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Robotics Toolbox for Python

  • Software
  • Robot arms and industry
  • Library

A Python toolbox for robotics research and education, covering manipulator kinematics and dynamics, mobile robot planning and localization, and simulation.

Source on GitHub: github.com/petercorke/robotics-toolbox-python (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit a4b27ad (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 a4b27ad (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.

Commercial use
Yes

What it does

  • Represents serial-link manipulators via Denavit-Hartenberg parameters, URDF import, or over 50 built-in models of well-known robots.
  • Provides fast forward kinematics, manipulator Jacobian and numerical inverse kinematics.
  • Supports mobile robots with motion models, path planning (bug, D*, PRM, RRT), localization (EKF, particle filter) and SLAM.
  • Builds on the Spatial Maths Toolbox for SO(n), SE(n), quaternions, twists and spatial vectors.
  • Offers plotting with matplotlib and a browser-based Swift simulator, with an option to load more models via robot_descriptions.
  • Designed to be readable and suited to teaching, and backward compatible with the Robotics Toolbox for MATLAB.

Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit a4b27ad.

Getting started

Difficulty
Intermediate

Maintenance

Status
Active: a commit in the last 90 days
Newest commit
16 Oct 2026 on main
Latest release
v1.4.4 (20 Sept 2026)

Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.

Links

Robots on Robotheca that use 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.