Webots bot stimulation software#

Webots allows you to perform 4 basic stages in the development of a robotic project as depicted on the figure. Hence both the development time and the quality of the results are improved by using a rapid prototyping and simulation software.

Webots bot stimulation software#

Using such software tools saves a lot of time while developing new robotics projects and allows the designers to explore more possibilities than they would if they were limited to using only hardware. It actually allows the designers to visualize rapidly their ideas, to check whether they meet the requirements of the application, to develop the intelligent control of the robots, and eventually, to transfer the simulation results into a real robot. The use of a fast prototyping and simulation software is really useful for the development of most advanced robotics project. Besides universities, Webots is also used by research organizations and corporate research centers, including Toyota, Honda, Sony, Panasonic, Pioneer, NTT, Samsung, NASA, Stanford Research Institute, Tanner research, BAE systems, Vorverk, etc. It is mostly used for research and education in robotics. User licenses of this software have been sold to over 400 universities and research centers world wide. Since 1998, Webots is a commercial product and is developed by Cyberbotics Ltd. Olivier Michel at EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland, in the lab of Prof. It has been developed since 1996 and was originally designed by Dr. Webots is a software for fast prototyping and simulation of mobile robots.