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Open software that robots run on, with the license read from each project's license file, whether it is still maintained, and the robots on Robotheca that use it. A reference, not a download site: every entry links to its source.

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    • Software
    • Simulators

    Drake is a model-based design and verification toolbox for robotics, documented on its own website.

    Code license
    BSD-3-Clause
    Commercial use
    Yes
    Difficulty
    Advanced
    Status
    Active
    • Software
    • Simulators

    Genesis World is a simulation platform for physical AI, combining a multi-physics engine, a renderer and a cross-platform compiler behind a Python interface.

    Code license
    Apache-2.0
    Commercial use
    Yes
    Difficulty
    Intermediate
    Status
    Active
    • Software
    • Simulators

    Newton is a GPU-accelerated physics simulation engine built on NVIDIA Warp, aimed at roboticists and simulation researchers, with MuJoCo Warp as its primary backend.

    Code license
    Apache-2.0
    Commercial use
    Yes
    Difficulty
    Intermediate
    Status
    Active
    • Software
    • Simulators

    Chrono is an open-source multi-physics package for modeling and simulating rigid and flexible multibody systems, granular dynamics, fluid-solid interaction, and robotics.

    Code license
    BSD-3-Clause
    Commercial use
    Yes
    Difficulty
    Advanced
    Status
    Active
    • Software
    • Simulators

    Gazebo Sim is an open source robotics simulator offering physics, rendering, and sensor models, with a graphical interface, plugins, and message passing for interaction.

    Code license
    Apache-2.0
    Commercial use
    Yes
    Difficulty
    Intermediate
    Status
    Active
    • Software
    • Simulators

    A Python framework that JIT-compiles ordinary Python functions into kernels running on CPU or GPU, aimed at simulation, robotics and machine learning.

    Code license
    Apache-2.0
    Commercial use
    Yes
    Difficulty
    Advanced
    Status
    Active
    • Software
    • Simulators

    A lightweight 2.5D dynamics simulator for wheeled mobile robots and vehicles, aimed at multi-agent and sensor research. Worlds are configured through XML files.

    Code license
    BSD-3-Clause
    Commercial use
    Yes
    Difficulty
    Intermediate
    Status
    Active
    • Software
    • Simulators

    A GPU-accelerated version of the MuJoCo physics simulator, built on Warp and designed mainly for NVIDIA hardware, for high-throughput robotics simulation.

    Code license
    Apache-2.0
    Commercial use
    Yes
    Difficulty
    Advanced
    Status
    Active
    • Software
    • Simulators

    A ROS 2 package that connects the ros2_control controller architecture to the Gazebo simulator through a Gazebo-Sim system plugin.

    Code license
    Apache-2.0
    Commercial use
    Yes
    Difficulty
    Intermediate
    Status
    Active
    • Software
    • Simulators

    Webots is an open-source robot simulator providing a complete environment to model, program and simulate robots, vehicles and mechanical systems, aimed at beginners in robotics.

    Code license
    Apache-2.0
    Commercial use
    Yes
    Difficulty
    Beginner
    Status
    Active
    • Software
    • Simulators

    BEHAVIOR-1K is a simulation benchmark for testing embodied AI agents on 1,000 everyday household activities such as cleaning, cooking, and organizing.

    • Closed core
    Code license
    MIT
    Commercial use
    Unknown
    Difficulty
    Advanced
    Status
    Active
    • Software
    • Simulators

    NVIDIA's GPU-accelerated robotics simulator built on Omniverse, for developing, testing, training and deploying AI-powered robots in virtual environments.

    • Closed core
    Code license
    Apache-2.0
    Commercial use
    Unknown
    Difficulty
    Advanced
    Status
    Active
    • Software
    • Simulators

    A ros2_control system interface that runs ROS 2 controllers against the MuJoCo physics simulator, using MJCF or URDF-generated robot models.

    Code license
    Apache-2.0
    Commercial use
    Yes
    Difficulty
    Intermediate
    Status
    Active
    • Software
    • Simulators

    A set of Python libraries from Google DeepMind for physics-based simulation and reinforcement learning environments, built on the MuJoCo physics engine.

    Code license
    Apache-2.0
    Commercial use
    Yes
    Difficulty
    Intermediate
    Status
    Active
    • Software
    • Simulators

    A set of ROS 2 packages that connect ROS with the Gazebo simulator, covering message bridging, simulation launch, images and point clouds.

    Code license
    Apache-2.0
    Commercial use
    Yes
    Difficulty
    Intermediate
    Status
    Active
    • Software
    • Simulators

    Brax is a fast, differentiable physics engine written in JAX, used for robotics, reinforcement learning and other simulation-heavy research. It includes built-in training algorithms.

    Code license
    Apache-2.0
    Commercial use
    Yes
    Difficulty
    Advanced
    Status
    Active
    • Software
    • Simulators

    A ROS 2 simulation stack for the iRobot Create 3 robot, running in Gazebo Harmonic. It lets you spawn one or more simulated robots and monitor them in RViz.

    Code license
    BSD-3-Clause
    Commercial use
    Yes
    Difficulty
    Beginner
    Status
    Active
    • Software
    • Simulators

    RoboVerse is a unified platform for robot learning, combining the MetaSim simulation core with content, learning code and tutorial examples. It targets scalable and generalizable robot learning.

    Code license
    Apache-2.0
    Commercial use
    Yes
    Difficulty
    Advanced
    Status
    Active
    • Software
    • Simulators

    A tool that pulls an Onshape assembly through the Onshape API and builds a robot description in URDF, SDF or MuJoCo format for physics simulation.

    • Closed core
    Code license
    MIT
    Commercial use
    Unknown
    Difficulty
    Intermediate
    Status
    Active
    • Software
    • Simulators

    Phobos is a Blender add-on and Python CLI tool for building, editing, and exporting robot models in formats such as URDF, SDF, and SMURF for ROS, ROCK, MARS, and Gazebo.

    Code license
    BSD-3-Clause
    Commercial use
    Yes
    Difficulty
    Intermediate
    Status
    Maintained
    • Software
    • Simulators

    robosuite is a modular simulation framework built on the MuJoCo physics engine for robot learning, with a suite of benchmark manipulation environments for reproducible research.

    Code license
    MIT
    Commercial use
    Yes
    Difficulty
    Intermediate
    Status
    Maintained
    • Software
    • Simulators

    Standard ROS 2 interface definitions (messages, services, and actions) for interacting with robotics simulators in a uniform way.

    Code license
    Apache-2.0
    Commercial use
    Yes
    Difficulty
    Advanced
    Status
    Maintained

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  • Maintenance comes from the newest commit: active within 90 days, maintained within 12 months, stale after that.
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