Morning Edition · Wednesday, July 8, 2026
NVIDIA and Hugging Face Push Isaac GR00T 1.7 Into the Open LeRobot Stack
The release brings an open vision-language-action model, a teleoperation data-collection framework, and a planned world model to Hugging Face's robotics library.
NVIDIA and Hugging Face are bringing Isaac GR00T 1.7, an open, reasoning vision-language-action (VLA) model for humanoid robots, plus the Isaac Teleop data-collection framework, into LeRobot, Hugging Face's open-source robotics library. NVI…
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