NVIDIA's Jim Fan Says GR00T Keynote Teaser Shows Real Robots Running Autonomously at Normal Speed

Jim Fan, who co-leads NVIDIA's Project GR00T, confirmed that the teaser for his Conference on Robot Learning 2026 keynote shows physical humanoid hardware operating autonomously at normal speed, without teleoperation. Crypto Briefing reported the confirmation on November 7, 2026.

What Fan Confirmed About the GR00T Footage

Fan's statement covers three points: the hardware is physical rather than simulated, the robot runs autonomously rather than under teleoperation, and the footage plays at its actual speed. The keynote is scheduled for November 9, 2026, in Austin, Texas.

Project GR00T is NVIDIA's effort to build foundation models for humanoid robots, general-purpose systems that combine vision, language and action in a single model. Jensen Huang, the company's chief executive, unveiled the project at GTC 2024; the name stands for "Generalist Robot 00 Technology."

NVIDIA introduced the open-weight GR00T N1 in March 2025, a 2B-parameter dual-system vision-language-action model. Follow-up versions N1.5 and N1.6 add integration with Cosmos Reason, and those iterations were expected to roll out through 2025.

The project targets data scarcity. Collecting real robot data is slow and expensive and typically requires teleoperation, in which a human controls the robot so the system can record successful actions. NVIDIA's approach multiplies that scarce real data with simulation, using platforms such as Isaac Lab and Cosmos alongside large-scale synthetic data generation. The methodology expands limited teleoperation data by over 1,000x, using simulations and generative world models to add variety in visuals and motion.

NVIDIA's Simulation and Data Pipeline

According to akta.pro company records, NVIDIA reported first-quarter fiscal 2027 revenue of $81.6 billion, up 85% year over year, including data center revenue of $75.2 billion, up 92%. The same records list second-quarter fiscal 2027 guidance of about $91.7 billion.

The records also list a June 2026 partnership with LG Group: a roughly 30-member LG delegation held high-level talks at NVIDIA's Santa Clara headquarters, indicating progress on AI infrastructure, robotics and "Physical AI" cooperation.

Earlier GR00T Showcases at CoRL

NVIDIA used CoRL 2025 to present GR00T updates alongside a beta of the Newton physics engine, according to Crypto Briefing. The 2026 edition continues that thread with a focus on advancing world models in robotics, AI systems that learn how the physical world behaves so a robot can anticipate outcomes before it acts.

NVIDIA's GR00T N1 release in March 2025 followed Huang's unveiling of the project at GTC 2024, Crypto Briefing reported.

GR00T Keynote Date in Austin

Fan's keynote is set for November 9, 2026, at CoRL 2026 in Austin, Texas, the date the report gives for the presentation.