Cyberbotics
Cyberbotics is a Swiss robotics simulation company in Gollion that develops the open-source Webots robot simulator.
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1998Cyberbotics is a Swiss robotics simulation company in Gollion that develops the open-source Webots robot simulator.
Webots is distributed free of charge under a permissive open-source licence, which lowers adoption barriers for universities, research laboratories and industrial teams that need to validate control and AI algorithms without physical hardware. Its bundled model library and cross-platform desktop distribution allow users to begin simulating without assembling a separate toolchain.
Longevity is a practical advantage: the simulator has been maintained continuously since 1998 with documented backward compatibility between major versions and a published API reference. Integration packages connect Webots to the ROS and ROS 2 robotics frameworks, and the webots.cloud platform lets shared simulations and programming competitions run in a web browser.
Source: cyberbotics.com
Demand for robotics simulation follows growth in robotics research, industrial automation and robotics education, where simulation reduces the cost of developing and validating controller software against physical hardware. Open-source simulators compete on physics fidelity, sensor realism and framework integration rather than on licence price.
Cyberbotics addresses that market through a free core simulator combined with paid user-support plans and custom development services. Its position depends on continued integration with mainstream robotics frameworks and on the education segment, where browser-based and installation-free simulation platforms are expanding the available audience.
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Webots is an open-source, multi-platform desktop application used to model, program and simulate robots. It combines a Qt user interface, an ODE-derived physics engine and an OpenGL rendering engine, and runs on Windows, Linux and macOS.
Robots can be programmed in C, C++, Python, Java, MATLAB and ROS, and simulations can be exported as movies, interactive HTML scenes or animations, or streamed to a web browser. Cyberbotics also maintains an asset library of robots, sensors, actuators and environments, and the webots.cloud service for sharing models and running competitions.
Source: cyberbotics.com