The laws of physics apply everywhere. ⚛️ Co-developed by... NVIDIA, Google DeepMind and Disney Research, Walt Disney Imagineering, the new Newton Beta, managed by the The Linux Foundation, now also runs with Isaac Lab and with MuJoCo Warp, which delivers warp speed for robot learning. Learn how to train a quadruped and simulate multiphysics in our tech blog. 🔗 #CoRL2025show more

[News] 🚨⚠️ CLOSER LOOK AT OLAF ROBOT FOR DISNEY... ADVENTURE WORLD! ➡️ Walt Disney Imagineering unveils its most advanced autonomous character : the new Olaf robot, featured also in the series We Call It Imagineering. The robot will premiere for the opening of World of Frozen in 2026! ➡️ This video was taken during the Disney Adventure World Press event. A couple of details we learned : ➖ Fully electric next-gen platform with free-roaming capability ➖ 41 actuated motions enabling high-fidelity facial animation ➖ Soft, deformable exterior and animation-accurate motion design focused on believability ➖ “Deep Reinforcement Learning and Newton-based simulation for movement training” ➖ Tech collaborations with NVIDIA and Google DeepMind. ➡️ A major step forward for autonomous character robotics in the parks, another brilliant work done by #Imagineering ! #DisneylandParis [FULL VIDEO HERE :show more

NEW: Walt Disney Imagineering recently went on a research... trip to Arizona for the Cars-themed area coming to Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World. The team rented off-road vehicles to experience the terrain and create an authentic experience with the new rally race attraction.show more

Newton 1.0 is now generally available. 🙌 Take robot... learning to the next level with: 🤖 Stable Articulated & Complex Mechanism Simulation – accurate, reliable machine modeling. 🖐️ High-Fidelity Hydroelastic Contact Modeling – realistic soft contact and touch-based interactions. 🧵 Deformable Body Simulation – simulate cables, cloth, rubber, and other elastic materials with VBD. ⚡ Accelerated Robot Learning at Scale – seamless integration with open simulation and learning frameworks, NVIDIA Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab for scalable workflows. Learn how to integrate this open-source physics engine into your workflow: #NVIDIAGTCshow more

#NVIDIAIsaac Sim 5.0 and Isaac Lab 2.2 are now... available in early developer preview on Github. 🎉 These releases give #Robotics developers early access to cutting-edge tools to simulate, train, and validate robots in a physics-based simulation environment. What’s new? ✅Open-source ✅Extensions for synthetic data generation ✅Robot models Read the tech blog to learn more ➡️ #GTCParis #VivaTechshow more

The wait is over. 🥁 NVIDIA Isaac Sim 5.0... and Isaac Lab 2.2 are now generally available. Dive in and start to simulate, train, and validate your AI-powered robots with these new key features: ⚡ Instant GPU access via NVIDIA Brev 🤖 3D #GaussianSplatting with NVIDIA Omniverse NuRec libraries 📈 Policy evaluation in Isaac Lab and more. Get started 👉 #NVIDIARobotics #SIGGRAPH2025show more

Bringing new meaning to the word NeRD at #CoRL2025.... 🤓 Neural Robot Dynamics (NeRD) bridges the sim-to-real gap with a hybrid of neural modeling and analytical simulation, unlocking zero-shot transfer and continuous learning loops for optimal robotics training. Read more & try it in Newton 🤖show more

The 2023-2024 Laura Bush Foundation for America’s Libraries grant... application is now open through November 27. The Laura Bush Foundation provides funds to our nation’s schools so they can extend, update and diversify the book and print collections in their libraries with the goal of encouraging students to develop a love of reading and learning. 📚Learn more and apply: Laura Bushshow more

Bring new robot testing environments to life with World... Labs and Isaac Sim. 🤖 If you can describe a world 🌎, you can start testing in it the same day. Learn how to: 1. Export scenes from World Labs' Marble as Gaussian splats 2. Convert to USD using NVIDIA Omniverse NuRec 3. Import into NVIDIA Isaac Sim 4. Add a robot and run the simulation Read the guide ➡️ #SIGGRAPHAsia2025show more

