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.

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.

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.

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 .

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.

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...

LinuxCNC controls CNC machines. It can drive milling machines, lathes, 3d printers, laser cutters, plasma cutters, robot arms, hexapods, and more.

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

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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.

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.

Open, free and extensible plataform for developing robotics projects

Written in C++, IFI-picloader is a US First Competition Linux port for Innovation First Inc. Robot Controller programmer using a pic 18F8520. It writes MCC18 compiled hex files to PIC and allows users to program under *nix based operating systems.

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.

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 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

This project is a part of a mini project required by the Mechatronics-2 course for the 4th year Mechatronics class in faculty of engineering Ainshams university. The mini project involves the control of an articulated robotic arm which resembles a human arm. The control is done via tele-manipulation which is done by the tracking of 4 IR LEDs fixed at the joints of the controller arm. This code is the part of the project responsible for the interfacing with the wiimote, stereo-triangulation of the wiimote data and determining the 3D coordinates of the IR LEDs.

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

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.

Bender is a project intented to cover a complete UAVs system. The projects consists in three parts: the UAV Embedded software (Bender), the Control station software (Fry) and the communication protocol between UAVs and Control Station

An Open Source IEC 61131-3 Integrated Development Environment, providing PLCOpen SoftPLC programming, CanOpen IO's, and SVG based HMI.

The CMU personal robotics package offers many robotics algorithms/controllers/drivers that enable robots to perform basic tasks like manipulation and vision. The main infrastructure used is OpenRAVE and Robot Operating System (ROS).