At Computex Taipei 2026 on June 1, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced a partnership between NVIDIA and Unitree Technology to launch a next-generation humanoid robot reference design, the H2+ (Isaac GR00T system). Unitree provides the robot itself, the H2 — approximately 1.8 meters tall, weighing about 68 kg, with 31 degrees of freedom throughout the body. Each of its five-fingered hands is manufactured by Singapore’s Sharpa company and boasts 25 degrees of freedom. NVIDIA equips it with the Jetson AGX Thor T5000 computing platform (based on the Blackwell GPU, with 128GB of memory and AI computing power up to 2,070 TOPS FP4) and the Isaac GR00T foundation model as its „brain." At the same time, NVIDIA also released the Cosmos 3 world foundation model, which can understand the physical world from both first-person and third-person perspectives. This aims to solve the core bottleneck in humanoid robot training data: the severe lack of first-person perspective video data. Huang noted that most of the world’s video data is currently shot from a third-person perspective. He jokingly added that the robot’s height and weight are „about the same as mine."
The H2+ reference design targets higher education institutions and university researchers, including institutions such as Stanford University and ETH Zurich. Huang stated that building a complete humanoid robot testing platform independently is „just too hard" for researchers. This partnership is the latest move in NVIDIA’s strategy to extend the hardware and software advantages accumulated during the CUDA era to the robotics industry chain. Beyond Unitree, Chinese companies like AGIBOT, Galaxys General, and UBTECH have already adopted NVIDIA’s Jetson AGX Thor mass-production modules to provide computing power for their robot products. A May report from Morgan Stanley estimated that China’s annual sales of humanoid robots in 2026 will be approximately 28,000 units, more than double the previous year and the highest in the world. The report also stated that the industry is poised to become „the next important industry supporting China’s manufacturing and export system."