NVIDIA's ProtoMotions: GPU-Accelerated Simulation Framework for Humanoids
carlosdponx · x · 2026-08-14
NVIDIA's NVlabs has released the August update for ProtoMotions, a GPU-accelerated simulation and learning framework designed for training physically simulated digital humans and humanoid robots.
Key updates in this release include:
- Support for IsaacLab 3 and Newton 1.0
- MJCF-first humanoid assets
- Forward Kinematics (FK) that can be ONNX compiled
- Motion shard hot-swapping during training
The open-source project has surpassed 2.3k stars on GitHub.
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