MuJoCo 4 ships with Studio, deformables and speculative contacts as ecosystem hits 3.6M monthly downloads
benno_krojer · x · 2026-11-08
Google DeepMind's team released MuJoCo 4 alongside MuJoCo Playground 1.0:
- New features: Studio & Filament integration, deformables, speculative contacts
- Ecosystem: 3.6M monthly PyPI downloads, 16K+ GitHub stars, 45+ external contributors with 2K commits in the past year
- Ongoing collaborations: MuJoCo Warp with NVIDIA, and Newton (under Linux Foundation) with NVIDIA, Disney, TRI and others
- Python package split into a minimal mujoco-core plus optional components; mujoco.org is now an interactive in-browser 4.0 showcase
Related event: DeepMind Releases MuJoCo 4 with Deformable Bodies and Studio(2 posts)→
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