Nvidia unveils GR00T 2 and Isaac Lab 3.0 at CoRL conference

The chipmaker brought a new robot foundation model, an upgraded simulation framework, and an open benchmark to the Conference on Robot Learning in Austin Nvidia used the 2026 Conference on Robot Learning to show off three new robotics releases: GR00T 2, Isaac Lab 3.0, and a new open benchmark for testing robot behavior. CoRL 2026 runs from November 9 to 12 in Austin, Texas. Jim Fan, co-lead of Project GR00T, is scheduled to give a keynote on November 9 at 1:50 p.m. CST titled “From Dreaming to Doing: World Action Models and Agentic Robotics.” What Nvidia brought to Austin GR00T 2 is the next generation of Nvidia’s foundation models for robots. A foundation model is a large, general-purpose AI system trained once and then adapted to many tasks, the robotics cousin of the models behind chatbots. Earlier versions in the line, GR00T N1.6 and N1.7, used a 3B-parameter open vision-language-action model running on a Cosmos backend. A vision-language-action model, or VLA, takes in what a robot sees, understands an instruction written in plain language, and outputs physical movements. Isaac Lab 3.0 is the training ground. It became generally available in late October 2026, landing roughly b...