The move is seen as supporting accessibility and deployment for physical AI and also boosting Nvidia’s already strong presence in the field.
July 8, 2026
Nvidia and Hugging Face entered into a new collaboration for open source robotics, integrating the chipmaker’s models onto LeRobot, Hugging Face’s open source library for physical AI developers.
Under the deal, unveiled on July 6, the companies added Nvidia's Isaac GR00T 1.7 open reasoning vision-language-action (VLA) models for humanoid robotics and the Isaac Teleop framework for robotics data collection into LeRobot, with the Cosmos 3 frontier robotics model planned for future integration.
The integrations build on resources already connected to LeRobot. They include an open source physical AI data set with more than 350,000 real and simulated trajectories and 57 million grasps; the Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab simulation frameworks; and Jetson Thor (an AI supercomputer designed for robotics) integration with LeRobot's Reachy 2 humanoid robot platform to support deployment of VLA models on open source humanoids.
