NVIDIA GR00T 2: open robot model claims 95% task success with five demos
NVIDIA introduced GR00T 2, an open world action model for robot manipulation built on Cosmos, on Nov. 9 at the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) in Austin. NVIDIA says training data included 100,000 hours of its open human egocentric data. In NVIDIA's own evaluation it completed 40 of 50 tasks at least once with no task-specific demonstrations, and NVIDIA claims 71% average success across those tasks with one demonstration each and 95% with five.
Source: NVIDIA Blog: Practice Makes Precise, NVIDIA and partners at CoRL (Nov. 9, 2026)
Foxconn is applying GR00T 2 to factory automation for server manufacturing, Siemens is evaluating it and Nexuni is testing it for laundry handling. NVIDIA also highlighted Isaac Lab 3.0, released in late October, which it says reached up to 2.5 times the training throughput of Isaac Lab 2.3 with PhysX on a vision-based dexterity benchmark, plus new DexBench and VABAR benchmarks. These are company claims, not independent results.
Servospace take: who makes money
GR00T 2 is an open model, so NVIDIA is not selling it directly. It is selling the GPUs, simulation and robot computers that teams need to train and run it. The commercial test is whether few-demo training cuts the cost of setting up a robot on a new task, which is still a big part of what warehouse and factory integrators charge for. None of the named users has announced a production deployment yet: Foxconn says it is applying the model, Siemens is evaluating and Nexuni is testing. NVIDIA's 95% figure comes from its own 50-task evaluation, not a customer's pick rate or uptime, so buyers should ask for results on their own SKUs.
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- NVIDIA Blog: Practice Makes Precise, NVIDIA and partners at CoRL (Nov. 9, 2026)
- NVIDIA Developer Forums: Isaac Lab 3.0 now available (Oct. 29, 2026)
- NVIDIA: CoRL 2026 event page
- NVIDIA Robotics on X: GR00T 2 at CoRL
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