Building robots that can effectively operate alongside human workers... is difficult. 🛠️ Advances in open-source physics, open foundation models, and frameworks are helping accelerate physical #AI deployment. ✔️ Newton Physics Engine, an open-source GPU-powered simulation built on OpenUSD, speeds up robot learning for advanced manipulation and mobility. ✔️ NVIDIA Cosmos Reason, an open reasoning vision language model, gives robots the ability to think like humans using prior knowledge, common sense and physics ✔️NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1.6, an open robot foundation model, enables humanoids to understand ambiguous instructions Leading robotics developers including Agility Robotics, Lightwheel, Mentee Robotics, UniversalRobots, and Wandelbots are adopting simulation technologies and libraries to accelerate physical AI development and deployment. Omniverse Ambassador Dylan Tobin built an AI chatbot trained on Isaac Sim workflows, helping devs navigate Omniverse faster. Read the full blog 👉show more

"It all started with a Mouse" - Walt Disney,... 1954 I'm incredibly excited to introduce DisneyPinnacle 💫, our newest platform in collaboration with Disney Built for the biggest Disney fans exclusively on Flow.com DisneyPinnacle is a first of its kind digital pin collecting and trading experience letting fans around the world join communities and showcase their passion for characters and stories from 100 years of Disney, Pixar, and Star Wars. An amazing way to celebrate #Disney100 Starting today, Disney fans can give us a follow on any of the official Disney Pinnacle social media communities and submit their email for early access invitations. Just look for DisneyPinnacle on your favorite platform 💌 This news has a special significance for me personally. Walt Disney's story was an inspiration for me as a founder. Walt would have loved Web3 because Web3 unlocks our creativity, our inner child, our dreams, connecting creators and storytellers to their audience like never before. It is very Disney. We're honored to bring Walt’s legacy into the future with DisneyPinnacle #onFlow 🌊 Hey Dieter Shirley 🌊, I guess Kitties and Mice can be best friends after allshow more

🚀 Warp x Pixward Games: New Game Publishing Partnership... We’re thrilled that Pixward Games, the makers of Boss Fighters, has chosen to work with Warp as its games publisher! 🎮 Why Pixward Leads the Space 🎨 Proven Innovators in Game Development: Founded by veterans with years of experience creating both VR and PC/console titles for global partners. 🌍 From B2B to Hits: After years of building games for clients, Pixward moved on to create their own IP — the community-loved BOSS FIGHTERS. 🧠 Tech-Forward Vision: Blending blockchain, real player ownership, and AI to create next-gen play loops with real market value. 💥 What This Means for Warp This partnership expands our publishing portfolio and grows the Warp ecosystem. We’re combining strengths to build future games that raise the bar for players and creators alike. The next level is loading 🕹️💫show more

The first maglev train in China with a speed... of 600 km/h, with the code name CF600-0001, has shown its majesty under the lens of railway photographers. This maglev train is a major breakthrough for China's railway, marking a new advancement in high-speed rail technology. A maglev train is a high-speed train that utilizes electromagnetic force for levitation and is propelled by magnetic power, capable of traveling at astonishing speeds on maglev tracks. The CF600-0001 is China's first maglev train with a speed reaching 600 kilometers per hour, drawing global attention due to its high speed and advanced technology. The design of this maglev train incorporates the latest materials and techniques, including lightweight alloys, carbon fiber, and other high-strength materials, ensuring stability and safety during high-speed operation. Additionally, advanced control and power systems guarantee the train's high-speed operation and comfort. The successful research and operation of maglev trains by China's railway will bring revolutionary changes to high-speed railway transportation both domestically and internationally. This will not only significantly reduce travel time, but also promote the internationalization and globalization of China's high-speed rail technology. Railway photographers have captured the magnificent sight of this maglev train through their lenses, allowing people to witness the new achievements of China's high-speed rail technology and showcasing China's leading position in the field of transportation and logistics.show more

