- Nvidia, Unitree, and Sharpa have a new robotics deal
- The companies will produce a cutting-edge humanoid robot blueprint
- These robots are going to be better equipped for ‘real work’
There are some very impressive humanoid robot demos out there, but questions remain about just how capable these bots are at tackling real work, without supervision — questions that Nvidia, Unitree, and Sharpa are looking to answer with a new partnership.
The collaboration was announced by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at Computex 2026 (via the South China Morning Post), and will lead to a ‘reference design’ called H2+ or Isaac GR00T: essentially, a blueprint that manufacturers can follow that covers every aspect of development, from data collection to real-world deployment.
Nvidia will be supplying the AI data that means robots will be able to reason and act in useful ways (the brains of the operation). “For agentic systems, robotic systems and physical AI, data is the hardest problem,” Huang said in his keynote speech. “You’ve seen us moving up this ladder.”
The brain itself will be the Nvidia Jetson AGX Thor T5000 chip, based on a Blackwell GPU. It provides 128GB of memory and up to 2,070 FP4 teraflops of artificial intelligence compute — a cool two quadrillion AI calculations per second, to navigate the world with.
‘A meaningful step’
Unitree brings its H2 humanoid robot to the partnership, while Sharpa provides the five-fingered robot hands. Those hands are more important than you might think, if robots are to be expected to handle objects and operate tools with any level of precision.
The new deal between the three companies is “a meaningful step towards deploying robots that can perform real work, in real settings” according to Sharpa founder David Li Yifan. Work is now underway to get the Sharpa Wave hands integrated into the Unitree H2 — hands dexterous enough to deal a pack of cards.
Once the H2+ / Isaac GR00T reference design is published, it should enable companies to get robots into the field more quickly, and customize them more exactly for a specific range of jobs beyond the basics. Robots based on this blueprint will be able to better adapt to changes in the future too.
Nvidia had several other announcements to make at Computex 2026, including a world foundation model called Cosmos 3. This will give AI a greater understanding of the physical world from both first-person and third-person perspectives.
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