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NVIDIA Announces Newton 1.0 GA, a Physics Engine
NVIDIA announced the 1.0 GA release of Newton, a physics engine for industrial robotics, on March 16, 2026.
What happened
NVIDIA announced the 1.0 GA release of Newton, a GPU-accelerated, open-source physics engine, on March 16, 2026. The release includes the Kamino solver developed by Disney Research and MuJoCo 3.5 (MJWarp), developed by Google DeepMind. It is said to speed up MJX by 252x on locomotion tasks and 475x on manipulation tasks. Toyota Research Institute (TRI) is also partnering on solver development and contact modeling.
Why it matters
NVIDIA has released Newton 1.0 GA and says MuJoCo 3.5 (MJWarp) speeds up MJX on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Series by 252x for locomotion and 475x for manipulation. Because the framework can handle legged mechanisms, contact-rich manipulation and deformable objects such as cloth and cables, researchers and robot developers can more easily expand the scope of testing while retaining existing assets.
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Translated from the Japanese original: /news/nvidia-sangyouyou-roboteikusu-muke-butsuri-enjin-newton-ni-s-ea5b0b. The Japanese version is authoritative if they differ.