This project is in active beta development. This means the API is unstable, features may be added or removed, and breaking changes are likely to occur frequently and without notice as the design is refined.
Newton
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.sim module, 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. It is permissively licensed under the Apache-2.0 license.
Newton was initiated by Disney Research, Google DeepMind, and NVIDIA.
Quickstart
During the alpha development phase, we recommend using the uv Python package and project manager. You may find uv installation instructions in the Newton Installation Guide.
Once uv is installed, running Newton examples is straightforward:
# Clone the repository git clone [email protected]:newton-physics/newton.git cd newton # set up the uv environment for running Newton examples uv sync --extra examples # run an example uv run -m newton.examples basic_pendulum
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