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Roboschool

OpenAI just open-sourced Roboschool. Here's why roboticists should care.

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Why it matters

OpenAI released Roboschool, an open-source robot simulation environment integrated with OpenAI Gym, enabling researchers to train RL agents on robotic control tasks at scale. This democratizes access to simulation infrastructure for the reinforcement learning community.

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7 to know

  1. Roboschool is open-source

  2. Integrated with OpenAI Gym

  3. Robot simulation software

  4. Enables RL training for robotic control

  5. Published May 15, 2017

  6. Roboschool released as open-source software

  7. Robot simulation platform for reinforcement learning

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Publisher excerpt: We are releasing Roboschool: open-source software for robot simulation, integrated with OpenAI Gym.
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