Webots on self-managed machines

Webots is a Robotics simulator used for teaching and research in the School.

The software is freely downloadable from the Cyberbotics website and has been released as open-source software. For the purposes of teaching make sure you download a version appropriate to your platform from the archive matching the version currently installed on DICE (you can check this by typing

webots --version

at any DICE terminal). Further installation instructions can be found on the Cyberbotics website.

Webots has difficulties running remotely due to its graphically-intensive nature. We'd suggest running it locally on a desktop or in a lab where possible. Note that we are unlikely to be able to help if Webots doesn't work as you'd expect on your self-managed machine.