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@github-actions github-actions Bot added documentation Improvements or additions to documentation isaac-lab labels May 20, 2026
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Contains a few minor updates and patches to visualizers.

- Disable default browser launch to Rerun & Viser visualizers
- Add explicit logging urls to Rerun & Viser which appear before
simulation loop
- Reduce visualizer num sim steps in unit tests
- Unskip all visualizer cartpole integration tests
- Add focal length to visualizer cfg, for flexibility, align default
visualizer cams, and add more consistency to tests
- Expand pausing checks for Kit & Rerun tests
- Fix frozen robot bodies in newton visualizers with physx
- Add a save visualizer test captures mode to visualizer cartpole unit
test (disabled by default)
- Re-enable visualization markers when no visualizer is launched
- Fix Newton Visualizer visualization marker regression
- Expose remote desktop config for Viser Visualizer
- Align Viser Visualizer docs with other visualizers
- Update docs to reflect the changes

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…ling (isaac-sim#5443)

# Description

Introduces experimental Newton-backend deformable simulation alongside
the existing PhysX deformables, refactors deformable APIs to be
backend-neutral, and adds the manager-based Franka soft-body lifting
environment used to validate two-way coupling.

### Backend-neutral deformable APIs (`isaaclab`)
- Moved deformable schemas, materials, spawners, and
`DeformableObjectCfg` out of `isaaclab_physx` into `isaaclab.sim` /
`isaaclab.assets` so user code imports a single backend-agnostic API.
- **Breaking (PhysX):**
`isaaclab_physx.sim.DeformableBodyPropertiesCfg`,
`DeformableObjectSpawnerCfg`, `DeformableBodyMaterialCfg`,
`SurfaceDeformableBodyMaterialCfg`, `spawn_deformable_body_material`,
`define/modify_deformable_body_properties` and
`isaaclab_physx.assets.DeformableObjectCfg` are now imported from
`isaaclab.sim` / `isaaclab.assets`. See
`docs/source/migration/migrating_deformables.rst`.
- USD spawners now support assets that embed tetrahedral mesh data, with
automatic surface-mesh extraction.
- Added `pytetwild` dependency for tet-mesh generation.

### Newton manager abstraction (`isaaclab_newton`)
- Added deformable registration hooks to Newton cloning + Fabric sync
fixes for particle meshes and particle-only scenes.

### Experimental Newton deformables (`isaaclab_contrib.deformable`)
- `DeformableObject` (Newton backend), `VBDSolverCfg`, and coupled
solver configs `CoupledMJWarpVBDSolverCfg` /
`CoupledFeatherstoneVBDSolverCfg` providing one- and two-way
rigid–deformable coupling.
- New docs:
`docs/source/features/newton-physics-integration/using-vbd-solver.rst`
(VBD solver tuning + Franka soft-body lift guidance).

### Tasks, demos, tutorials
- Added `Isaac-Lift-Soft-Franka-v0` (manager-based), the documented
rigid–deformable coupling task.
- Updated `scripts/demos/deformables.py`, the
`01_assets/run_deformable_object` tutorial, and `00_sim/spawn_prims` to
use the backend-neutral API with selectable PhysX or Newton backends.
- Added IK + video-record state-machine demo
`scripts/environments/state_machine/lift_franka_soft.py`.

Continues on isaac-sim#5439 adding VBD solver and coupled MJWarp + VBD solver as
newton managers in isaaclab_contrib.

Fixes isaac-sim#5285 

## Type of change

- New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
- Breaking change: Moved deformable schemas, materials, spawners, and
`DeformableObjectCfg` out of `isaaclab_physx` into `isaaclab.sim` /
`isaaclab.assets` so user code imports a single backend-agnostic API.

## Test plan

- [x] `./isaaclab.sh -p -m pytest
source/isaaclab/test/sim/test_deformable_backend_split.py`
- [x] `./isaaclab.sh -p -m pytest
source/isaaclab_physx/test/assets/test_deformable_object.py`
- [x] `./isaaclab.sh -p -m pytest
source/isaaclab_contrib/test/deformable/`
- [x] Run `scripts/demos/deformables.py` against PhysX and Newton
backends
- [x] Run `Isaac-Lift-Soft-Franka-v0` training for sanity-check rollout

## Checklist

- [x] I have read and understood the [contribution
guidelines](https://isaac-sim.github.io/IsaacLab/main/source/refs/contributing.html)
- [x] I have run the [`pre-commit` checks](https://pre-commit.com/) with
`./isaaclab.sh --format`
- [x] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
- [x] My changes generate no new warnings
- [x] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my
feature works
- [x] I have updated the changelog and the corresponding version in the
extension's `config/extension.toml` file
- [x] I have added my name to the `CONTRIBUTORS.md` or my name already
exists there

---------

Signed-off-by: Mike Yan Michelis <46975745+mmichelis@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Kelly Guo <kellyg@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Copilot <copilot@github.com>
Co-authored-by: Donglai <donglaix@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Anka Chen <ankachan92@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Kelly Guo <kellyg@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: ooctipus <zhengyuz@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: mingxueg <mingxueg@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: matthewtrepte <mtrepte@nvidia.com>
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