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Isaac Sim

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NVIDIA's GPU-accelerated robotics simulator built on Omniverse, for developing, testing, training and deploying AI-powered robots in virtual environments.

  • Closed core

Made by NVIDIA.

Source on GitHub: github.com/isaac-sim/IsaacSim (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 87c9527 (opens in a new tab).

Licenses

Code
Apache-2.0 (opens in a new tab)

Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (Apache-2.0) at commit 87c9527 (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.

Commercial use
Unknown

It needs closed parts under their own terms: read them before any commercial use.

One part it needs is closed

  • Needs NVIDIA Omniverse Kit SDK, models and textures: The license's preamble: building or using it "requires additional components licenced under other terms".

Labels

  • Closed coreIt needs closed parts: NVIDIA Omniverse Kit SDK, models and textures.

What it does

  • Imports robot systems from URDF, MJCF and CAD formats.
  • Uses GPU-accelerated physics engines and multi-sensor RTX rendering at scale.
  • Provides tools for robot tuning, controllers, motion generation and kinematics solvers.
  • Includes RTX and physics-based sensor simulation.
  • Offers Isaac Lab for reinforcement learning, imitation learning and motion planning.
  • Includes a ROS integration bridge, synthetic data generation tools and digital twin simulation.

Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 87c9527.

Getting started

Difficulty
Advanced
Hardware it needs, as the project states it
Windows 11 or Linux (Ubuntu 22.04/24.04); GCC/G++ 11 required on Ubuntu 24.04. Minimum local workstation GPU RTX 4080, recommended RTX 5080 or RTX 5880 Ada, best RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation; datacenter minimum A40, recommended L40S or L20, best RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server. Requires a compat

Maintenance

Status
Active: a commit in the last 90 days
Newest commit
14 Oct 2026 on develop
Latest release
v6.2.0 (14 Oct 2026)

Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.

Links

Robots on Robotheca that use it

No robot on Robotheca is linked to it yet. Links come from a robot's robot.yaml, from its dependency files read as text, or from Robotheca's editors.

Robotheca lists software as a reference: nothing is hosted or run here, and every fact links to where it was read.