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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 |
PAROL6-Desktop-robot-arm
BOM, STL files and instructions for PAROL6 3D printed robot arm |
3.2K | 367 | 08/17/26 | GPL-3.0 |
| 22 |
ViZDoom
Reinforcement Learning environments based on the 1993 game Doom :godmode: |
2.1K | 449 | 08/21/26 | Other |
| 23 |
symforce
Fast symbolic computation, code generation, and nonlinear optimization for robotics |
1.6K | 177 | 08/27/26 | Apache-2.0 |
| 24 |
MASt3R-SLAM
[CVPR 2025] MASt3R-SLAM: Real-Time Dense SLAM with 3D Reconstruction Priors |
3.2K | 375 | 11/09/25 | Other |
| 25 |
dreamzero
Code to pretrain, fine-tune, and evaluate DreamZero and run sim & real-world evals |
2.6K | 229 | 04/19/26 | Apache-2.0 |
| 26 |
alpamayo
NVIDIA Alpamayo 1 Nano is an open 10B reasoning VLA model for autonomous vehicles that pairs driving trajectories with Chain-of-Causation reasoning. |
2.0K | 337 | 08/29/26 | Apache-2.0 |
| 27 |
manif
A small C++11 header-only library for Lie theory. |
1.8K | 274 | 08/05/26 | MIT |
| 28 |
lingbot-va
[RSS 2026] Causal video-action world model for generalist robot control |
1.8K | 164 | 07/09/26 | Apache-2.0 |
| 29 |
ros-mcp-server
Connect AI models like Claude & GPT with robots using MCP and ROS. |
1.4K | 208 | 08/29/26 | Apache-2.0 |
| 30 |
ai2thor
An open-source platform for Visual AI. |
1.8K | 298 | 11/04/25 | Apache-2.0 |
| 31 |
ASAP
[RSS 2025] "ASAP: Aligning Simulation and Real-World Physics for Learning Agile Humanoid Whole-Body Skills" |
2.1K | 196 | 01/06/26 | MIT |
| 32 |
alpasim
AlpaSim is an open-source autonomous vehicle simulation platform designed for development and testing of end-to-end AV policies |
1.2K | 152 | 08/24/26 | Apache-2.0 |
| 33 |
rosa
ROSA 🤖 is an AI Agent designed to interact with ROS1- and ROS2-based robotics systems using natural language queries. ROSA helps robot developers inspect, diagnose, understand, and operate robots. |
1.6K | 178 | 03/17/26 | Apache-2.0 |
| 34 |
PBHC
Official Implementation of "KungfuBot: Physics-Based Humanoid Whole-Body Control for Learning Highly-Dynamic Skills" |
1.1K | 141 | 07/01/26 | Other |
| 35 |
transfuser
[PAMI'23] TransFuser: Imitation with Transformer-Based Sensor Fusion for Autonomous Driving; [CVPR'21] Multi-Modal Fusion Transformer for End-to-End Autonomous Driving |
1.6K | 244 | 10/19/25 | MIT |
| 36 |
SimplerEnv
Evaluating and reproducing real-world robot manipulation policies (e.g., RT-1, RT-1-X, Octo) in simulation under common setups (e.g., Google Robot, WidowX+Bridge) (CoRL 2024) |
1.1K | 198 | 12/20/25 | MIT |
| 37 |
humanoid-gym
Humanoid-Gym: Reinforcement Learning for Humanoid Robot with Zero-Shot Sim2Real Transfer https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05695 |
2.1K | 254 | 01/26/25 | Other |
| 38 |
ASE
Adversarial skill embeddings for training reusable controllers for physically simulated characters. |
1.1K | 152 | 12/07/25 | Other |
| 39 |
DriveLM
[ECCV 2024 Oral] DriveLM: Driving with Graph Visual Question Answering |
1.3K | 88 | 07/02/25 | Apache-2.0 |
| 40 |
simulator
A ROS/ROS2 Multi-robot Simulator for Autonomous Vehicles |
2.5K | 790 | 04/04/23 | Other |