MuJoCo 4.0 and Playground 1.0 ship: dented clay, creased paper, 6-9x faster grasping
DynamicWebPaige · x · 2026-11-10
Google DeepMind's robotics sim team and 45+ open-source contributors (2K commits) released MuJoCo 4.0 and MuJoCo Playground 1.0: a zero-install web viewer, Filament PBR with hot-reload in MuJoCo Studio, deformables (dentable clay, creaseable paper, non-clipping cloth), speculative contacts delivering 6–9x faster thin-object grasping, and an end-to-end PyTorch + MuJoCo Warp sim-to-real pipeline. Install: pip install -U mujoco.
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