Robotics· 2012
MuJoCo: A physics engine for model-based control
On the reading lists
- #394 in the Top 500 (2026 edition)
- #24 in Robotics (2026 edition)
Why it matters
Introduced an influential physics engine underpinning robotic control, simulation, and reinforcement learning.
Condensed from the expert lists' notes.
The record
- First released
- 2012 (from OpenAlex)
- Citations
- 4,630 citations, as counted by OpenAlex (CC0)
- Named by
- both expert lists
- Also relevant to
- Reinforcement learning
- Score
- 0.384 · computed rank 394 · consensus 0.435, must-read 0, citations percentile 0.725 (2010s · robotics), awards 0, existing lists 0. Method
Data sources
Catalogue data from OpenAlex (CC0), Crossref (CC0 metadata; no abstracts are shown), arXiv, and Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0). Each count names its source. See the method.