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Massively parallel rigidbody physics simulation on accelerator hardware.

4 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2021-06-28 · latest 2023-04-07

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…physics simulator written in Jax. It includes Gym tasks such as Ant, Humanoid and more: https://github.com/google/brax It is not full MuJoCo but a good base to add more features. Aside from position based dynamics (xpbd) it features motion…
comment by erwincoumans · 2023-04-07 · in 4000x Speedup in Reinforcement Learning with Jax
…the Brax team, basically accelerating a physics engine written in Python run on accelerators, see https://github.com/google/brax The entire physics step, including collision detection and physics solver, is jit compiled.
comment by erwincoumans · 2022-01-24 · in Faster CPython (2021) [pdf]
I wonder what this means for the future of Brax [1]. 1. https://github.com/google/brax
comment by cepher · 2021-10-18 · in Open-sourcing the MuJoCo physics simulator for robotics