Perceptron AI Launches Isaac 0.5, a Frontier Open-Weight Robotics Model
Perceptron's Isaac 0.5 outperforms leading open robot models, including Physical Intelligence's π0.5 and NVIDIA's GR00T N1.7
BELLEVUE, Wash., August 28, 2026--Perceptron AI has launched Isaac 0.5, a 36-billion-parameter open-weight embodied foundation model that combines video understanding, embodied reasoning and robot control, the first open model at the frontier of all three. Perceptron is working with customers to adapt the model for industrial systems.
Isaac can read video, follow language instructions, locate and track objects, estimate the state of a task, and generate robot actions. Industrial automation and robotics teams can use it as the policy that controls a robot or use its visual outputs inside an existing planning and control system.
Isaac was trained on three trillion multimodal tokens, one million hours of general video and 100,000 hours of robotics-oriented experience across more than 35 robot systems. Perceptron also established a new scaling law for the data behind robot models. In controlled training experiments, scaling general video from 1,000 hours to one million cut the teleoperation needed to reach the same, well-calibrated action loss from ~5,900 hours to 28.
"Companies need a model that performs at the frontier, learns a new task quickly and adapts to their hardware. Isaac gives them a strong, open starting point, and our team is working alongside our customers to bring it into real operations," said Armen Aghajanyan, co-founder and CEO of Perceptron AI.
Frontier performance among open robot models
Isaac is evaluated on the same kinds of capabilities required in deployed robotics: understanding a scene, following an instruction, adapting to a new task and completing an action sequence. Its results place it at the top of the open-model field across both robot control and embodied reasoning.
On LIBERO, a standard benchmark for robot manipulation, Isaac averages 97.2% success across spatial, object, goal and long-horizon tasks. The paper reports 97.0% for NVIDIA GR00T N1.7 and 96.9% for π0.5 in the same comparison table.
Isaac also learns new tasks faster. After one training pass over a single expert demonstration, it reduced error by 7.0x to 10.5x across three unseen tasks. The strongest competing open model, π0.5, improved by 2.3x to 3.1x. GR00T N1.7, MolmoAct2 and SmolVLA also trailed Isaac on every task in the study.
From an open model to customer deployment
Perceptron works with customers across manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, security and mobility. The company works directly with teams to adapt Isaac to their cameras, robot hardware, demonstration data and operating workflows.