Newton
GPU-accelerated differentiable physics simulation engine built on NVIDIA Warp, supporting rigid/soft body, cloth, and gradient-based optimization for scientific ML, initiated by Disney Research, DeepMind, and NVIDIA (Linux Foundation, Apache 2.0, 2025)
- Repository
- github.com/newton-physics/newton
Source attribution
- Awesome AI for Science — github.com/newton-physics/newton
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