Could Agile ONE SN be Europe's answer to the Unitree G1? Unitree G1 has become a widely used platform for humanoid robotics research. Now Agile Robots and NVIDIA are bringing another option to the table. Agile ONE SN is a compact humanoid built for R&D, preconfigured with NVIDIA Isaac GR00T and powered by Jetson Thor.(expected to launch in early 2027) Researchers can capture human demonstrations, generate training data in simulation, train new skills, test them virtually, then run them on the physical robot. Its tactile five-finger hands(Wuji hand), wrist cameras and whole-body control make it a useful platform for studying dexterous manipulation and coordinated movement. NVIDIA is also expanding the tools around it: Isaac Lab 3.0, Isaac OS, 2,000+ simulation-ready robotics and factory assets, and the Human 1M dataset. The goal is to spend less time integrating hardware, data and software, and more time figuring out what the robot can actually do. Skills developed on the 1.4-meter Agile ONE SN are intended to transfer to the full-size Agile ONE for industrial applications.

Let humanoids do the dangerous work. Every year, around 330,000 workers die from occupational accidents worldwide. Minerva Humanoids wants humanoids to take on some of the jobs where the consequences can be even worse: oil & gas, refineries, bomb disposal, and hazardous-material response. Its first robot, called Roger, is built for remote operation. A trained human controls the robot from a safe location, while Roger handles balance and navigation on its own--keep the expert in control, but keep them out of harm’s way. Its first paid pilots are planned for this fall. Minerva was founded by former Tesla Optimus and Boston Dynamics engineers, with software and AI developed in the US and hardware engineered and assembled in Germany. The company just emerged from stealth with about $10M in pre-seed funding, led by General Catalyst.