NVIDIA Unveils Open Models and Simulation Libraries to Accelerate Robotics Development

NVIDIA has announced a suite of open-source tools designed to accelerate robotics research and development. These include: * **Newton Physics Engine:** A GPU-accelerated, open-source physics engine co-developed with Google DeepMind and Disney Research, now available in NVIDIA Isaac Lab. * **Isaac GR00T N1.6:** An open foundation model bringing human-like reasoning to robots, enabling them to understand instructions and execute tasks using prior knowledge. * **Cosmos World Foundation Models:** Allows developers to generate diverse data for training physical AI models at scale. These technologies aim to provide developers and researchers with an open, accelerated robotics platform that speeds iteration, standardizes testing, unifies training with on-robot inference, and helps robots transfer skills safely from simulation to the real world. Leading universities and robotics developers are already adopting NVIDIA's Isaac and Omniverse technologies to advance their research and development efforts.