Eric Heiden

Research in robotics and simulators @NVIDIA.
Building Newton

[NVIDIA Robotics @NVIDIARobotics]

Newton 1.0 is now generally available. 🙌

Take robot learning to the next level with:

🤖 Stable Articulated & Complex Mechanism Simulation – accurate, reliable machine modeling.

🖐️ High-Fidelity Hydroelastic Contact Modeling – realistic soft contact and touch-based interactions.

🧵 Deformable Body Simulation – simulate cables, cloth, rubber, and other elastic materials with VBD.

⚡ Accelerated Robot Learning at Scale – seamless integration with open simulation and learning frameworks, NVIDIA Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab for scalable workflows.

Learn how to integrate this open-source physics engine into your workflow: https://t.co/b0HmPpiEXv

#NVIDIAGTC

[Jason Peng @xbpeng4]

For all the MuJoCo fans: MimicKit now supports Newton / MuJoCo Warp! Fast, lightweight MuJoCo physics with Warp acceleration.
https://t.co/6imXPPEwXl

Coming up: God's physics engine

[Mohammad Mohajerani @momoxvan]

🚀 Newton Beta 2 and roadmap to 1.0 is out. SDF-based collisions & hydroelastic contacts for manipulation, cable-type deformables in VBD solver, stronger MuJoCo Warp integration and a new L-BFGS optimizer for IK solver are among major features of Beta. https://t.co/3S4nU02WsB

[NVIDIA HPC Developer @NVIDIAHPCDev]

We are honored that our NVIDIA Warp has received two @HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards this year.

🏆 Best HPC Programming Tool or Technology
🏆 Top 5 New Products or Technologies to Watch

NVIDIA Warp, an #opensource CUDA-X library, accelerates computational physics by up to 245x.

📗 Learn how Warp can transform your workflow: https://t.co/ygyKE45cEh

📝 Dive deeper into the latest release: https://t.co/5ZOsgDaMpj

#HPCwireRCA25 #SC25

[Two Minute Papers @twominutepapers]

A robot that learns in its dreams - and then those dreams come true. 🤯 It studies physics until it no longer needs equations, just intuition. They call it NeRD: Neural Robot Dynamics. The student that beat the teacher. What a time to be alive! Full video: https://t.co/6T5YO4X0vM

[Miles Macklin @milesmacklin]

Good summary of our paper on neural physics - fine tuning learned simulators on real world data is indeed a key motivation. Another nice property is that now your physics engine can run on Tensor Cores and can benefit from all the hardware NVIDIA develops to make LLMs go fast.

[NVIDIA Robotics @NVIDIARobotics]

Let's hear it for the community. 🎉 The Newton project, an open-source physics engine for robotics simulation, is now part of the @linuxfoundation.

This is a huge step toward building a truly community-driven future for robotics research and development.

[NVIDIA Robotics @NVIDIARobotics]

The laws of physics apply everywhere. ⚛️

Co-developed by NVIDIA, @GoogleDeepMind and Disney Research, Walt Disney Imagineering, the new Newton Beta, managed by the @linuxfoundation, now also runs with Isaac Lab and with MuJoCo Warp, which delivers warp speed for robot learning.

Learn how to train a quadruped and simulate multiphysics in our tech blog. 🔗 https://t.co/PWipNIb6fS

#CoRL2025

[Carolina Parada @parada_car88104]

📣 #MuJoCo Announcement 📣 : MuJoCo Warp is now available in MJX for all MuJoCo Playground environments, achieving up to 2x speedup in more complex contact-rich scenes. Check it out and have fun!

@GoogleDeepMind Robotics

https://t.co/5zDpLfln5N

[Eric Heiden @eric_heiden]

@ryancjulian @DrJimFan @yukez @nvidia Congrats and welcome to NVIDIA, Ryan!

[Eric Heiden @eric_heiden]

@gauravsukhatme @bingjietang07 @CSatUSC @USCViterbi @USCAdvComputing @uscresl Congratulations @bingjietang07!

[Siyuan Huang @siyuanhuang95]

🤖🤖🤖 Following RoboVerse, we introduce another work focused on Robotic Tactile Simulation - Taccel Simulator. Taccel is a high-performance simulation platform for vision-based tactile sensors and robots.

🚀🚀🚀 Boosted by Nvidia Warp, we optimize Taccel with highly parallelized simulations and support 900fps simulation with 4k+ parallel training envs.

🤝🤝🤝 Taccel is designed with user-friendly APIs and is easy to use. We open-sourced all the code and documentation. Feel free to try!

Project: https://t.co/AT0G7MGzqX
Preprint: https://t.co/wSMUqBCwQB
Code: https://t.co/H5CxVjg5Ke

[Miles Macklin @milesmacklin]

You can read more about Newton here: https://t.co/57vAlnPvDo, and if you're at GTC come by the NVIDIA booth to chat with us about physics simulation and robotics!

[Carolina Parada @parada_car88104]

📣MuJoCo announcement 📣

Thrilled to share that @GoogleDeepMind has unveiled MuJoCo-Warp at @nvidia's #GTC25!

🚀 We've expanded our open-source MuJoCo simulator with MuJoCo-Warp, leveraging NVIDIA’s Warp framework for incredible acceleration. This marks a significant step in making high-performance simulation more accessible.

[Miles Macklin @milesmacklin]

Big news from Jensen at GTC: NVIDIA Warp is now open source under Apache 2.0! We’re also building Newton, a new physics engine for robotics with DeepMind and Disney—based on Warp and fully open-source.

[NVIDIA Robotics @NVIDIARobotics]

Register for the @GoogleDeepMind session at #GTC25 to learn how Google integrates core NVIDIA technologies like Warp to improve simulation performance for #humanoid robotics development.

Register Now ➡️ https://t.co/dDKbKJlQJV

[Miles Macklin @milesmacklin]

NVIDIA Warp 1.6.0 is out! Including native Blackwell support, up to 2x faster geometric queries, and tile-based Cholesky decompositions. Full CHANGELOG here: https://t.co/g0NQuBr1uQ

[Miles Macklin @milesmacklin]

Just in time for Christmas, Warp 1.5.0 adds support for TensorCore operations in Python kernels! Excited to see what folks build with this, check out our developer blog for details: https://t.co/VXv0REWn97

[Eric Heiden @eric_heiden]

Excited to present Warp at the CoRL Workshop on Differentiable Optimization tomorrow, Nov 9, at 9am! Join us to explore how to build differentiable simulators with Warp. #CoRL2024
https://t.co/6mVfww7X5z

[Miles Macklin @milesmacklin]

NVIDIA Warp 1.4.0 is out! This release significantly improves our Python language support with the ability to evaluate static expressions at compile-time using our wp.static() builtin. It also includes over 30 bug fixes and Github issue updates. Enjoy! https://t.co/paN53C5Woy