Overview

• Newton enters beta as an open-source, GPU-accelerated physics engine under the Linux Foundation, co-developed with Google DeepMind and Disney Research and built on NVIDIA Warp and OpenUSD.
• Designed for humanoids’ complex control, Newton interoperates with NVIDIA Isaac Lab and MuJoCo Playground to simulate contact‑rich tasks and challenging terrains.
• Isaac GR00T N1.6 integrates the Cosmos Reason vision‑language model, which has surpassed 1 million downloads and leads Hugging Face’s Physical Reasoning leaderboard, with Cosmos Reason offered as a NIM microservice.
• Isaac Lab 2.3 introduces a grasping workflow validated with Boston Dynamics’ Atlas, the Isaac Lab – Arena framework for scalable skill evaluation, and Cosmos World Foundation Models for synthetic data generation.
• Early adopters include ETH Zurich’s Robotic Systems Lab, Technical University of Munich, Peking University, Lightwheel and Style3D, while NVIDIA outlined GB200 NVL72 systems, RTX PRO Servers and Jetson Thor modules for training and on‑robot inference.