A robotics suite is a visual environment for robot control and simulation

Simulation

Simulation is the imitation of some real thing available, state of affairs, or process. The act of simulating something generally entails representing certain key characteristics or behaviours of a selected physical or abstract system....

. They are typically an end-to-end platform for robotics development and include tools for visual programming and creating and debugging robot applications. Developers can often interact with robots through web

Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

-based or visual interfaces.

One objective of a robotics suite is to support a variety of different robot platforms through a common programming interface. The key point about a robotics suite is that the same code will run either with a simulated robot or the corresponding real robot without modification.

See also

• Lego Mindstorms
  Lego Mindstorms
  The LEGO Mindstorm series of kits contain software and hardware to create small, customizable and programmable robots. They include a programmable 'Brick' computer that controls the system, a set of modular sensors and motors, and LEGO parts from the Technics line to create the mechanical...
  
  
• Vex Robotics Design System
• Robot operating system
  Robot operating system
  A robot operating system is an operating system made especially for the functioning of a robot.-Open-source:* ROS * -Proprietary:* Advanced Robotics Control Operating System *...
  
  
• Player Project
  Player Project
  The Player Project is a project to create free software for research into robotics and sensor systems . Its components include the Player network server and Stage and Gazebo robot platform simulators...
  
   (formerly the Player/Stage Project or Player/Stage/Gazebo Project)
• Webots
  Webots
  Webots is a professional robot simulator widely used for educational purposes.The Webots project started in 1996, initially developed by Dr. Olivier Michel at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland....
  
  
• Microsoft Robotics Studio
  Microsoft Robotics Studio
  Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio is a Windows-based environment for robot control and simulation. It is aimed at academic, hobbyist, and commercial developers and handles a wide variety of robot hardware....
  
  
• URBI
  URBI
  Urbi is an open source cross-platform software platform in C++ used to develop applications for robotics and complex systems. Urbi is based on the UObject distributed C++ component architecture. It also includes the urbiscript orchestration language which is a parallel and event-driven script...
  
  
• AnyKode Marilou
  AnyKode Marilou
  anyKode Marilou is a modeling and simulation environment for mobile robots, humanoids, articulated arms and parallels robots operating in real-world conditions that respect the laws of physics...
  
  
• Evolution Robotics
  Evolution robotics
  Evolution Robotics is an American company specializing in robotics technologies from Pasadena, California. The product range covers computer vision, localization and autonomous navigation....
  
  
• Simbad robot simulator
  Simbad robot simulator
  Simbad robot simulator is an open source cross-platform software simulator used to develop robotics and artificial intelligence applications. The Simbad project started in 2005, initially developed by Dr. Louis Hugues and is widely used for educational purposes. Simbad is distributed under the GNU...
  
  
• ROS
  Ros
  -People and groups:* ROS,Video Director / Producer - Matatabi Records Tokyo Japan* Raggruppamento Operativo Speciale, the Anti-organized Crime Branch of the Italian Carabinieri* Reparti i Operacioneve Speciale, a former Albanian special forces unit...