🛝 MuJoCo Playground

🏆 Winner of the Outstanding Demo Paper Award at RSS 2025

We introduce MuJoCo Playground, a fully open-source framework for robot learning built with MJX, with the express goal of streamlining simulation, training, and sim-to-real transfer onto robots. With a simple installation process (pip install playground), researchers can train policies in minutes on a single GPU. Playground supports diverse robotic platforms, including quadrupeds, humanoids, dexterous hands, and robotic arms, and enables zero-shot sim-to-real transfer from both state and pixel inputs. This is achieved through an integrated stack comprising a physics engine, batch renderer, and training environments. MuJoCo Playground was a community effort involving multiple groups, and we hope it proves valuable to researchers and developers alike.

@misc{zakka2025mujocoplayground, title={MuJoCo Playground}, author={Kevin Zakka and Baruch Tabanpour and Qiayuan Liao and Mustafa Haiderbhai and Samuel Holt and Jing Yuan Luo and Arthur Allshire and Erik Frey and Koushil Sreenath and Lueder A. Kahrs and Carmelo Sferrazza and Yuval Tassa and Pieter Abbeel}, year={2025}, eprint={2502.08844}, archivePrefix={arXiv}, primaryClass={cs.RO}, url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.08844}, }

Disclaimer: All videos on this page except the teaser are shown in real-time (1x speed).

Quadruped Locomotion

Joystick

Handstand

Footstand

Fall recovery

Sim2Sim Transfer

Humanoid Locomotion

Berkeley Humanoid — Sim2Sim Transfer
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Unitree G1 — Indoor Locomotion
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Unitree G1 — Sim2Sim Transfer
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Unitree G1 — Push Recovery
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Booster T1 Locomotion and Fall Recovery

Booster T1 — Locomotion & Fall Recovery
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Manipulation

In-Hand Reorientation

LEAP Hand — In-Hand Cube Reorientation
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Sim2Sim In-Hand Reorientation

LEAP Hand — Sim2Sim In-Hand Reorientation
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In-Hand Z-Axis Rotation

LEAP Hand — In-Hand Z-Axis Rotation
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Vision-based Grasping

Franka — Vision-Based Grasping
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ALOHA Peg Insertion

ALOHA — Peg Insertion
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Non-Prehensile Manipulation

Franka — Non-Prehensile Manipulation 1
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Franka — Non-Prehensile Manipulation 2
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Franka — Non-Prehensile Continuous Trials
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