NVIDIA has a new humanoid for research labs, and it didn’t build it. At GTC Berlin on October 21, 2026, Munich-based Agile Robots launched Agile ONE SN, a 1.4-meter “reference humanoid” that comes with NVIDIA’s Isaac GR00T software preinstalled and a Jetson Thor computer on board. NVIDIA announced it in the same Isaac platform release as a new robot runtime, a general release of Isaac Lab 3.0 and a large human-motion dataset.
The pitch to labs is time: one integrated robot instead of weeks spent wiring hardware, simulation and training tools together. What’s missing is the number every lab budget starts with. Neither company has published a price, and the robot isn’t available until early 2027.
- Price: not announced by Agile Robots or NVIDIA.
- Availability: “early 2027” (NVIDIA) or “beginning of 2027” (Agile Robots). It was on show at GTC Berlin; it isn’t shipping yet.
- What it is: a 1.4-meter, 31-degree-of-freedom body with two 20-degree-of-freedom Wuji hands, Jetson Thor compute and GR00T 1.7 preconfigured, aimed at research labs.
- The catch: no price, safety integration with NVIDIA Halos is only planned, and the two companies’ own spec sheets disagree on the robot’s weight (40 vs 43 kg).
What Agile ONE SN is
Agile ONE SN is a compact research version of Agile Robots’ humanoid line. The company calls it “the compact humanoid reference platform” in its portfolio and positions its full-size Agile ONE for industrial work, saying skills and data developed on the smaller robot “can later be transferred to Agile ONE.” According to Reuters, as reported by Mobile World Live, the “N” stands for NVIDIA.
The hardware, per the two companies’ releases and Agile Robots’ product page:
- Body: the Agile ONE S, 1.4 meters tall, 31 degrees of freedom, up to 140 Nm of joint torque and a payload of up to 3 kg per arm.
- Hands: two Wuji five-finger hands with 20 degrees of freedom each, which NVIDIA says offer 1 kHz force control and tactile sensing. Agile Robots counts 71 degrees of freedom across body and hands.
- Compute: NVIDIA Jetson Thor, which NVIDIA rates at 2,070 FP4 teraflops with 128 GB of unified memory, plus an Intel i3 N305 base computing module.
- Sensing: an RGB-D camera on the head, wrist cameras, a 3D lidar at the waist, RGB-D cameras at the waist and back, and inertial measurement units.
- Software: Isaac GR00T preconfigured, including the open GR00T 1.7 vision-language-action model and GR00T whole-body control, plus URDF and USD files to load the robot into Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab.
- Other: Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth and an emergency stop button.
The weight is where the sheets split. NVIDIA’s release says 40 kilograms. Agile Robots says 43 kilograms, both in its own release and on its product page. (The product page’s “excluding hands” note sits under the 31-degrees-of-freedom figure, not the weight.) Neither company has explained the 3 kg gap.
Why a “reference humanoid” matters to labs
A reference platform is a known-good configuration that other people can build on and compare against. For a humanoid lab, the expensive part often isn’t the robot itself but the months of integration around it: getting the hands, cameras, compute, simulator model and training pipeline to agree. NVIDIA says Agile ONE SN cuts “setup time from weeks to days.” Spencer Huang, NVIDIA’s product director for robotics, told Reuters that the standard setup could save researchers two or three months, according to Mobile World Live. Those are company estimates, not measured results from a lab.
The other selling point is comparability. If several labs run the same body, the same simulator assets and the same GR00T workflow, their results are easier to reproduce. Agile Robots says the platform is “open and modular,” that teams can use the full workflow or only parts of it, and that “researchers keep full control of their data.”
NVIDIA has tried this before. On May 31, 2026, it announced an Isaac GR00T reference humanoid for academic research, and Unitree said its H2 Plus was built on that stack, as we noted in our GR00T explainer. When we checked Unitree’s US store around October 7, the H2 Plus was a contact-sales listing rather than a buy-now product. Agile ONE SN is a second GR00T reference robot, this time from a German maker that also builds its own full-size humanoid.
Planned vs shipping
Almost everything about Agile ONE SN is future tense. Both companies date availability to early 2027. NVIDIA’s release describes “planned integration” of on-robot safety protocols with NVIDIA Halos, its safety stack; Agile Robots’ own release says it is “exploring integration” with Halos. Stanford University and ETH Zurich are named only as showing “interest,” not as buyers. Agile Robots founder and CEO Zhaopeng Chen told Reuters that production of the Agile ONE S and ONE SN would begin by the end of 2026 and that they expect to build 1,000 to 2,000 units, according to Mobile World Live. Neither company’s release includes those numbers.
Footage needs the same care. NVIDIA Robotics’ launch clip on X, which shows the robot handling parts at a workbench, carries an on-screen label reading “Contains AI-Generated and Modified Content.” Treat it as promotional video, not evidence of what the robot can do on its own. On our readiness scale, Agile ONE SN is an announced product with a dated launch window. It isn’t yet in a lab.
