webots VS virtual_robot

Open Robotics Resources - Provides guides and documentation for robotics simulation.

Deepbots is an open-source framework facilitating reinforcement learning in Webots. Webots provides easy-to-use tools to create your own worlds/robots, and deepbots interfaces Webots with any gym-compatible RL agent. It does this by guiding even the most novice users to create gym-style environments that are compatible with Webots (we have recreated the classic control problem CartPole successfully in Webots, among others). Deepbots handles all low-level details to interface the environment with the simulator.

FreeCAD has a robotics workbench, and it is free software. There's also the Webots Open Source Robot Simulator which comes with lots of robots out of the box and is also free software, meaning you can not only download and use it free of charge, you can also influence development by fixing bugs yourself or filing issue reports.

have you tried webots? https://cyberbotics.com/

The complete change log is available here: https://www.cyberbotics.com/doc/reference/changelog-r2023

Get it now from https://cyberbotics.com or https://github.com/cyberbotics/webots/releases/tag/R2023a

Cyberbotics remains committed to provide high quality, free and open source software to the robotics community on the long run.

Seriously, everyone thinking of robotics should know about this concept. Save yourself hundreds of thousands of dollars and try out the operating environment, your robot design, your sensors, your code, your trouble shooting skills and the newest hardware on a free piece of software. https://cyberbotics.com/

Webots https://cyberbotics.com/, is a good resource for coding robots using Python.

See the official announcement and change log. Get it now from GitHub or https://cyberbotics.com

a free robot simulator i happen to be aware of, you may find it useful but I never actually used it: https://cyberbotics.com/

We use Beta 8397's incredible https://github.com/Beta8397/virtual_robot as well. We actually program our robot into it so we can use our code as is. That is not exactly for the faint of heart, but it is an option. I suggest using one of the built-in robot configurations and modifying it to learn how.

Agree. We have used virtual robot for programming practice and training new programmers.

Agree with this. Also, you might want to check out virtual robot, which has built-in support for the "Learn Java for FTC" book and will allow you and your team to start programming without needing access to an actual robot. We have used both of these with some success.

I maintain this JavaFX project. It runs fine using Amazon Corretto 8 JDK on every Windows system I've tried it on. A user with a MacBook recently posted an issue (package javafx.application does not exist), which he or she fixed by switching to the Bell Liberica 1.8 dev kit.

Another +1 for Beta's excellent simulator at: https://github.com/Beta8397/virtual_robot

We have used Learn Java for FTC with some success. In conjunction with this, we also use a virtual robot simulator which has support for the "programming board" hardware construct in the book. The simulator allows you to learn programming without having to buy an actual robot. Both of these are free.

I am using the virtual robot simulator(https://github.com/Beta8397/virtual_robot) and can't get it to run my op modes. When I click init it does nothing. The demo scripts work but mine doesn't and I'm not sure why. Can someone please explain why this might be happening?

Virtual Robot Simulator