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According to a post on X by @yuvaltassa, Google DeepMind's Yuval Tassa announced MuJoCo 4 alongside Playground 1.0. The update adds Studio tooling, improved deformable physics, and speculative contacts for thin or fast objects. Release notes claim 6–9× speedups on examples including humanoid stair climbing and thin-object grasping, rather than on every simulation. The snippet also notes the change lands just before CoRL.
According to a post on X by @yuvaltassa, Google DeepMind's Yuval Tassa announced MuJoCo 4 alongside Playground 1.0. The update adds Studio tooling, improved deformable physics, and speculative contacts for thin or fast objects. Release notes claim 6–9× speedups on examples including humanoid stair climbing and thin-object grasping, rather than on every simulation. The snippet also notes the change lands just before CoRL.
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Google DeepMind’s Yuval Tassa announces MuJoCo 4 alongside Playground 1.0, with Studio tooling, improved deformable physics and speculative contacts for thin or fast objects. Release notes claim 6–9× speedups on examples including humanoid stair climbing and thin-object grasping, rather than every simulation. A...
Robotics researchers and teams that use MuJoCo could see faster experiments on certain humanoid and grasping tasks, though the speedups are claimed only for the named examples. The new contact handling and deformable physics may matter most for manipulation work. Watch for independent benchmarks and how the new tooling performs in practice before changing existing pipelines.
Hardware and robotics watchers may want to track whether this becomes a product, benchmark, or deployment signal.
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