Without a price, it’s hard for a lab to weigh it against what it can order today. Unitree, for example, listed its G1 from $13,500 when we last checked its own pages on October 4, as covered in our Unitree prices guide. That’s a different robot, with different hands and compute, but it’s the kind of number Agile ONE SN doesn’t have yet.
What else NVIDIA shipped at GTC Berlin
The rest of the Isaac release is mostly software that’s available now, which makes it the more concrete half of the news:
- Isaac Lab 3.0 is generally available. NVIDIA describes it as an open-source framework for training robot policies across multiple GPUs, using physics engines including Newton and PhysX.
- Isaac OS is a new open-source runtime, built on NVIDIA Holoscan, that connects AI models, sensors, controls and robot hardware.
- Data: the SimReady Central Library (more than 2,000 simulation-ready assets) and the Human 1M Dataset (human activities with synchronized three-view video and 3D hand tracking) are on Hugging Face. The full Human 1M dataset is limited to Cosmos Coalition partners.
- Three reference workflows for the DGX Station desktop system: refining GR00T 1.7 with reinforcement learning, training dexterous manipulation in Isaac Lab, and post-training Cosmos world models for synthetic data with ChatGPT Astra.
One supplier detail stood out. Schaeffler, which has just opened a Taicang factory where humanoids help assemble humanoid actuators, said in its own October 21 release that it is integrating digital twins of its humanoid actuators into Newton as the physics engine’s “exclusive foundational component,” so developers can simulate actuator behavior before building hardware. NVIDIA also named ABB Robotics, Hexagon Robotics, Humanoid, KUKA and NEURA Robotics among the European companies building on its open robotics platform.
What to watch
Three things: a price and an order page for Agile ONE SN, a clarified spec sheet that settles the weight, and whether Halos integration moves from “planned” to shipped by the early-2027 launch. The first named university or company customer would also tell us whether “interest” turned into orders.
Frequently asked questions
What is Agile ONE SN?
Agile ONE SN is a compact humanoid robot for research and development from Agile Robots, launched with NVIDIA at GTC Berlin on October 21, 2026. It comes preconfigured with NVIDIA Isaac GR00T software, including the GR00T 1.7 model, and runs on an NVIDIA Jetson Thor computer.
How much does Agile ONE SN cost?
Neither Agile Robots nor NVIDIA has published a price. The launch materials give specifications and an availability window but no price or order page.
When will Agile ONE SN be available?
NVIDIA says it is scheduled to be available in early 2027, and Agile Robots says the beginning of 2027. It was on show at GTC Berlin but isn’t shipping yet.
What are the Agile ONE SN specs?
The body is 1.4 meters tall with 31 degrees of freedom, up to 140 Nm of joint torque and up to 3 kg of payload per arm. It has two Wuji hands with 20 degrees of freedom each, cameras, lidar and Jetson Thor compute. NVIDIA’s release lists the weight as 40 kg; Agile Robots’ release and product page list 43 kg.
Is Agile ONE SN the same as NVIDIA’s earlier GR00T reference humanoid?
No. NVIDIA announced an Isaac GR00T reference humanoid for academic research on May 31, 2026, and Unitree said its H2 Plus was built on that stack. Agile ONE SN is a separate robot from Agile Robots built on the same GR00T platform.
Sources
- NVIDIA, “NVIDIA Advances Isaac Platform for General-Purpose Robotics With New Reference Humanoid, Frameworks, Simulation Pipelines and Data,” October 21, 2026 (Agile ONE SN specs, early-2027 availability, planned Halos integration, Isaac Lab 3.0, Isaac OS, datasets, workflows, partners, Schaeffler and Newton): nvidianews.nvidia.com
- Agile Robots, “Agile Robots Launches Agile ONE SN – a Humanoid Reference Platform Built on NVIDIA Isaac GR00T,” October 21, 2026 (43 kg, 71 degrees of freedom, 140 Nm, GR00T 1.7, “exploring integration” with Halos, availability): agile-robots.com
- Agile Robots, Agile ONE SN product page (43 kg weight, 31 DoF excluding hands, sensors, Intel i3 N305 module): agile-robots.com
- NVIDIA blog, “GTC Berlin 2026: Live Updates From NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s Keynote,” October 21, 2026: blogs.nvidia.com
- Schaeffler, “Schaeffler and NVIDIA Collaborate to Accelerate Humanoid Robot Deployment Through AI-Powered Digital Twins,” October 21, 2026: schaeffler.com
- Mobile World Live, “Agile Robots, Nvidia target up to 2,000 humanoids in 2027,” October 21, 2026 (citing Reuters interviews with Zhaopeng Chen and Spencer Huang): mobileworldlive.com
- NVIDIA Robotics on X, Agile ONE SN launch clip, October 21, 2026: x.com/NVIDIARobotics
- Agile Robots, “Meet Agile ONE SN,” official YouTube channel, October 21, 2026: youtube.com
All sources accessed October 22, 2026, at about 7:30 AM ET; NVIDIA release, Agile Robots release, product page and YouTube embed rechecked October 23, 2026, at about 7:35 AM ET (still no price or order page).
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