Tutorials

These tutorial notebooks help you get started with Newton. They can be opened in Colab, but runtime resources and GPU availability can vary. When a notebook detects that it is running in Colab, its first code cell installs the notebook dependencies from PyPI.

Open the notebooks directly in Colab:

• Introduction

• Robotics

You can also explore the examples in the newton/examples/ directory for more use cases.

Tutorial Notebooks

• Introduction to Newton Physics
  • Setup and Imports
  • Building a Model with ModelBuilder
  • Creating States and Control
  • Setting Up the Solver
  • Configuring the Simulation Loop
  • GPU Acceleration with CUDA Graphs
  • Visualization
  • Running the Simulation
  • Next Steps
• Newton Robotics 101: From Concepts to Manipulation
  • Roadmap
  • Setup and Imports
  • Core Concepts
  • Newton is based on NVIDIA Warp
  • 1) From ModelBuilder to Model
  • 2) Solver and Simulation Loop
  • 3) Performance: CUDA Graph Capture
  • 4) Load a Robot and Apply Joint Forces
  • 5) Joint Targets with Control.joint_target_q
  • Inverse Kinematics (IK) in Newton
  • 6) IK Path Following
  • 7) Manipulation: Franka Pick-and-Place with IK + Gripper Control
  • Wrap-Up and Next Steps