Atlas leads the humanoid industry by designing in NVIDIA Jetson Thor computing platform and earning new skills in NVIDIA Isaac Lab
Waltham, MA—March 18, 2025 – Boston Dynamics, the global leader in mobile robotics, has expanded its collaboration with NVIDIA to build the next generation of AI capabilities for humanoid robots. As an early adopter of the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T platform, Boston Dynamics’s Atlas robot is leading development of humanoids using the NVIDIA Jetson Thor computing platform.
The compact size, high performance and efficiency of Jetson Thor enables Atlas to run complex, multimodal AI models that work seamlessly with Boston Dynamics’ whole-body and manipulation controllers. Developers at Boston Dynamics and its research partners are also making rapid breakthroughs in learned dexterity and locomotion AI policies using Isaac Lab, an open-source, modular framework for robot learning in physically accurate virtual environments, which is built on NVIDIA Isaac Sim and NVIDIA Omniverse technologies. The two companies are collaborating to define key platform parameters including functional safety and security architectures, as well as key learning and computer vision pipelines using NVIDIA’s training and simulation platforms.
“Robots are the bridge between simulation and the real world,” said Aaron Saunders, Chief Technology Officer at Boston Dynamics. “With the current generation of our electric Atlas, we are building the world’s most capable humanoid, and collaborating with NVIDIA to integrate Jetson Thor means that robot now has the highest performance compute platform behind it. Isaac lab is allowing us to develop state of the art AI capabilities, and the early results are exciting.”
In addition to the ongoing work on Atlas, Boston Dynamics has also continued introducing new AI capabilities for Spot, the company’s flagship quadruped, and Orbit, its robot fleet management and data analysis software. New RL tools are improving the robot’s locomotion control and advanced foundation models are helping the robot avoid specific kinds of hazards that might appear in its path.
Aaron Saunders will speak at NVIDIA GTC 2025 and explore the current state of humanoid robotics with a panel of industry leaders on Wednesday, March 19.
About Boston Dynamics
Boston Dynamics is the global leader in developing and deploying highly mobile robots capable of tackling the toughest industrial and safety challenges. Our robots are equipped with advanced mobility, dexterity and intelligence, enabling automation in unstructured or hard-to-traverse and unsafe spaces, from manufacturing facilities, power plants, and construction sites, as well as warehouses and distribution centers. We have three robots in our portfolio: Spot®, a quadruped that conducts industrial inspections for enterprise asset management and keeps people out of harm’s way through public safety applications; Stretch®, a box-moving robot currently being deployed with logistics and retail customers; and Atlas®, our electric humanoid platform currently in development. For more information on our company and our technologies, please visit www.bostondynamics.com.