Walt Disney Studios Deutschland has given a first look... to "Hai-Di The Shark" voiced by popular model and actress Heidi Klum in the German dub of "HOPPERS". 🦈🦫 Unknow if Klum's role is also for the U.S version, maybe Daniel Chong knows more. #Hoppers #PixarHoppersshow more

OPINION: ELON AND THE DAWN OF THE WARP AGE... While the rest of the world is busy arguing about the present, Elon has been playing a multi-century game of chess. Most people remember his 2013 conference talk for the Hyperloop reveal, but the real bombshell was his take on the Alcubierre Drive. Proposed by theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre in 1994, the Alcubierre Drive is a speculative metric that allows a spacecraft to achieve apparent faster-than-light travel. Instead of a ship accelerating through space, which is limited by (the speed of light), the drive manipulates space itself. It works by contracting the fabric of space in front of the vessel and expanding it behind. Essentially, the ship sits in a "bubble" of flat spacetime, effectively "surfing" on a wave of warped reality. Elon did not just call warp drive science fiction; he broke down the physics of warping space so that space itself does the traveling. When you have a mind that views the speed of light not as a ceiling but as a technical challenge to be engineered around, the future starts looking a lot more like Star Trek and a lot less like a stagnant rock in the vacuum. Elon was a decade ahead of the curve. Back then, he noted that while SpaceX was focused on the immediate Mars roadmap, breakthroughs in warp theory were already bubbling at places like NASA. Fast forward to late 2025, and the vision is becoming reality. Former NASA Administrator Charles Bolden once admitted the goal was warp speed, and groundbreaking research even suggested we are finally moving toward manipulating spacetime without needing the impossible amounts of exotic matter we once feared. Source: Journal of Modern Physics, The Debrief, AllThingsD, Elon Muskshow more

Shopify is building the foundation for agentic commerce. Universal... Commerce Protocol, which we co-developed with Google, is now live. UCP will make it faster for agents and retailers to integrate. It’s open by default, so platforms and agents can use UCP to start transacting with any merchant. Major retailers are already using it. Agents can handle everything from discovery to fulfillment, and support things like discounts, subscriptions, and loyalty programs. We’ve accounted for all types of commerce.show more

🚨 BREAKING: NVIDIA just announced the Isaac GR00T Reference... Humanoid Robot. The first fully open humanoid robot reference design built on Jetson Thor, and it's going straight to the world's top research institutions. This is Jensen Huang's bet on open physical AI infrastructure. The hardware stack is serious: → Unitree H2 Plus chassis, 6 feet tall, 150 pounds, 31 degrees of freedom → Sharpa Wave tactile five-finger hands, 22 degrees of freedom, bringing total to 75 across the full body → NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor onboard compute, 2,070 FP4 teraflops of AI performance, 128GB unified memory → Multi-view sensing, stereo head camera, wrist cameras, IMU Alongside this announcement, Unitree also introduced the H2 Plus as a standalone product, a frontier humanoid combining Unitree's own body, Sharpa's five-finger hands and NVIDIA Robotics Jetson Thor compute into one fully integrated research platform. The full Isaac GR00T software stack ships with it, teleoperation for data capture, open foundation models, Isaac Sim for training, Isaac Lab for evaluation, and accelerated ROS middleware for deployment. The complete loop from data to real-world robot in one unified platform. ETH Zürich, Stanford Robotics Center, UC San Diego and Ai2 are already on board as launch research partners. NVIDIA Robotics did to AI what it's now doing to robotics, build the platform, open the ecosystem, let the world build on top of it. Whoever owns the infrastructure layer wins. NVIDIA knows this better than anyone. 👀 Read more here: ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →show more