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.

You should no longer need to connect to our license server to use Webots.

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.