Robotics-friendly deformable solver FBA lands in NVIDIA's Newton physics engine
ChongZzZhang · x · 2026-10-26
FBA, a deformable simulation solver billed as the most robotics-friendly, is landing in PranaLabs' fork of NVIDIA's Newton — an open-source GPU-accelerated physics engine built on NVIDIA Warp for roboticists.
A collaborator reports its early "baby" version already enabled sim2real cloth folding within minutes to hours. Newton is supported by NVIDIA Robotics and the team invites community feedback.
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