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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 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.
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:
See the installation guide for detailed instructions that include steps for setting up a Python environment for use with Newton.
Before running the examples below, set up the uv environment with:
The examples support the following command-line arguments:
| --viewer | Viewer type: gl (OpenGL window), usd (USD file output), rerun (ReRun), or null (no viewer). | gl |
| --device | Compute device to use, e.g., cpu, cuda:0, etc. | None (default Warp device) |
| --num-frames | Number of frames to simulate (for USD output). | 100 |
| --output-path | Output path for USD files (required if --viewer usd is used). | None |
Some examples may add additional arguments (see their respective source files for details).
See the contribution guidelines and the development guide for instructions on how to contribute to Newton.
For questions, please consult the Newton documentation first before creating a discussion in the main repository.
By participating in this community, you agree to abide by the Linux Foundation Code of Conduct.
Please see the newton-governance repository for more information about project governance.
