Newton
- Software
- Simulators
- Simulator
Newton is a GPU-accelerated physics simulation engine built on NVIDIA Warp, aimed at roboticists and simulation researchers, with MuJoCo Warp as its primary backend.
Made by Linux Foundation (started by Disney Research, Google DeepMind and NVIDIA).
Source on GitHub: github.com/newton-physics/newton (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 32152f7 (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- Apache-2.0 (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE.md (opens in a new tab) (Apache-2.0) at commit 32152f7 (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Extends and generalizes Warp's deprecated warp.sim module and integrates MuJoCo Warp as its main backend.
- Emphasizes GPU-based computation, OpenUSD support, differentiability, and user-defined extensibility.
- Includes many runnable examples covering basic physics, robots, controllers, cables, tendons, cloth, inverse kinematics, and MPM.
- Installable with pip and launched through the newton.examples module, with an examples extra.
- Is a Linux Foundation project, community-built and maintained, initiated by Disney Research, Google DeepMind, and NVIDIA.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 32152f7.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- How to start
- The project's website (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Active: a commit in the last 90 days
- Newest commit
- 16 Oct 2026 on main
- Latest release
- Newton v1.7.0 (15 Oct 2026)
Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.
Links
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