NVIDIA Announces Newton 1.0 GA Physics Engine at GTC 2026

NVIDIA announced Newton 1.0 GA, a GPU-accelerated physics engine for industrial robotics, at GTC 2026, developer.nvidia.com reported. Based on NVIDIA Warp and OpenUSD, the engine simulates manipulation and locomotion tasks involving deformable objects and contact with high accuracy. It also integrates solvers such as Kamino from Disney Research and MuJoCo 3.5 from Google DeepMind. On NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Series, it is said to make MJX 252 times faster for locomotion tasks and 475 times faster for manipulation tasks.

For developers building training environments for industrial robots, a key feature of Newton 1.0 GA is its ability to connect existing formats such as MJCF, URDF and OpenUSD, and handle rigid bodies, deformable objects and contact calculations within the same framework. NVIDIA says it is a foundation for accelerating training and evaluation workflows when used with Isaac Lab and Isaac Sim.