Habitat
A simulator where robots learn to walk before they exist
Latest: Habitat 3.0 (Oct 2023)
FAIR's photorealistic 3D simulator for training embodied agents at thousands of frames per second. Habitat 1.0 (2019) tackled navigation; Habitat 2.0 (2021) added interactive rearrangement; Habitat 3.0 (2023) added simulated humanoid avatars and human-in-the-loop tools for studying human-robot collaboration in homes, alongside the HSSD and HM3D scene datasets.
Why it matters
Habitat made embodied AI trainable at scale: a photorealistic simulator running thousands of frames per second so agents can accumulate years of navigation experience overnight. Its annual Challenge became the field's proving ground, and Habitat 3.0 added simulated humans — even VR-possessed by real people — to study human-robot collaboration.
Facts
- Simulation speed was the founding obsession — agents can rack up years of navigation experience overnight.
- The annual Habitat Challenge became embodied AI's benchmark proving ground, and Habitat 3.0 lets a real human 'possess' the simulated human via VR to test robots against live people.
Try it yourself
aihabitat.org ↗ pip install habitat-lab ↗ conda install habitat-sim ↗
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Sources
arXiv ↗GitHub · habitat-lab ↗aihabitat.org ↗