# Bad Influence story: Google DeepMind releases MuJoCo 4.0 and MuJoCo Playground 1.0 for robotics simulation

Active · 1 article · 1 source · First reported 11-09 12:10. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/96b6e3af-c93a-4d74-abc5-07948ca03b67

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Latest update (11-09 12:10): Google DeepMind releases MuJoCo 4.0 and MuJoCo Playground 1.0 for robotics simulation

Overview: Google DeepMind has released MuJoCo 4.0 and MuJoCo Playground 1.0, according to Paige Bailey's post on X. The release adds a zero-install web viewer and Filament PBR rendering with hot-reload in MuJoCo Studio. Bailey says it also adds speculative contacts that make thin-object grasping 6–9x faster, and end-to-end sim-to-real with PyTorch and MuJoCo Warp in Playground 1.0.

Bailey credits Google DeepMind's robotics sim team and more than 45 open-source contributors for about 2K commits. The post gives the install command pip install -U mujoco. The 6–9x speed figure is Bailey's claim and is not supported by a benchmark in the report.

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1. 11-09 12:10 · Paige Bailey · [Google DeepMind releases MuJoCo 4.0 and MuJoCo Playground 1.0 for robotics simulation](https://badinfluence.news/items/gpe84wjtppq30q81pps1tbf94)
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