NVIDIA released GR00T 1.7, an open Vision-Language-Action foundation model for humanoid robots, now integrated into the LeRobot framework for simplified training and deployment. The release includes Isaac Teleop, a tool for collecting robot demonstration data, and support for the SO-101 robot for real-world task execution. On the LIBERO benchmark, GR00T 1.7 achieved an average success rate of 96.5% across manipulation tasks, a significant improvement over the previous version.
