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SONIC

Sonic is NVIDIA generalist humanoid controller research project for physical AI. It trains policies from large motion-capture datasets and deploys onboard...

Facts

Company
NVIDIA
Product type
robot_control_software
Status
research
Website
https://research.nvidia.com/labs/dair/publication/sonic2026/

About SONIC

SONIC is a research framework for training humanoid whole-body tracking policies from large collections of human motion. Motion data are retargeted to a robot body and used within physics simulation to train a controller that reproduces diverse locomotion, athletic and expressive movements while maintaining balance.

The trained policy runs on physical humanoids and can serve as the low-level controller beneath interactive motion generators or higher-level embodied planners. NVIDIA has demonstrated SONIC-related control on Unitree G1 systems and connected it with projects including ARDY and Vesta. SONIC is an NVIDIA Research robotics project and controller framework.

Market context

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Summary

Type: Robot AI

Core: Motion tracking

Function: Locomotion

Audience: Developers

Specifications

core_functions
Real-time control policy execution; Low-latency action decision systems; Integration with simulation-trained robot models
deployment_model
research
platform_role
humanoid_control_layer
platform_type
software
system_capabilities
Low-latency decision systems
system_control
Real-time control policies
system_deployment
Action execution layer
system_integration
Integration with simulation-trained models
system_type
humanoid_control_framework

Operations

Product detail
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