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Gymnasium-Robotics

Farama robot RL environments compatible with the Gymnasium API.

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Overview

Gymnasium-Robotics extends Farama Gymnasium with robot-oriented environments (Fetch, Shadow Hand, Maze, Adroit, …). It is the maintained successor path for many “Gym robotics” tutorials.

Great for algorithm homework and baseline RL before full ManiSkill/Isaac stacks. APIs follow Gymnasium conventions, so SB3 and similar libraries plug in cleanly.

Learning Path: bridge between toy Gym tasks and serious manipulation sims.

Who it is for

Students and RL engineers needing standard robot envs.

Key highlights

  • Gymnasium-compatible APIs
  • Maintained classic robot RL tasks
  • Low barrier for coursework

When to use

  • Coursework, algorithm smoke tests, baseline RL comparisons

When not to use

  • Large-scale photoreal or industrial digital twins

Getting started

  1. 1pip install and make a Fetch or Maze env
  2. 2Train a simple SAC/PPO baseline
  3. 3Log success metrics

Install / setup

pip

pip install gymnasium-robotics

How it compares

Caveats & pitfalls

  • Not a full research sim suite for modern VLA.

Content reviewed 2026-07-28