AUSTIN, Texas — NVIDIA on Monday unveiled GR00T 2, a new open robot foundation model that learns dexterous manipulation skills by watching human video, alongside Isaac Lab 3.0, the latest version of its open-source robot-learning framework. The announcements were made on 9 November 2026 at the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) in Austin, Texas, which runs through 12 November. NVIDIA's director of robotics, Jim Fan, presented the work in a keynote titled "From Dreaming to Doing: World Action Models and Agentic Robotics," arguing that the fastest route to capable robots is to let them learn from the video humans already produce every day. Illustration: A humanoid robot arm practises a delicate manipulation task in a robotics laboratory. This is an AI-generated illustration, not a photograph of the event. What Happened NVIDIA introduced GR00T 2 as an open frontier "world action model" built on NVIDIA Cosmos, its family of world models. A world action model...