Nvidia’s Jim Fan says GR00T keynote teaser shows real autonomous robots at normal speed

The Project GR00T co-lead confirmed the humanoid footage ahead of his CoRL 2026 keynote is unaccelerated and runs without a human operator Jim Fan, who co-leads Nvidia’s Project GR00T, has confirmed that the teaser for his upcoming keynote shows real humanoid hardware operating autonomously at normal speed. That clarification matters more than it sounds. Any robot video now gets asked the same questions: is it sped up, and is someone driving it from behind the curtain? Fan’s answer to both is no. The keynote is scheduled for the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2026, set for November 9, 2026, in Austin, Texas. Fan is using the stage to show where Nvidia’s humanoid robotics effort has landed. What Fan confirmed, and why it counts Fan’s statement covers three things at once. The hardware is physical rather than simulated. The robot runs autonomously rather than under teleoperation. And the footage plays at its actual speed. What Project GR00T is trying to build Project GR00T is Nvidia’s push to create foundation models for humanoid robots. These are general-purpose AI systems that combine vision, language, and action in a single model. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang publicly unveiled the...