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.

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.

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.

Roboschool is a set of open source robot simulation environments for reinforcement learning, created as an alternative to the Mujoco physics engine. It integrates with OpenAI Gym and provides a variety of continuous control tasks, including humanoid locomotion, quadrupeds, and robotic arms. The library is built on the Bullet Physics engine, making it accessible without the licensing requirements of Mujoco. Roboschool includes training scripts and examples for applying reinforcement learning algorithms to its environments. While the project has since been deprecated in favor of more modern frameworks, it remains historically significant as a bridge between early reinforcement learning research and scalable, open-access environments. Its goal was to make reproducible robot learning experiments available to a wider audience without restrictive dependencies .

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.

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.

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...

ARS is a physically-accurate robotics simulator written in Python. It's main purpose is to help researchers with to develop mobile manipulators and, in general, any multi-body system. It is open-source, modular, easy to learn and use, and can be a valuable tool in the process of robot design, in the development of control and reasoning algorithms, as well as in teaching and educational activities.

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.

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>**

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

Open source, cross platform drivers and function library for the NovInt Falcon Haptic Controller. These drivers are not produced by Novint Technologies, Inc. and do not come with any warranty as to their correctness or usage.

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

Open, free and extensible plataform for developing robotics projects

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.

A python-tkinter kit to experiment with the generation and solving of mazes.

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

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.

A project to host code developed for the Microtransat challenge, a race between autonomous sailing robots. This project is intended for both supporting code such as tracking systems and robot control systems or parts of robot control systems.

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.

A virtual scanner that converts 3D models (in Wavefront .obj format) into pointcloud files (in PCL .pcd format). Useful for simulating robotic input. NOTE: This project has been merged into the project at https://github.com/canderegg/cfg_obj

A simple GUI frontend for the Microchip pk2cmd program written in python. At the minute it only supports writing. I plan to add reading and maintainance (renaming pickit2 devices, updating firmware) features soon.