Robotics & Embodied AI Simulation
Simulation platforms for robotics and embodied AI, providing physics engines, renderers, and Pythonic APIs to build environments, generate synthetic data, and test control and perception policies.
48 projects
See methodology for ranking rules; order uses public GitHub metrics within this scenario.
| Rank | Project | Stars | Forks | Updated | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
genesis-world
Simulation platform for general-purpose robotics & embodied AI learning. |
29.8K | 2.8K | 08/29/26 | Apache-2.0 |
| 2 |
lerobot
🤗 LeRobot: Making AI for Robotics more accessible with end-to-end learning |
27.0K | 5.5K | 08/29/26 | Apache-2.0 |
| 3 |
ml-agents
The Unity Machine Learning Agents Toolkit (ML-Agents) is an open-source project that enables games and simulations to serve as environments for training intelligent agents using deep reinforcement learning and imitation learning. |
19.7K | 4.5K | 08/25/26 | Other |
| 4 |
AirSim
Open source simulator for autonomous vehicles built on Unreal Engine / Unity, from Microsoft AI & Research |
18.4K | 4.9K | 06/30/26 | Other |
| 5 |
carla
Open-source simulator for autonomous driving research. |
14.3K | 4.7K | 08/29/26 | MIT |
| 6 |
rerun
Visualize, query, and stream to train on multimodal robotics data. |
11.4K | 834 | 08/29/26 | Apache-2.0 |
| 7 |
cosmos
NVIDIA Cosmos is an open platform of world models, datasets, and tools that enables developers to build Physical AI for robots, autonomous vehicles, smart infrastructure, and more. |
11.7K | 849 | 08/25/26 | Other |
| 8 |
webots
Webots Robot Simulator |
4.6K | 2.1K | 08/28/26 | Apache-2.0 |
| 9 |
BehaviorTree.CPP
Behavior Trees Library in C++. Batteries included. |
4.2K | 853 | 08/14/26 | MIT |
| 10 |
RLinf
RLinf: Reinforcement Learning Infrastructure for Embodied and Agentic AI |
4.7K | 690 | 08/28/26 | Apache-2.0 |
| 11 |
dm_control
Google DeepMind's software stack for physics-based simulation and Reinforcement Learning environments, using MuJoCo. |
4.7K | 761 | 08/29/26 | Apache-2.0 |
| 12 |
OpenCat-Quadruped-Robot
An open source quadruped robot pet framework for developing Boston Dynamics-style four-legged robots that are perfect for STEM, coding & robotics education, IoT robotics applications, AI-enhanced robotics application services, research, and DIY robotics kit development. |
5.2K | 616 | 08/16/26 | MIT |
| 13 |
dimos
Dimensional is the agentic operating system for physical space. Command humanoids, quadrupeds, drones, and other hardware platforms in natural language and build multi-agent systems that work seamlessly with physical input (cameras, lidar, actuators). |
4.4K | 797 | 08/30/26 | Other |
| 14 |
OM1
Modular AI HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) for Robots |
2.9K | 993 | 08/29/26 | MIT |
| 15 |
habitat-sim
A flexible, high-performance 3D simulator for Embodied AI research. |
3.8K | 548 | 07/21/26 | MIT |
| 16 |
ManiSkill
Manipulation Skill Framework, an open source GPU parallelized robotics simulator and benchmark |
3.3K | 537 | 08/04/26 | Apache-2.0 |
| 17 |
habitat-lab
A modular high-level library to train embodied AI agents across a variety of tasks and environments. |
3.1K | 687 | 05/07/26 | MIT |
| 18 |
mrpt
:zap: The Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit (MRPT) |
2.2K | 660 | 08/29/26 | BSD-3-Clause |
| 19 |
dreamerv3
Mastering Diverse Domains through World Models |
3.7K | 600 | 05/25/26 | MIT |
| 20 |
openarm
A fully open-source humanoid arm for physical AI research and deployment in contact-rich environments. |
2.9K | 322 | 08/20/26 | Apache-2.0 |