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CARLA

  • Software
  • Cars
  • Simulator

CARLA is an open-source simulator for autonomous driving research, used to develop, train and validate driving systems with flexible sensor suites and environmental conditions.

  • Closed core

Made by Computer Vision Center, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain (checked on github.com/carla-simulator/carla/blob/ue58-dev/LICENSE (opens in a new tab)).

Source on GitHub: github.com/carla-simulator/carla (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 538eceb (opens in a new tab).

Licenses

Code
MIT (opens in a new tab)

Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (MIT) at commit 538eceb (opens in a new tab), on 30 Oct 2026.

Commercial use
Unknown

It needs closed parts under their own terms: read them before any commercial use.

One part it needs is closed

  • Needs Unreal Engine 5: CARLA runs on Epic Games' Unreal Engine, under Epic's own terms.

Labels

  • Closed coreIt needs closed parts: Unreal Engine 5.

What it does: Robotheca's summary

  • Provides open digital assets such as urban layouts, buildings and vehicles created for driving simulation.
  • Supports flexible specification of sensor suites and environmental conditions.
  • This branch targets the Unreal Engine 5.5 version of CARLA, separate from the UE 4.26 branch.
  • Has a Python API and documentation for building, first steps, asset catalogue and blueprint library.
  • Part of an ecosystem that includes a leaderboard, ScenarioRunner, a ROS bridge and an Autoware bridge.

Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 5fae331.

Getting started

Difficulty
Advanced
Hardware it needs, as the project states it
Recommended: Intel i7/i9 9th-11th gen or AMD Ryzen 7/9, 32 GB RAM or more, NVIDIA RTX 3070/3080/3090, RTX 4090 or RTX 5090 or better, 16 GB or more VRAM, and Ubuntu 22.04 or 24.04, or Windows 11. Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10 or lower are not supported.

Maintenance

Status
Active: a commit in the last 90 days
Newest commit
30 Oct 2026 on ue58-dev
Latest release
0.9.16 (16 Sept 2025)

Checked on GitHub on 30 Oct 2026.

Links

Robots that can run it

No robot on Robotheca is linked to it yet. Links come from a robot's robot.yaml, from its dependency files read as text, or from Robotheca's editors.

Robotheca lists software as a reference: nothing is hosted or run here, and every fact links to where it was read.