AI Habitat, an advanced simulation platform for embodied AI research

To accelerate progress in this space, we’re sharing AI Habitat, a new simulation platform created by Facebook AI that’s designed to train embodied agents (such as virtual robots) in photo-realistic 3D environments. While AI Habitat can run Replica’s state-of-the-art reconstructions right now, the platform also works with existing 3D assets created for embodied research, such as the Gibson and Matterport3D data sets. Though we built AI Habitat to work with existing data sets of 3D environments, the future of this platform — and of embodied AI research more broadly — is in simulated environments that are increasingly indistinguishable from real life.

Source: ai.facebook.com