Scenic
- Software
- Cars
- Tool
Scenic is a probabilistic programming language and compiler for describing the environments of cyber-physical systems, and for generating scenarios from those descriptions.
Made by Scenic Foundation.
Source on GitHub: github.com/Scenic-Foundation/Scenic (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 2630b09 (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- BSD-3-Clause (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (BSD-3-Clause) at commit 2630b09 (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Compiles and generates scenarios from programs written in the Scenic domain-specific probabilistic language.
- Built for modeling the surroundings of cyber-physical systems such as autonomous vehicles and robots.
- Interfaces with various simulators, described in its documentation.
- Includes many example Scenic programs and tests in the repository.
- Describes its language design in published papers covering Scenic 1, 2 and 3.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 2630b09.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- How to start
- The project's website (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Active: a commit in the last 90 days
- Newest commit
- 6 Oct 2026 on main
- Latest release
- Version 3.1.1 (8 May 2026)
Checked on GitHub on 16 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.