robot policy
GR00T N1.6
NVIDIA 3B open VLA citing Eagle 2.5 VLM and integrated with Cosmos Reason.
Levelmodel
Classrobot policy
Parameters3B
Contextnot in the notes
ReleasedJan 2026
Opennessopen weights restricted
Runs onnot in the notes
Statusactive
Lineage
finetunesuccessor
Eagle 2.5 is the parent (finetune)low confidencemodel cardGR00T N1.7 is a child (successor)high confidencenotesGR00T N1 is the parent (successor)medium confidencenotesWhere this comes from
Parent and child relations from model cards, Hugging Face base_model fields and the genealogy tables of the research notes. The tree shows two generations each way, 5 models. Confidence and evidence are the notes' own.
Identity
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.
Architecture and Size
- Architecture
- hybrid SigLIP2 vision, T5 text encoder, embodiment-indexed MLPs, flow-matching DiT action head
- Total parameters
- 3B sources
- Active parameters
- –
- Checkpoint parameters
- –
- Context length
- not in the notes
- Input
- image, text
- Output
- action
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).
Openness and Access
- Openness
- open weights restricted
- Licence
- NVIDIA licence (noncommercial licence text linked from GR00T N1.6 card) sources
- Access routes
- open weights download
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.
Deployment
- Runs on
- not in the notes
- Footprint
- not in the notes
- Runtimes
- not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.
Indonesia
- Indonesian support
- not stated
- Regional languages
- not in the notes
- Jakarta hosting
- unknown
- Languages
- not in the notes
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.
Benchmark Results
The notes record no benchmark result for this model.
Industry Use Cases
No industry use case links this model.
Links
DeveloperNVIDIAbig tech, USA
NVIDIAbig tech, USAModelGR00T N1.6NVIDIA, robot policy
GR00T N1.6NVIDIA, robot policyR&D TopicsVision-Language-Action Robot Policies
Use CasesHumanoid Parts Handling in Automotive ManufacturingIndustrialRetail Grocery Manipulation RobotsRetail and LogisticsHumanoid Robots in LogisticsRetail and LogisticsUse cases of models in the same R&D topic; none is recorded for this model itself.
Who Runs It
BMW (Spartanburg plant)In production, 30 Jun 2026Catalyst BrandsContract signed, 26 May 2026Deployments of these use cases; none names this model.
BMW (Spartanburg plant)In production, 30 Jun 2026Catalyst BrandsContract signed, 26 May 2026Deployments of these use cases; none names this model.Models 4
Organisations 1
Sources
- NVIDIA Cosmos Announcements at CES 2026 forums.developer.nvidia.com https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-cosmos-announcements-at-ces-2026/356629
- huggingface.co/nvidia/GR00T-N1.6-3B https://huggingface.co/nvidia/GR00T-N1.6-3B
To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "GR00T N1.6", https://aurion.semai.id/models/nvidia-gr00t-n1-6/, records of October 2026.