🫶 Our first Nvidia GTC 💚 Step by Step
- Humandroid
- Mar 12
- 4 min read
Updated: 4 days ago
Some moments mark a clear before and after. This month is one of them.
Our CTO, Santiago Braña, will be at NVIDIA GTC March 2026 the world's most important event for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics being interviewed to tell our story. From a startup in Córdoba, Argentina 🇦🇷, to the global stage where the future of automation is being defined.
Entering the NVIDIA Ecosystem
On January 1st, 2025, we registered as official members of the NVIDIA Developer Program, accessing key tools, SDKs, and resources that would propel our robotics and AI work forward.
Shortly after, we were accepted into the NVIDIA Inception Program, connecting us to a global ecosystem of innovation in AI and robotics.
And in March 2025, at the GTC 2025 keynote, Jensen Huang unveiled the future of AI and robotics — reinforcing our vision and empowering us to continue building our mission with cutting-edge technologies.
That was our first formal step inside the ecosystem that today has us on the main stage.
First Trip to the US: Texas and San Francisco 🇺🇸
With support from ProCórdoba, we embarked on our first trip to the United States. The mission: connect with the industrial innovation ecosystem and validate our vision on the ground.
In Texas, we visited some of the world's most influential companies — IBM, Tesla, Ericsson, Microsoft, and JP Morgan — exploring how technology transforms industry and how humanoid robots can integrate into high-impact environments.
The highlight of the trip was our visit to NVIDIA HQ in Santa Clara. Thanks to Andrei Golfeto, our Inception Program account manager, we secured a meeting with Sandra Skaff, Senior Strategic Alliances and Ecosystem Manager for Robotics at NVIDIA. Sandra is the person who builds and leads partnerships with robotics companies globally, drives adoption of the Isaac platform, and bridges partners with NVIDIA's product teams. Having her receive us was a clear signal we were on the right path.
Our Technology: From Simulation to the Real World
As we consolidated our relationship with NVIDIA, our technology proposition was also maturing.
In August, our partner BigDipper official Unitree distributors in Argentina provided us with the first humanoid robot to develop teleoperation and put our technology to the test in the real world. That moment was a turning point: we went from working in simulation to having a physical humanoid in our hands, executing movements, capturing data, and validating every layer of our pipeline. Without BigDipper, that leap from screen to reality wouldn't have been possible at that stage.
At Humandroid we believe the next frontier of automation lies not just in deploying robots but in training them, empowering them, and integrating them in ways that genuinely augment human workers and liberate people to focus on what truly matters.
We built a complete pipeline spanning simulation, real-world deployment, cloud connectivity, and human-in-the-loop training. We use NVIDIA's Isaac Sim to recreate industrial environments as digital twins oil & gas platforms, manufacturing plants, logistics hubs where our robots learn before touching the real world.
We proved it with our first client in Argentina: TGN — Transportadora de Gas del Norte. TGN is one of the most important energy companies in the country: it operates over 11,000 km of high-pressure gas pipelines, transports 40% of the natural gas injected into Argentina's main pipelines representing 20% of the national energy grid .
For TGN we built a complete simulation environment in Isaac Sim, integrating Omniverse libraries and collecting data from the Unitree G1 robot through teleoperation. A real use case, in a critical industry, that validated our pipeline from end to end. Real data, real environments, real results.
We proved it in practice: we built a complete simulation environment in Isaac Sim for an oil and gas client, integrating Omniverse libraries and collecting data from the Unitree G1 robot through teleoperation. Real data, real environments, real results.
And that work didn't go unnoticed. On October 29th, 2025, NVIDIA published a post on its official blog titled "Into the Omniverse: Open World Foundation Models Generate Synthetic Worlds for Physical AI Development"
Second Visit to NVIDIA HQ: The Human Connections That Change Everything
On November 13th we returned to NVIDIA's campus in heavy rain, navigating puddles between the Voyage and Endeavor buildings. This time we didn't go alone Francisco Alberto, our Robotics Lead, joined us, bringing his technical expertise to what promised to be a pivotal visit. But even the weather couldn't dampen the energy of that day.
What made that visit special was meeting José Castaños, System SW Principal Engineer at NVIDIA and the only Argentine working there. Speaking with someone who shares our roots, who understands where we come from, and who works at the cutting edge of AI and robotics was something hard to describe. Special thanks also to Enrique Badaraco, who made that connection possible.
That day we started planning joint initiatives for March 2026 with more complex testing and direct collaboration with NVIDIA every step of the way.
That meeting reminded us of something we must never forget: beyond the technology, what truly drives robotics are human connections and a shared passion for innovation.
GTC March 2026: The Moment Has Arrived
Every step was intentional. Every meeting, every simulation, every line of code, every conversation built something that couldn't be rushed: credibility, technology, and trust. And that's exactly what got us here.
Santiago Braña, our CTO, will be interviewed at NVIDIA GTC March 2026 to tell our story and show how we are building the future of work.
And we're coming with something concrete to present: Robots ID, our end-to-end operating system for humanoid robots.
Robots ID is the technological core of Humandroid. It's a platform designed to capture, structure, and scale real-world robot intelligence — training robots directly from human behavior through teleoperation, motion capture, and multimodal sensing. Humans perform tasks while robots record full-stack data: vision, proprioception, actions, and intent. That data becomes the foundation for training models that progressively reduce the need for human intervention.
What's Next
GTC is not a destination. It's the beginning of a new chapter.
We're coming to show our progress, learn from the brightest minds in robotics and AI, and define next steps alongside NVIDIA. If you're at GTC this March, we'd love to meet.
Our mission is clear:
To train the new workforce of the future.
This was our first step. And we are just getting started. 🦾
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