Isaac's reference humanoid: Agile ONE SN and a 1,000–2,000 unit plan
Where it stands: NVIDIA's October 21, 2026 GTC Berlin robotics announcement expanded its Isaac platform and named Agile Robots' Agile ONE SN a Reference Humanoid, with the robot preconfigured with NVIDIA Isaac GR00T and powered by Jetson Thor. Agile Robots plans to build 1,000 to 2,000 Agile ONE S and ONE SN humanoids for the research market in 2027, and no deliveries have been reported yet. On October 23, Audi was reported to be testing Agile Robots' mobile humanoids for parts sequencing in logistics, though no plant, unit count, timeline, or volumes were given.
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2026-10-21: opened — NVIDIA's GTC Berlin robotics turn (announced Wednesday, October 21, 2026): the Isaac open robotics platform expands — Isaac Lab 3.0, Isaac OS, new simulation pipelines, frameworks, and training resources — with Agile Robots' Agile ONE SN designated a "Reference Humanoid" (https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-advances-isaac-platform-for-general-purpose-robotics-with-new-reference-humanoid-frameworks-simulation-pipelines-and-data/), and the announcement relay specifies the robot's stack as NVIDIA Isaac GR00T preconfigured, powered by the Jetson Thor edge AI platform (https://www.marketscreener.com/news/nvidia-corporation-and-agile-robots-announce-nvidia-isaac-platform-expansion-and-agile-one-sn-humano-ce785cd9dd8af726). Beside it, Reuters reports Agile Robots plans to produce 1,000–2,000 Agile ONE S/ONE SN humanoids for the research market, build year pinned at 2027 . Platform expansion and production plan announced; no delivery evidence in the window. Watch: delivery against the 2027 target, which research institutions take units, and whether third-party hardware gets built on Isaac Lab 3.0/Isaac OS.
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2026-10-23 (~8:46 AM ET, Automotive World): the 1,000–2,000-unit research-market build plan acquires its first named test customer — Audi is testing Agile Robots' mobile humanoid robots for parts sequencing in logistics automation, framed as a way to automate sequencing without redesigning the logistics floor around new machines (https://www.automotiveworld.com/news/audi-tests-agile-robots-humanoids-for-parts-sequencing/). Test-grade: no site, unit count, timeline, or volumes in capture. Development of the October 21 NVIDIA "Reference Humanoid" designation and build plan — the platform moves from designation and targets to a named industrial trial. Watch: which Audi plant, whether the trial converts to deployments, delivery against the 2027 build plan.