A New Era for Generalist Robotics: The Rise of Humanoids | NVIDIA GTC 2025
Bernt Børnich, Aaron Saunders, Deepak Pathak
NVIDIA GTC 2025 · Session
This panel discussion, "A New Era for Generalist Robotics: The Rise of Humanoids," brought together a distinguished group of leaders from the forefront of robotics and AI to discuss the monumental shifts occurring in the field. Moderated by Tiffany Jansen, the panel featured executives from 1X, Skilled AI, Agility Robotics, Boston Dynamics, and NVIDIA, each offering unique perspectives on the current state and future trajectory of humanoid robots. The core theme revolved around the transition of robotics from specialized, control-driven machines to generalist, intelligent entities powered by foundation models and learning-by-experience paradigms.
AI review
A high-profile panel with genuinely interesting participants, but the write-up reads like a cleaned-up press briefing rather than a technical account of something that was built and demonstrated. The GR00T N1 architecture gets the closest to real substance — the data pyramid framing and latent action extraction from video generation models are worth knowing about — but there's not enough implementation specificity to do anything with it. The anecdotes (toilet seat at 50% accuracy, Digit transferring to a heavier body) are illustrative but thin. No code, no benchmarks with methodology, no…