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Newton is an open-source, GPU-accelerated physics simulation engine built on NVIDIA Warp for roboticists and simulation researchers.

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Product information

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Category
Robot Development
Maturityi
Available
Deploymenti
Self-hosted
Buying / access
Buy or sign up directly
Source
Official websiteChecked Sep 18, 2026

Reality check

A demo shows what may be possible. These points help judge whether the product fits day-to-day use.

Works well when
  • Simulation, control, perception and repeatable experiments
  • Teams that can manage dependencies and hardware interfaces
  • Prototyping before committing to a physical deployment
What to check
  • Supported hardware, GPU requirements and version compatibility
  • Documentation, examples and community response
  • How simulation results transfer to the real robot
Not a magic solution
  • A guarantee that simulation equals a production cell
  • A replacement for safety validation on hardware
  • A low-maintenance toolchain without version ownership

About

Newton is an open-source, GPU-accelerated physics simulation engine built upon NVIDIA Warp, initiated by Disney Research, Google DeepMind, and NVIDIA as a Linux Foundation project. It extends and generalizes Warp's deprecated warp.sim module and integrates MuJoCo Warp as its primary backend, emphasizing GPU-based computation, OpenUSD support, differentiability, and user-defined extensibility. It targets roboticists and simulation researchers, with examples covering robots, controllers, cables, cloth, inverse kinematics, MPM, sensors, and differentiable simulation. Code is licensed under Apache-2.0 and documentation under CC-BY-4.0.

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Product details

Manufacturer / team
Disney Research, Google DeepMind, and NVIDIA (Linux Foundation project)
Product typei
Framework
Open source

The cost iceberg

The purchase price is only one part of an automation project.

GPU, simulation assets and hardware adapters
Dependencies, datasets and test infrastructure
Version pinning, documentation and support
Sim-to-real gaps and safety validation