NVIDIA announced an expansion of the NVIDIA Isaac open robotics development platform at GTC Berlin on October 21, 2026, adding a reference humanoid, new datasets and a runtime alongside updates to its robot learning framework. NVIDIA said the new technologies together give developers an integrated path from data to deployment aimed at bringing general-purpose robots to the real world faster. “General-purpose robotics is advancing at extraordinary speed — the ChatGPT moment for robotics is fast…