Simulating physics is central to robotics: before a robot ever moves in the real world, much of its learning, testing, and control happens in a virtual environment. But traditional simulators often ...

A 20-year-old college student has rebuilt Portal, Valve's 2007 space-bending game, from the ground up, on—wait for it—a graphing calculator. In a display that puts the old calculator versions of Mario ...

WTF?! It's not a Bethesda game if you can't hoard thousands of useless tiny objects in one room. Starfield maintains this amusing trait of the developer's past titles and pushes it to a new level with ...

Technically speaking, an engine is a device that converts some form of energy into mechanical energy. Taking that definition ...

At CoRL, NVIDIA today announced that the open‑source Newton Physics Engine is now available in NVIDIA Isaac Lab, along with the open NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1.6 reasoning vision language action model for ...

Back in May, the gameplay clip that had everyone talking was of a lava bridge in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Developers were impressed by the game’s robust physics engine, noting that ...

Earlier this year I met the Massachusetts-based steampunk artist Bruce Rosenbaum at the Global Physics Summit of the American ...