NVIDIA Newton (beta)

2025-09-29 · Publisher : NVIDIA, Google DeepMind et Disney Research · Domain : Robotics

At CoRL 2025, NVIDIA releases the beta of Newton, an open-source GPU-accelerated physics engine co-developed with Google DeepMind and Disney Research and governed by the Linux Foundation.

### What changes On September 29, 2025, at CoRL (Conference on Robot Learning), NVIDIA announced the beta of Newton, an open-source GPU-accelerated physics engine, now available in Isaac Lab. Announced at GTC in March 2025, the project is co-developed with Google DeepMind and Disney Research. ### Specifications - **Governance**: managed by the Linux Foundation, setting it apart from a proprietary tool. - **Technology**: built on NVIDIA Warp and OpenUSD, with a flexible design that supports different physics solvers. - **Use cases**: simulating complex actions, such as walking through snow or gravel and handling cups or fruit, then transferring them to the real world. - **Early users**: ETH Zurich (Robotic Systems Lab), Technical University of Munich, Peking University, Lightwheel and Style3D. - **Related announcements**: the open Isaac GR00T N1.6 model, which will integrate Cosmos Reason, and Cosmos Predict 2.5 and Transfer 2.5, announced as coming soon. ### Why it matters Humanoids, with complex joints and delicate balance, push physics engines to their limits. Newton brings three major players together around a shared open engine, which could make it a standard. ### Key takeaway NVIDIA sums up its strategy in three pieces: GR00T as the brain, Newton to simulate the body, Omniverse as the training ground. Newton 1.0 was announced at GTC 2026.

Tags : Simulation, Moteur physique, Open Source, NVIDIA, Linux Foundation