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GEAR (Generalist Embodied Agent Research)

United States

GEAR's demos anchor NVIDIA's Physical AGI narrative at GTC keynotes; the group also produced Eureka, an LLM-driven reward design method, and the open-ended agent Voyager.

Updated 2026-07-10 · Last verified 2026-07-10

AffiliationNVIDIA Corporation
CountryUS
TypeCorporate
Research areashumanoid foundation models, VLA, world models, sim2real, generalist embodied agents
Flagship contributionReleased Isaac GR00T N1, the first open foundation model for generalist humanoid robot reasoning and skills, with weights published on Hugging Face.
Key peopleJim Fan (Director of AI, Distinguished Scientist, co-lead de GEAR), Yuke Zhu (co-lead de GEAR, professeur UT Austin)
Open outputsPoids d'Isaac GR00T-N1-2B (Hugging Face, licence NVIDIA Open Model), datasets NVIDIA Physical AI, code d'Eureka, Voyager, VIMA et MineDojo sur GitHub.

Sources : NVIDIA Research (2026-07)NVIDIA Newsroom (2025-03)Hugging Face (2025-03)

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