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Isaac-GR00T

NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1.7 — an open foundation model for generalist robots, ready to fine-tune and deploy.

★ 8.2k stars⑂ 1.5k forksApache-2.0updated 2026-10
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// project facts

Project facts

Isaac-GR00T is an open-source ai agents project by NVIDIA (NVIDIA/Isaac-GR00T on GitHub). It has 8,173 GitHub stars and 1,486 forks, is released under the Apache-2.0 license, and was last updated on GitHub on 7 October 2026.

GitHub stars
8,173
Forks
1,486
License
Apache-2.0
Last updated on GitHub
7 October 2026
Category
AI Agents
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// how it works

How it works

  1. Clarify your goal

    Check the hardware requirements and your robot/dataset format (LeRobot-style datasets are used in the workflow), and install git-lfs before cloning since demo data uses it.

  2. Get the project

    Clone NVIDIA/Isaac-GR00T from GitHub (or use the install path in the run steps below) and skim its README for the parts relevant to your goal.

  3. Install and configure

    Clone with submodules, install with uv (or the pip alternative), and add the system GL libraries the README lists.

  4. Run your first task

    Run a documented inference or evaluation example with the demo data, then fine-tune on a small slice of your own dataset.

// features

Why people love it

Generalist robot foundation model

A pretrained vision-language-action model intended as a base for many robots and tasks, not a single-task policy.

Cosmos-Reason2-2B backbone

N1.7 replaces the older Eagle backbone with Cosmos-Reason2-2B (Qwen3-VL), encoding images at native aspect ratio without padding.

Expanded action space

State and action dimensions expand to 132 with an action horizon of 40, and the flow-matching DiT action head is updated for N1.7.

Multi-dataset fine-tuning

Fine-tune on multiple dataset paths at once with mixture weighting (ds_weights_alpha) for easier multi-source training.

Deployment export

Full-pipeline ONNX and TensorRT export, with hardened policy serving, rollout recording, evaluation and config validation.

Benchmarked openly

Documented results across RoboCasa (including GR1 tabletop tasks), SimplerEnv and real G1 robot evaluation.

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// run it

Run it yourself

  1. Clone the repository

    Get the source from the official GitHub repository for Isaac-GR00T.

    git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA/Isaac-GR00T.git
    cd Isaac-GR00T
  2. Clone with submodules

    Install git-lfs first (required for the demo data), then clone the repository with its submodules as the README directs.

    sudo apt install git-lfs && git lfs install
    git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/NVIDIA/Isaac-GR00T
  3. Install the package

    Install in editable mode with uv (the README's primary path) after cloning; a pip alternative is documented there too.

    uv pip install -e . --verbose  # pip alternative: pip install -e . — see README
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What you can build

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// faq

Questions, answered

Who maintains Isaac-GR00T?

NVIDIA, through the NVIDIA/Isaac-GR00T repository, with the product page at developer.nvidia.com/isaac/gr00t.

Is Isaac-GR00T free to use?

Yes — the project is open source under the Apache-2.0 license as recorded for this listing. See the license terms for any conditions on redistribution.

Does Isaac-GR00T need a paid API key?

The model and code are free under Apache-2.0 with no API key, but you need capable GPU hardware and your own robot demonstration data for meaningful fine-tuning.

How does GR00T compare to training a robot policy from scratch?

Training from scratch needs far more data and compute for basic competence. GR00T starts from a pretrained generalist model you fine-tune — you still need quality demonstrations and GPUs, but the starting point already understands scenes and language.

How do I get started with Isaac-GR00T?

Clone the repository (or use the documented installer), follow the install and configure steps on this page, and run the smallest real task first — run a documented inference or evaluation example with the demo data, then fine-tune on a small slice of your own dataset.

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