# cyberbotics/webots

> Open-source robot simulator: an environment to model, program and simulate robots, vehicles and mechanical systems, aimed also at robotics newcomers.

- Magnitude: 1.4 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 4,668 total · +1 star today, ≈ 3 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Hardware, IoT & robotics · Language: C++ · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2018-11-05 · Last push: 2026-09-24
- GitHub: https://github.com/cyberbotics/webots · Homepage: https://cyberbotics.com · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/cyberbotics/webots

## Useful for

- Model a robot and test a control algorithm in simulation before building hardware
- Run a robotics course using Webots tutorials
- Run a ROS-based simulation to debug mobile robot navigation

## Why it’s here

- 1 star so far today, about 3 expected by the end of the day.
- GitHub Trending C++ today: #3, +6 stars.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 2,069
- Issues and pull requests: 6,658
- Watchers: 81
- Average over the last week: 5 per day
- Usual pace: 3 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0
- Latest release: nightly_23_9_2026 (2026-09-23)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-08-27 … 2026-09-25: 2, 2, 2, 2, 4, 4, 3, 3, 2, 0, 4, 1, 0, 1, 10, 6, 3, 1, 5, 6, 1, 2, 4, 2, 3, 4, 3, 8, 11, 1

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending C++ today: #3, +6 stars

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Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-09-25 14:45 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.