Webots is an open source and multi-platform desktop application used to simulate robots. It provides a complete development environment to model, program and simulate robots.
It has been designed for a professional use, and it is widely used in industry, education and research. Cyberbotics Ltd. maintains Webots as its main product continuously since 1998.
As a team we were tasked to download webots with our home machines and document our findings.
I tested 3 computer setup scenerios and recorded my experience.
PC running Windows 10
PC running VirtualBox with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Mac High Sierra
After installing webots, I went straight into getting started with webots. The tutorials are straight forward and makes for easy navigation around the program itself. I got as far as the first tutorial (hands-on #3) with creating your first simulation in webots. Unfortunately it would not display what should be a rectangle arena. I was only presented with a white screen on all my monitors with 'not responding' message which did not change with time. What a shame!
Installing Virtual Box was very straight forward in creating a virtual machine. As suggested by webots, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS was the recommended distribution to install to meet the minimum requirements for running the application.
Again I followed the tutorials and same as the pc setup I got as far as the first tutorial (hands-on #3) with creating your first simulation in webots. Unfortunately again it would not display what should be a rectangle arena. I was only presented with a blue screen but I could still navigate around the program but nothing would show if I added extra things to the simulation.
Webots is an open source and multi-platform desktop application used to simulate robots. It provides a complete development environment to model, program and simulate robots.
It has been designed for a professional use, and it is widely used in industry, education and research. Cyberbotics Ltd. maintains Webots as its main product continuously since 1998.
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