Nvidia’s SONIC Teaches Humanoids to Move

Nvidia has released SONIC, an open-source foundation model trained on over 100 million motion-capture frames, enabling humanoid robots to perform diverse whole-body movements and adapt in real time. SONIC supports tasks like walking, running, dancing, and object manipulation, improving flexibility over traditional controllers. The model aims to advance humanoid robot control for real-world applications and is detailed in a recent Science Robotics publication.