NVlabs/GR00T-WholeBodyControl

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NVIDIA's unified platform for developing, training, and deploying whole-body controllers for humanoid robots, including the decoupled WBC models used in Isaac-GR00T N1.5/N1.6 and the GEAR-SONIC controller series. It provides model checkpoints, training and evaluation scripts, teleoperation support, and a C++ inference stack for deployment.

Use cases

• train a humanoid whole-body controller with reinforcement learning
• deploy a whole-body controller on a Unitree G1 robot
• collect teleoperation data for VLA fine-tuning
• run whole-body teleoperation with a low-latency controller
• fine-tune Isaac-GR00T N1.7 and deploy with SONIC control
• evaluate humanoid locomotion controllers in Isaac Lab
• generate text-to-motion for animation and robotics

When to choose

• you are working with humanoid robots and need state-of-the-art whole-body control
• you want to train or fine-tune controllers for the Isaac-GR00T VLA pipeline
• you need RL-based lower-body control combined with upper-body IK
• you want pretrained humanoid controller checkpoints to deploy or study

When to avoid

• you need controllers for non-humanoid robots like arms or quadrupeds
• you want a lightweight simulation-only project without GPU requirements
• you need a general-purpose robotics middleware rather than humanoid WBC
• you cannot use NVIDIA Isaac Lab / Isaac Sim infrastructure

Facets

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machine-learning reinforcement-learning simulation robotics llm-training robotics machine-learning simulation artificial-intelligence python humanoid-robots whole-body-control reinforcement-learning teleoperation vla isaac-lab motion-control model-checkpoints linux gpu docker

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