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Habitat

A modular high-level library to train embodied AI agents across a variety of tasks and environments. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-lab · homepage · Python · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

74/100

  • Activity 81
  • Release rhythm 51
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 276.5
  • age_days: 2767
  • days_rel: 118
  • days_push: 118
  • n_releases_24m: 3

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

3108 stars · 687 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

AI Habitat is a high-performance, physics-enabled 3D simulation platform for Embodied AI research, consisting of Habitat-Sim (a fast 3D simulator with sensors, robots, and rigid-body dynamics) and Habitat-Lab (a modular library for training agents on embodied tasks). It renders photorealistic indoor/outdoor scenes at thousands of FPS and supports datasets like HM3D, MatterPort3D, Gibson, and Replica.

Use cases

  • train embodied AI agents for navigation in photorealistic 3D indoor scenes
  • simulate a Fetch robot rearranging objects with rigid-body physics
  • benchmark reinforcement learning agents on embodied navigation and instruction-following tasks
  • render RGB-D observations from 3D scans like MatterPort3D or HM3D at high frame rates
  • test sim-to-real transfer of robot policies before deploying to hardware
  • simulate mobile manipulators and quadrupeds described via URDF

When to choose

  • you need extremely fast rendering and physics stepping for large-scale RL training of embodied agents
  • you want built-in support for standard embodied AI datasets (HM3D, MatterPort3D, Gibson, Replica, ReplicaCAD)
  • you are doing Embodied AI research such as navigation, rearrangement, or human-robot interaction
  • you need configurable sensors and URDF-described robots in a Python-friendly simulator

When to avoid

  • you need a simulator under active official development and support - Meta has stopped maintaining it beyond v0.3.4
  • you need broad general-purpose simulation features over raw speed (the design prioritizes FPS over capability breadth)
  • you need outdoor vehicle dynamics or soft-body physics simulation
  • you want a game-engine-quality rendering pipeline with modern PBR features

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

simulation machine-learning computer-vision robotics graphics artificial-intelligence robotics computer-vision simulation machine-learning python cpp embodied-ai 3d-simulator sim2real reinforcement-learning-environments physics-simulation meta-research linux macos gpu

8 sources

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
facebookresearch/habitat-labmain74
facebookresearch/habitat-simbackend75

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="facebookresearch/habitat-lab")

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