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The Newton Physics Engine supports complex robotic tasks and has been downloaded over 3 million times, aiming to boost open-source robotics learning and simulation.
- This week at the Conference on Robot Learning in Seoul, NVIDIA, Google DeepMind and Disney Research contributed the Newton Physics Engine to the Linux Foundation.
- Built on NVIDIA Warp and OpenUSD, Newton delivers GPU-accelerated simulation supporting multiple physics solvers and enables sim-to-real transfer of contact-rich robot behaviors.
- In the Isaac Lab beta, the Newton engine includes Isaac GR00T N1.6 and benefits from Cosmos Reason and NVIDIA Physical AI Dataset, downloaded over 4.8 million times.
- Under the Linux Foundation, Newton will remain vendor neutral, and industry experts say it could cut development time by months, with Jim Zemlin noting `Bringing Newton to the Linux Foundation marks an important step forward for scaling collaborative robotics simulation that accelerates development, reduces costs and gets us closer to the future of sim-to-real robots`.
- Looking ahead, NVIDIA plans Cosmos Transfer 2.5 and Cosmos Predict 2.5 updates and commits to future updates and regular maintenance for Isaac GR00T N1.6 to enhance humanoid robotics.
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