Newton
GPU-accelerated differentiable physics simulation engine built on NVIDIA Warp, supporting rigid/soft body, cloth, and gradient-based optimization for scientific ML, initiated by Disney Research, DeepMind, and NVIDIA (Linux Foundation, Apache 2.0, 2025)
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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…
- Repository
- github.com/newton-physics/newton
Source attribution
- Awesome AI for Science — github.com/newton-physics/newton
- GitHub — github.com/newton-physics/newton
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