Webots is a free and open source 3D Robot Simulator for Linux, MacOS and Windows. Using this you can model, program and simulate industrial arms, bipeds, , aerospace vehicle, multi-legs robots, modular robots, automobiles, flying drones and autonomous underwater vehicles and all type of robots in your system. It comes with robots, sensors, actuators, objects and materials asset library for easy design. You can import your CAD models from Blender and URDF. It is based on Open Dynamics Engine physics engine and OpenGL rendering engine. It is released under Apache 2.0 license.
Download Webots [Linux, Windows, MacOS]
Install Webots 3D Robot Simulator on Ubuntu
Webots System Requirements:
2 GHz dual core CPU clock speed
2 GB of RAM
NVIDIA or AMD OpenGL (minimum version 3.3) capable graphics adapter with at least 512 MB of RAM
Webots 3D Robot Simulator available as snap and deb file packages for Ubuntu.
Install Webots via Snap:
Open your terminal app (ctrl+alt+t) type this Webots snap installation command and press the enter key.
sudo snap install webots
Then enter your ubuntu user pasword to confirm the installation. You can start it by running this command in terminal.
webots
Install Webots via deb:
Download Webots in deb file format from above download link from the top of the article. Here the downloaded file name is “webots_2023b_amd64.deb
” and path is “Downloads” folder. According to your name and path you can change below commands.Then run below command to install it.
sudo apt install ./Downloads/webots_2023b_amd64.deb
[OR]
sudo apt install ./Downloads/webots*deb
