuel engine, automation followed by electronics and then computing, these are things that point us to a new era.

As a catalyst AI is accelerating the development of all kinds of technologies. These include blockchain, robotics, AI agents, but also affect various disciplines that have to do with mathematics, exact sciences, which in turn somehow end up deriving to highly specialized fields, such as nanotechnology, medicine, biology, and other branches of expertise. This makes a lot of sense if we start from the fact that artificial intelligence increasingly manages to acquire a large cloud of knowledge; that is, it feeds on the information available worldwide.

One thing we are seeing a lot of is the interest in robotics. But it is not about interest per se, it is already a developing practice. Several companies have invested sums that could be considered very large, reflecting the possibility of carrying out the creation and implementation of prototypes devised by specialists carefully chosen through rigorous selection processes; mostly engineers. The company NVIDIA, led by Jensen Huang, is probably a great technological representative.

From March 17-21, an AI conference is taking place in San Jose, CA. At this event, everything is focused on how artificial intelligence can completely change the perspective of how we approach life, impacting science, computing, robotics, process automation and much more.

We have seen how many companies have developed their own versions of robots, first through prototypes. So has NVIDIA with its Project Groot, which has now evolved into a foundational model called Isaac GROOT N1, which is a model that allows some flexibility by being open source, suggesting that it can be customized into humanoid robots for domestic or industrial uses.

Although what has been seen so far presents certain doubts due to the somewhat reduced or inflexible mobility, it is a matter of time for robotics to evolve frantically, either through a large amount of data with which to train, as well as mechanics that achieve a mobility similar to that of human beings. The operations performed by these robots will be truly fluid in the future.

These robots acquire “tons” of information. In fact, NVIDIA has offered a large dataset that reaches the incredible figure of 15 TB, in which you can find more than 320 thousand trajectories for robotic training purposes, as well as a thousand scenarios which will serve to emulate a real space; these data are available in Hugging Face. The company has also provided information for developers to start working. This is technical information through files that can be found on GitHub.

It is striking that the companies find similarities in their goals, so it is not too far-fetched to think that at some point they will seek to cooperate. In fact, in the presentation where the CEO of NVIDIA has impressed with the advances in robotics, the appearance of a Boston Dynamics robot (Atlas), perhaps with a slight change of appearance, can be visualized in the conference. And is that if NVIDIA manages to perfect the platforms on which the models can learn and develop, there will be a great demand from other companies that need to perfect the skills of their robots. Another robot that is based on Isaac GROOT N1 is the humanoid robot from the company 1X, which goes by the name of NEO Gamma.

As a peculiar feature, GROOT N1 is a foundational model that can interpret a dual thinking, i.e., it has an architecture that tries to resemble human cognitive processes. For this reason, by means of system 1, it will seek to accurately trigger human reflexes and intuition through a “fast thinking action model”. On the other hand, system 2 is based on a “slow thinking model”, which will seek to take the necessary time to reason with respect to its environment and deduce the best way to satisfy its objectives after the given instructions.

There is no doubt that many companies are starting to invest seriously in this, which is definitely part of the future. But as we mentioned earlier, we should also mention that we are going through a process of acceleration, so everything we can imagine is probably closer than we think.