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Cyberbotics' Webots is an open source, multi-platform desktop application designed for modeling, programming, and simulating robots. It offers a comprehensive development environment that includes a vast asset library with robots, sensors, actuators, objects, and materials, facilitating rapid prototyping and efficient robotics project development. Users can import existing CAD models from tools like Blender or URDF and integrate OpenStreetMap data to create detailed simulations. Webots supports programming in multiple languages, including C, C++, Python, Java, MATLAB, and ROS, providing flexibility for diverse development needs. Its modern GUI, combined with a physics engine and OpenGL rendering, enables realistic simulation of various robotic systems, such as wheeled robots, industrial arms, legged robots, drones, and autonomous vehicles. The platform is widely utilized in industry, education, and research for tasks like robot prototyping, and AI algorithm development.

Wayve is an autonomous driving technology platform that develops AI foundation models to power next-generation self-driving vehicles through its Embodied AI approach. Wayve’s core innovation is a self-learning “AI driver” that enables vehicles to perceive, predict, and navigate complex real-world environments by learning from experience rather than relying on hand-coded rules or high-definition maps. Using primarily camera data and deep learning, the system builds a general-purpose driving intelligence that can adapt to new roads, cities, and vehicles with minimal retraining. Wayve’s mapless, hardware-agnostic architecture allows automakers to deploy advanced driver assistance and autonomous capabilities through software upgrades, supporting automation levels from L2+ to L4. It is designed to learn continuously from real-world and simulated data, enabling safe, natural driving behavior and improved handling of unexpected situations.