isaac-sim/IsaacSim
NVIDIA Isaac Sim™ is an open-source application on NVIDIA Omniverse for developing, simulating, and testing AI-driven robots in realistic virtual environments. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
74/100
- Activity 90
- Release rhythm 77
- Longevity 33
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 74
- age_days: 462
- days_rel: 72
- days_push: 62
- n_releases_24m: 4
Adoption not part of the score
3960 stars · 530 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
NVIDIA Isaac Sim is an open-source robotics simulation application built on NVIDIA Omniverse for developing, simulating, and testing AI-driven robots in physically based virtual environments. It supports URDF/MJCF/CAD import, GPU-accelerated physics, RTX sensor rendering, synthetic data generation, reinforcement learning via Isaac Lab, and ROS 2 integration.
Use cases
- simulate robots in realistic virtual environments
- generate synthetic training data for robot perception
- train robots with reinforcement learning in simulation
- test ROS 2 robot stacks with software-in-the-loop simulation
- import URDF or CAD robot models and simulate them
- build digital twins of robotic workcells
- validate robot hardware with hardware-in-the-loop testing
When to choose
- you need high-fidelity GPU-accelerated physics and photorealistic sensor simulation for robotics
- you want synthetic data generation pipelines for training perception models
- you need ROS 2 integration for testing robot software stacks
- you are doing robot learning with Isaac Lab (RL, imitation learning, motion planning)
When to avoid
- you only need lightweight 2D robot simulation without GPU requirements
- you lack an RTX GPU or meet the minimum hardware requirements
- you need a fully permissive license for redistribution (license is custom Apache-2.0 with NVIDIA terms)
- your project is unrelated to robotics or physical simulation
Facets
application · maturity active
simulation machine-learning computer-vision data-generation robotics gpu-computing sdk robotics simulation artificial-intelligence machine-learning autonomous-vehicles computer-vision windows python cross-platform robot-simulation synthetic-data-generation omniverse usd ros2 reinforcement-learning digital-twin physx urdf nvidia linux docker gpu
9 sources
- readme: https://github.com/isaac-sim/IsaacSim · fetched 2026-08-28 · 24573ce37eb8
- homepage: https://developer.nvidia.com/isaac/sim · fetched 2026-08-29 · 8dfcca820a15
- site_page: https://docs.isaacsim.omniverse.nvidia.com/5.1.0/installation/install_advanced_cloud_setup_brev.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · d35100cc896f
- site_page: https://docs.isaacsim.omniverse.nvidia.com/latest/introduction/quickstart_index.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 5908a9213b32
- site_page: https://docs.omniverse.nvidia.com/isaacsim/latest/features/sensors_simulation/index.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 843f73c3328c
- site_page: https://docs.isaacsim.omniverse.nvidia.com/latest/installation/requirements.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · e14439f034e1
- site_page: https://docs.isaacsim.omniverse.nvidia.com/latest/installation/install_ros.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 42f3a6f9e3d1
- site_page: https://docs.isaacsim.omniverse.nvidia.com/latest/installation/install_faq.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 09039b534d74
- site_page: https://docs.isaacsim.omniverse.nvidia.com/5.1.0/installation/download.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · d494f755149c
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| isaac-sim/IsaacSim | main | 74 |
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