In a recent blog post, Facebook has announced they have open-sourced AI Habitat, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) simulation platform that is designed to train embodied agents, such as virtual robots. Using this technology, robots can learn how to grab an object from an adjacent room or assist a visually-impaired person in navigating an unfamiliar transit system. The technology leverages embodied AI which focuses on interactive environments to train real-world systems. This is a different approach than relying upon static data sets which other researchers have traditionally used. A team of Facebook researchers, including Manos Savva, Abhishek Kadian, Oleksandr Maksymets and Dhruv Batra, have released a research paper that demonstrates the capabilities of Al Habitat.