NVIDIA releases Metatron v1, one promptable whole-body control policy for the Unitree G1 humanoid
READ THE ORIGINAL SOURCEOpen original sourcehuggingface.co · Opens in a new tabNVIDIA's Hugging Face model card describes Metatron v1, a promptable whole-body control policy for the Unitree G1 humanoid. It is distributed as a native PyTorch G1 package and as ONNX exports for a single-robot browser pipeline and a six-robot batched G1 Racer network. The policy unifies walking, scene interaction and recovery in one network. The card covers inputs and outputs, runtime requirements, a numerical export check against the single-robot demo, licensing terms, and limitations including that recovery can fail and the model is not a safety controller.
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NVIDIA's Hugging Face model card describes Metatron v1, a promptable whole-body control policy for the Unitree G1 humanoid. It is distributed as a native PyTorch G1 package and as ONNX exports for a single-robot browser pipeline and a six-robot batched G1 Racer network. The policy unifies walking, scene interaction and recovery in one network. The card covers inputs and outputs, runtime requirements, a numerical export check against the single-robot demo, licensing terms, and limitations including that recovery can fail and the model is not a safety controller.
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- Metatron v1 ships as a native G1 PyTorch checkpoint plus ONNX exports for a browser demo and a six-robot G1 Racer network.
- Walking, scene interaction and recovery share one policy, with no separate recovery adapter, per the epoch-6410 student description.
- Six-robot ONNX and compiled-observation paths matched the single-robot export on 60 test states with max absolute action error 5.55e-6.
- The card states the exports are not a safety controller and that hardware use requires independent validation and an emergency stop.
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NVIDIA published Metatron v1 on Hugging Face, a unified Unitree G1 policy where walking, scene interaction and recovery share one policy with no separate recovery adapter. It ships a native checkpoint plus ONNX browser exports, with simulator and supervised real-robot deployment.
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It is a concrete open release of a humanoid whole-body control policy with inference artifacts and explicit deployment caveats, useful for researchers evaluating humanoid control methods.
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