Robot Software & Simulation
18 open-source and commercial software tools for robotics โ simulation frameworks, AI platforms, motion planning, and middleware.
AI & Machine Learning
BVLC Caffe
Berkeley AI Research (BAIR)
BSD-2-Clause
Nano World Model
Simchowitz Lab (Berkeley)
MIT
NVIDIA Isaac ROS
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Software License
OpenAI Gym / Gymnasium
OpenAI / Farama Foundation
MIT
PyTorch
Meta / Linux Foundation
BSD-3-Clause
Simulation & Physics Engines
CoppeliaSim (V-REP)
Coppelia Robotics
Proprietary (educational license available)
Gazebo
Open Robotics (now Intrinsic)
Apache 2.0
MuJoCo
Google DeepMind
Apache 2.0
Newton
NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, Disney Research
Apache 2.0
NVIDIA Isaac Sim
NVIDIA
Proprietary (free for research & development)
Webots
Cyberbotics
Apache 2.0
Motion Planning & Control
Frameworks & Middleware
Robot Framework
Robot Framework Foundation
Apache 2.0
ROS (Robot Operating System)
Open Robotics (now Intrinsic)
BSD (core libraries)
ROS 2
Open Robotics (now Intrinsic)
Apache 2.0