7 Platforms You Can Use To Build & Test Robotics Applications

Recently, researchers of Google Brain and UC Berkeley introduced ROBEL (Robotics Benchmarks for Learning with Low-Cost Robots) to the world. ROBEL is an open-source platform of cost-effective robots and curated benchmarks designed primarily to facilitate research and development on physical hardware in the real world. The robot includes in this platform are low-cost, modular, easy to maintain, and are robust enough to sustain on-hardware reinforcement learning from scratch. According to the researchers, the platform serves as a rapid experimentation platform, supporting a broad range of experimental needs along with the development of important algorithms like reinforcement learning.