The GTC 2024 Conference on March 19th, 2024 was a big carnival of AI technology and application! In addition to releasing the Blackwell B200 GUP with the strongest computing power, Nvidia CEO Huang Renxun showed his newly released robots and released the general basic large model for robots-GR00T project, which is the world's first general basic large model for robots. In this project, the robot driven by GR00T can understand natural language and imitate actions by observing human behavior, showing skills such as rapid learning, coordination and flexibility.
Huang Renxun called this project the "next trend" of artificial intelligence and robotics, and said that building basic models in the field of artificial robots is one of the most exciting problems in the field of artificial intelligence today. He emphasized the importance of the convergence of technologies for robotics experts around the world to make great progress in this field.
Figure1: NVIDIA company released the first general basic model for robots: GR00T project
GR00T is a basic model, which needs model training on NVIDIA DGX and real-time reinforcement learning on OVX. This workload involves iterative generation and training of models in a loop. OSMO can manage and schedule the workload in distributed environment, and realize seamless coordination between DGX and OVX systems, thus realizing efficient and iterative model development.
In addition to the GR00T project, Nvidia company also released a humanoid robot based on the new computer Jetson Thor, which has GenAI function as part of Nvidia company’s artificial intelligence-driven robot program. The release of Jetson Thor has brought new technical support and development opportunities to the robot industry.
Jim Fan, research manager of NVIDIA and head of embedded AI (GEAR Group), said on the social platform: "Today is the beginning of our moon landing program to solve AGI problems embodied in the physical world. I am pleased to announce the launch of the GR00T project, which is our new initiative to create a universal basic model for humanoid robot learning. " According to his introduction: "GR00T model will enable humanoid robots to understand multimodal instructions, such as language, video and demonstration, and perform various useful tasks."
NVIDIA's humanoid robot model project may have the following impacts on the whole robot industry: accelerating the intelligent process of robots, providing new technical support and promoting the development of robot industry. This move will enable robots to have smarter brains and make natural imitation actions by observing human behaviors, thus promoting the wide application of robots in various fields and promoting the vigorous development of the whole robot industry.
