Nvidia Unveils Agile ONE SN Humanoid Platform at GTC Berlin

Nvidia has expanded its Isaac robotics platform at GTC Berlin, announcing the Agile ONE SN humanoid reference system alongside new simulation, training and deployment tools.

The headline hardware is Agile ONE SN, developed by German company Agile Robots. It is a full-stack platform for robotics research and development rather than a consumer product, combining the company’s Agile ONE S humanoid with Nvidia’s Jetson Thor computer and Isaac GR00T robot software.

Agile ONE SN stands 1.40 metres tall and weighs 40kg. Its body has 31 degrees of freedom, while its two five-fingered WUJI Hand 2 hands have 20 degrees of freedom each, tactile sensing and 1kHz force control. The robot also includes head and wrist cameras, lidar and inertial-measurement sensors.

Nvidia says Jetson Thor supplies up to 2,070 FP4 teraflops of compute and 128GB of unified memory. The company plans to integrate on-robot safety protocols with its Halos safety system.

Tools intended to shorten robot development

Alongside the humanoid platform, Nvidia made Isaac Lab 3.0 generally available. The open-source framework is designed for training and refining robot policies, with multi-GPU workflows and support for the Newton and PhysX physics engines.

The company also announced Isaac OS, an open-source runtime built on Holoscan that is intended to connect AI models, sensors, controls and robot hardware in real time. Its SimReady Central Library adds more than 2,000 simulation-ready robotics and factory assets, while the Human 1M Dataset supplies synchronised three-view video and 3D hand-tracking data for human activities.

“General-purpose robotics is advancing at extraordinary speed — the ChatGPT moment for robotics is fast approaching,” Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said.

Nvidia says the combined system can reduce a developer’s setup process from weeks to days by bringing simulation, training and deployment together. That is a company claim, however, and no independent test of the suggested time saving was identified.

Availability remains limited

Agile ONE SN is scheduled to become available in early 2027, although no precise launch date, price or UK sales channel has been confirmed. Nvidia’s Jetson AGX Thor developer kit is already sold separately; RS Online listed it at £4,330 excluding VAT, or £5,196 including VAT, but that is not a price for the humanoid robot.

The announcement marks a step beyond Nvidia’s earlier approach of offering separate robot components such as simulation tools, datasets, foundation models and computing hardware. Its previous humanoid reference design, announced in May, used a Unitree H2 Plus chassis and was due to be available in late 2026.