newton-physics/newton
An open-source, GPU-accelerated physics simulation engine built upon NVIDIA Warp, specifically targeting roboticists and simulation researchers.
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 18 days ago, with 128 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a GPU-accelerated physics simulation engine built on NVIDIA Warp for robotics and simulation research.
- Enables scalable, differentiable, and extensible physics simulations with GPU acceleration and OpenUSD support.
- Use for simulating complex robotic systems and articulated mechanisms with high performance on NVIDIA GPUs.
- Use for developing and testing inverse kinematics and control policies in robotics research environments.
- Use for simulating deformable objects like cloth, cables, and granular materials in physics-based animation or robotics.
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
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From the README
Newton is a GPU-accelerated physics simulation engine built upon NVIDIA Warp, specifically targeting roboticists and simulation researchers.
Newton extends and generalizes Warp's (deprecated)
warp.simmodule, and integrates MuJoCo Warp as its primary backend. Newton emphasizes GPU-based computation, OpenUSD support, differentiability, and user-defined extensibility, facilitating rapid iteration and scalable robotics simulation.Newton is a Linux Foundation project that is community-built and maintained. Code is licensed under Apache-2.0. Documentation is licensed under CC-BY-4.0.
Newton was initiated by Disney Research, Google DeepMind, and NVIDIA.
For detailed system requirements and tested configurations, see the installation guide.
To install from source with uv, see the installation guide.
Daily snapshots
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+562 stars over 82 days across 10 snapshot days; best day +59 on Aug 16.
Forks
756+133
Open issues
432+49
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| microsoft/VibeVoice | 56.0K | +1.1K | 29 | — |
| newton-physics/newton | 5.9K | — | 64 | 18 days ago |
| Category median | 56.0K | +2.3K | 29 | — |
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