Open Source Python Robotics Software

The Open Source Computer Vision Library has >2500 algorithms, extensive documentation and sample code for real-time computer vision. It works on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Android, iOS in your browser through JavaScript. Languages: C++, Python, Julia, Javascript Homepage: https://opencv.org Q&A forum: https://forum.opencv.org/ Documentation: https://docs.opencv.org Source code: https://github.com/opencv Please pay special attention to our tutorials! https://docs.opencv.org/master Books about the OpenCV are described here: https://opencv.org/books.html

DXF2GCODE is a tool for converting 2D (dxf, pdf, ps) drawings to CNC machine compatible GCode. Windows, Linux, and Mac support by using python scripting language.

Dummy-Robot is an open source robotics project by Peng Zhihui that showcases the design and implementation of a compact robotic arm . The repository contains full hardware design files, firmware, control software, and 3D models. It includes components such as a gripper, LED light ring PCB, wireless spatial positioning controller, and a portable case. The project demonstrates advanced engineering with stepper motor drivers, custom controllers, and debugging tools. While the original version is CNC-machined, a simplified 3D-printable "youth edition" is planned to lower costs. This project serves as both an educational resource and a demonstration of innovative DIY robotics.

The Player Project: Player is a networked interface to robots and sensors. Stage and Gazebo are Player-friendly multiple-robot simulators. The software aims for POSIX compliance and runs on most UNIX-like OS's. Some parts also work on Windows.

Isaac Lab is an open-source modular robotics learning framework built atop Isaac Sim. It simplifies research workflows across reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and motion planning by offering robust, GPU-accelerated simulation with realistic sensor and physics fidelity—ideal for sim-to-real robot training. Compatible and optimized for use with Isaac Sim versions (e.g., Sim 5.0 and 4.5). GPU-accelerated, high-fidelity physics and sensor simulation suitable for complex learning tasks. Offers a variety of robotic environment simulations on both Linux and Windows.

NVIDIA Isaac Sim is a high-fidelity robotics simulation platform built on NVIDIA Omniverse to develop, test, and validate AI-driven robots in physically accurate virtual environments. It supports a wide array of robotics formats (URDF, MJCF, CAD), includes GPU-accelerated physics, and features immersive RTX rendering and multisensory simulation. Realistic physics via GPU-accelerated engines and RTX ray tracing. Multi-sensor simulation (RGB-D cameras, Lidar, Radar, IMU, contact sensors). Extensible via platform APIs and can integrate into custom USD-based simulators.

Open X-Embodiment is a large-scale collaborative initiative led by Google DeepMind to unify robotic learning datasets into a consistent and standardized format, simplifying access and usage across the robotics research community. Its primary goal is to make all available open-source robotic data interoperable by representing them using the RLDS (Reinforcement Learning Dataset Structure) episode format. This enables seamless integration for training, evaluation, and model development across diverse robotic tasks and embodiments. The dataset aggregates contributions from multiple open-source robotic projects, all harmonized under a single unified data schema. The repository also provides Colab notebooks for dataset visualization, batching, and model inference, along with pretrained model checkpoints such as RT-1-X, a multitask robotic transformer model trained on this data.

PyRobot is a high-level robotics API that simplifies controlling real and simulated robots through a consistent Python interface. Instead of fighting ROS internals, you call clear methods for things like base navigation, arm manipulation, and camera capture, and PyRobot handles the plumbing. It was built to make research repeatable on accessible platforms—most notably low-cost mobile manipulators—while still scaling to richer hardware. The library exposes canonical abstractions (base, arm, gripper, camera, sensors) with calibration and kinematics helpers so beginners can get meaningful results quickly. It also plugs into simulation backends, letting you prototype perception and control algorithms before deploying on physical robots. By standardizing common operations and providing examples, PyRobot reduces boilerplate and encourages best practices in perception-control loops, data collection, and benchmarking.

2D robotic simulator in Python 2.x, tested in 2.6 and 2.7, under Win7(64) and Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid). Needs the matching version of Pygame installed! (www.pygame.org) Download the .py file and two .bmp files: -->back2_800_600 for background -->any of the robo1.bmp through robo4.bmp for robot image (different colors). The map of the "room" can be changed by modifying the list of obstacles. Read more in ReadMe.txt and in the .py file comments.

This is a sophisticated & integrated simulation and analysis environment for dynamical systems models of physical systems (ODEs, DAEs, maps, and hybrid systems). It supports symbolic math, optimization, continuation, data analysis, biological apps...

Moved to https://github.com/rdiankov/openrave An open-source, cross-platform, plugin-based robot planning environment for autonomous robotics. Includes services like collision detection, physics, (inverse) kinematics, sensors, robot controls, python bindings, and a network scripting environment.

Driver support for 3D Controller Hardware. We hope to support SDL Input, DirectInput, and other major controller API's including game consoles and embedded systems.

PyVision is a object-oriented Computer Vision Toolkit for researchers that contains vision and machine learning algorithms and algorithm analysis and easily interfaces with scipy/numpy, PIL, opencv and other computer and machine learning libraries.

Br-Gogo is a Brazilian open-source version of the Gogo Board project. Developed by CTI, a Brazilian research center. **<div class="sf-root" data-id="250926" data-badge="oss-users-love-us-white" style="width:125px"> <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/br-gogo/" target="_blank">Br-Gogo</a> </div>**

Various projects focusing on, but not limited to, Python, robotics and microcontrollers.

Tinybldlin is a GNU/Linux port written in python for Tiny PIC Bootloader (tinybldWin.exe) for Microchip PIC microcontrollers.

MBDyn_sim_suite is a collection of free pre&post-processing tools and simulation models for the open-source multi-body analysis software MBDyn forming a general purpose simulation environment for structural dynamics with an emphasis on wind turbines.

This is the RoboCup Mixed Reality Project: a standard research and educational platform integrating cutting edge and low cost watch technology into a miniature multi-robot system which mixes reality and simulation.

PROJECT HAS MOVED! ROS is now hosted at https://code.ros.org/gf/project/ros/

pyGerber2Gcode is a Pyhon based simple Gerber to G-code converter.

General purpose agents using reinforcement learning. Combines radial basis functions, temporal difference learning, planning, uncertainty estimations, and curiosity. Intended to be an out-of-the-box solution for roboticists and game developers.

Open, free and extensible plataform for developing robotics projects

Applications contributed for URBI (Universal RealTime Behoavior Interface). URBI is a scripted command language used to control robots (AIBO pioneer..) as well as a robot-independant execution and developpement plateform. www.urbiforge.com www.gostai.com

Package to interface and control an Astromech Droid (Star Wars' R2-D2 and friends) replica using Willow Garage's ROS Robot Operating System. Please visit http://astromech.net for info on Astromech replicas and ros.org for info on the ROS system.

Navlib is a collection of algorithms created to solve the navigation problem for 2D non-holonomic vehicles. It includes code for computational geometry, system identification, path planning, and control. Written in C++ with python extensions.