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Swift (browser robot simulator)

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A light-weight browser-based visualizer for animating robot and object scenes, built with Python and JavaScript, mainly used alongside the Robotics Toolbox for Python.

Source on GitHub: github.com/jhavl/swift (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 352bfd3 (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 352bfd3 (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.

Commercial use
Yes

What it does

  • Visualises mesh files such as Collada, STL, OBJ, glTF and PLY, plus primitive shapes like cuboids, spheres and polylines.
  • Displays multi-link robots from the Robotics Toolbox for Python, with over 150 supplied robot models.
  • Provides interactive browser UI controls such as sliders and buttons for driving a scene.
  • Can record and save a video of a simulation.
  • Supports per-step callbacks that update shape poses or robot joint values during a run.
  • Runs on Linux, MacOS and Windows and can be embedded in a Jupyter Notebook.

Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 352bfd3.

Getting started

Difficulty
Beginner

Maintenance

Status
Active: a commit in the last 90 days
Newest commit
29 Sept 2026 on main
Latest release
v2.0.1 (21 Sept 2026)

Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.

Links

Robots that can run it

  • Robot arm

    U-Arm

    A low-cost, universal leader-follower teleoperation system for commercial robot arms with plug-and-play hardware configurations.

    • Works with AI
    Level
    Intermediate
    Buildability
    75/100
    Buildable with some effort
    Cost
    $60≈ €53 (ECB rate, 16 Oct 2026)

    Found by Robotheca in requirements.txt (opens in a new tab)

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