NVIDIA Launches Newton Physics Engine and Isaac GR00T N1.6 at CoRL 2025
NVIDIA introduced the open-source, GPU-accelerated Newton physics engine, co-developed with Google DeepMind and Disney Research, to enhance robot simulation capabilities. The Isaac GR00T N1.6 model integrates Cosmos Reason, a vision language model that enables robots to interpret ambiguous instructions and generalize across tasks. These advancements aim to accelerate the development of physical AI by providing developers with tools for more accurate simulations and improved robot reasoning.
Evidence notes
- NVIDIA introduced the open-source, GPU-accelerated Newton physics engine, co-developed with Google DeepMind and Disney Research, to enhance robot simulation capabilities.
- The Isaac GR00T N1.6 model integrates Cosmos Reason, a vision language model that enables robots to interpret ambiguous instructions and generalize across tasks.
- These advancements aim to accelerate the development of physical AI by providing developers with tools for more accurate simulations and improved robot reasoning.
Company context
NVIDIA is a compute and AI infrastructure company providing the simulation, training, edge-compute and model platforms used across modern robotics. Its stack includes tools for robot learning, digital twins, perception and on-device inference.