NVIDIA and Hugging Face open new robot foundation models and frameworks for LeRobot

NVIDIA and Hugging Face released new models, datasets, and frameworks into LeRobot, Hugging Face's open robotics stack — aimed at unlocking physical-AI work that has been gated by costly, fragmented resources like large datasets, robot foundation models, simulation, and validation tools.

What it means Open robot foundation models plus shared datasets are to physical AI what open LLMs were to text — the fastest lever for teams that can't afford to collect robot data from scratch.