Newton Physics

license

Apache-2.0(LICENSE.md

source

public

core features withheld

no — the optional rtx extra pulls NVIDIA's proprietary OVRTX renderer, which Newton does not ship

Newton is Apache-2.0 code built on Apache-2.0 foundations, Warp and MuJoCo Warp, and has no paid edition. One optional install extra adds NVIDIA's proprietary Omniverse RTX renderer; the engine and its own ray-traced camera sensor work without it.

• https://pypi.org/pypi/ovrtx/json recorded 2026-09-27

  PyPI metadata for ovrtx: summary "Omniverse RTX", author NVIDIA Corporation, license_expression LicenseRef-NvidiaProprietary.

• https://ungh.cc/repos/newton-physics/newton/files/main/LICENSE.md recorded 2026-09-27

  LICENSE.md: the Apache License, Version 2.0 text.

• https://ungh.cc/repos/newton-physics/newton/files/main/pyproject.toml recorded 2026-09-27

  pyproject.toml: name = "newton", license = "Apache-2.0", dependency "warp-lang>=1.17.0", "mujoco-warp~=3.12.0" in the sim extra, and rtx = ["ovrtx>=0.3"] (NVIDIA OVRTX renderer) as an optional extra.

• https://ungh.cc/repos/newton-physics/newton/files/main/README.md recorded 2026-09-27

  README: "Code is licensed under Apache-2.0. Documentation is licensed under CC-BY-4.0"; "Newton is a Linux Foundation project that is community-built and maintained"; "Newton was initiated by Disney Research, Google DeepMind, and NVIDIA"; no pricing or paid tier.

• https://ungh.cc/repos/newton-physics/newton/releases/latest recorded 2026-09-27

  Latest release v1.6.0, published 2026-09-10.

• https://ungh.cc/repos/NVIDIA/warp/files/main/LICENSE.md recorded 2026-09-27

  NVIDIA Warp LICENSE.md: Copyright (c) 2022 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES, under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

PyPI installs of the newton package, which is the engine itself.

• https://newton-physics.github.io/newton/latest/guide/installation.html recorded 2026-09-27

  Installation guide: "the recommended way to install Newton from PyPI ... pip install newton".

• https://pypi.org/pypi/newton/json recorded 2026-09-27

  PyPI metadata for newton 1.6.0: author_email Newton Developers <developers@newton-physics.org>, license_expression Apache-2.0, project_urls null; the long description is the repository README and links github.com/newton-physics/newton.

• https://pypistats.org/api/packages/newton/recent recorded 2026-09-27

  pypistats: last_month 249,011 downloads for newton.

Newton has GPU-parallel worlds, ray-traced cameras across them and more physics backends than any engine here, from MuJoCo to cloth and granular solvers. What it ships for robots are examples, not a library of ready-to-train tasks, which is what separates Isaac Lab.

• https://newton-physics.github.io/newton/latest/api/newton_sensors.html recorded 2026-09-27

  Sensors API: "SensorTiledCamera Warp-based tiled camera sensor for raytraced rendering across multiple worlds"; SensorContact, SensorIMU, SensorFrameTransform.

• https://newton-physics.github.io/newton/latest/guide/overview.html recorded 2026-09-27

  Overview: "GPU-accelerated, extensible, and differentiable physics simulation engine"; "Multiple solver implementations : XPBD, VBD, MuJoCo, Featherstone, SemiImplicit, Kamino, ImplicitMPM, and Style3D"; "Load models from URDF, MJCF, USD".

• https://ungh.cc/repos/newton-physics/newton/files/main/README.md recorded 2026-09-27

  README: "integrates MuJoCo Warp as its primary backend"; "NVIDIA GPU (Maxwell or newer)"; robot examples example_robot_allegro_hand, example_robot_anymal_c_walk, example_robot_g1, example_robot_h1, example_robot_ur10, example_robot_policy.