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FlashDreams is NVIDIA's Apache 2.0 inference framework for real-time autoregressive world models. Built for robotics synthetic training data and sim-to-real pipelines, it delivers 68–103 FPS closed-loop generation with OmniDreams on GB300, and ships first-party integrations for OmniDreams, Cosmos-Predict2.5, and Self-Forcing.

NVIDIA's Isaac GR00T Reference Robot drops the full stack — hardware, simulation, models, deployment — under open licenses. Here's why that changes the economics of starting a robotics company.

NVIDIA's COMPASS uses residual reinforcement learning and policy distillation to deploy a single navigation policy across wheeled and legged platforms — with zero-shot sim-to-real transfer on the Unitree G1 humanoid.

The human hand is a 27-bone masterpiece honed over millions of years of evolution. Replicating it in silicon and steel is why companies are spending decades and billions on a single appendage. Here is why the hand matters, why it is so hard to build, and which open-source projects are democratizing dexterity.

ROS 2 Lyrical Luth is now available as the twelfth ROS 2 release and the latest Long Term Support (LTS) edition, supported until May 2031. Here's a breakdown of the features that matter most for robotics developers.

HEX is a 2.4B-parameter open-source VLA model pretrained on 12 million frames from seven different humanoid robots — and it controls all of them with a single policy.

From Open Duck Mini to Zeroth Bot — a survey of the open source humanoid robot projects you can actually build, study, or contribute to today.

A practical guide to setting up ROS 2 Jazzy for humanoid robot simulation — from installation to your first walking controller in MuJoCo.

A survey of the most significant papers on bipedal locomotion from 2025 — reinforcement learning, model predictive control, and sim-to-real transfer.