@DrJimFan
I'm on a singular mission to solve the Physical Turing Test for robotics. It's the next, or perhaps THE last grand challenge of AI. Super-intelligence in text strings will win a Nobel prize before we have chimpanzee-intelligence in agility & dexterity. Moravec's paradox is a curse to be broken, a wall to be torn down. Nothing can stand between humanity and exponential physical productivity on this planet, and perhaps some day on planets beyond. We started a small lab at NVIDIA and grew to 30 strong very recently. The team punches way above its weight. Our research footprint spans foundation models, world models, embodied reasoning, simulation, whole-body control, and many flavors of RL - basically the full stack of robot learning. This year, we launched: - GR00T VLA (vision-language-action) foundation models: open-sourced N1 in Mar, N1.5 in June, and N1.6 this month; - GR00T Dreams: video world model for scaling synthetic data; - SONIC: humanoid whole-body control foundation model; - RL post-training for VLAs and RL recipes for sim2real. These wouldn't have been possible without the numerous collaborating teams at NVIDIA, strong leadership support, and coauthors from university labs. Thank you all for believing in the mission. Thread on the gallery of milestones: