AI Habitat

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- aid: ai-habitat:ai-habitat
  name: AI Habitat
  tags:
  - Embodied AI
  - Simulation
  - Robotics
  - Python
  - Computer-Vision
  - Reinforcement Learning
  tags_raw:
  - Embodied AI
  - Simulation
  - Robotics
  - Python
  - Computer Vision
  - Reinforcement Learning
  humanURL: https://aihabitat.org/
  properties:
  - url: https://aihabitat.org/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://aihabitat.org/docs/
    type: Documentation
    title: API Documentation
  - url: https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim
    type: GitHubRepository
    title: Habitat-Sim GitHub
  - url: https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-lab
    type: GitHubRepository
    title: Habitat-Lab GitHub
  - url: https://pypi.org/project/habitat-sim/
    type: SDKs
    title: Habitat-Sim Python Package
  - url: https://pypi.org/project/habitat-lab/
    type: SDKs
    title: Habitat-Lab Python Package
  description: AI Habitat simulation framework for embodied AI research, including Habitat-Sim (high-performance 3D simulator)
    and Habitat-Lab (modular training library). Supports navigation, manipulation, and human-robot collaboration tasks across
    photorealistic 3D indoor environments.
name: AI Habitat
tags:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Simulation
- Embodied AI
- Robotics
- Computer-Vision
- Reinforcement Learning
- Machine-Learning
- Open-Source
- Research
tags_raw:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Simulation
- Embodied AI
- Robotics
- Computer Vision
- Reinforcement Learning
- Machine Learning
- Open Source
- Research
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  callable_host: false
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  source:
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  generated: '2026-08-28'
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  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
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access: 3rd-Party
created: '2025-02-17'
modified: '2026-08-30'
position: Consuming
description: AI Habitat is an open-source simulation platform from Meta AI Research for embodied AI research. It provides
  high-performance 3D simulated environments for training and evaluating AI agents on navigation, manipulation, and human-robot
  collaboration tasks. Habitat-Sim delivers 10,000+ FPS simulation and Habitat-Lab provides a modular library for defining
  tasks, training agents, and running benchmarks.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
specificationVersion: '0.23'
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://aihabitat.org/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ai-habitat-domain-security.yml
- name: AI Habitat GitHub Organization
  url: https://github.com/facebookresearch
  type: GitHubOrganization
  description: Meta AI Research GitHub organization hosting Habitat repositories.
- name: Habitat-Sim Repository
  url: https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim
  type: GitHubRepository
  description: High-performance 3D simulator for embodied AI research (C++/Python).
- name: Habitat-Lab Repository
  url: https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-lab
  type: GitHubRepository
  description: Modular library for embodied AI task definition, training, and benchmarking.
- name: Habitat Documentation
  url: https://aihabitat.org/docs/
  type: Documentation
  description: Official documentation for AI Habitat platform.
- name: Habitat Challenge
  url: https://aihabitat.org/challenge/
  type: Portal
  description: Annual Habitat Challenge competition on EvalAI for embodied AI navigation.
- name: Habitat Discussions
  url: https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-lab/discussions
  type: Forums
  description: Community forum for Habitat questions and support.
- name: Habitat HuggingFace
  url: https://huggingface.co/ai-habitat
  type: Portal
  description: AI Habitat datasets and models on HuggingFace.
- name: Habitat-Sim PyPI
  url: https://pypi.org/project/habitat-sim/
  type: SDKs
  title: Python Package (habitat-sim)
  description: Install Habitat-Sim via pip or conda.
- name: Habitat-Lab PyPI
  url: https://pypi.org/project/habitat-lab/
  type: SDKs
  title: Python Package (habitat-lab)
  description: Install Habitat-Lab via pip.
- name: PARTNR Planner
  url: https://github.com/facebookresearch/partnr-planner
  type: Tools
  description: PARTNR benchmark for human-robot collaboration using Large Planning Models with Habitat.
- type: Features
  data:
  - name: High-Performance Simulation
    description: Habitat-Sim achieves 10,000+ FPS on a single GPU and 8,000+ steps/second for robot simulation, enabling fast
      RL training.
  - name: Photorealistic 3D Environments
    description: Supports HM3D, MatterPort3D, Gibson, Replica, and HSSD datasets with high visual fidelity.
  - name: Physics-Enabled Simulation
    description: Bullet physics engine integration for realistic object interactions and manipulation tasks.
  - name: Robot Support via URDF
    description: Configurable robot models including Fetch mobile manipulator, Franka arm, and AlienGo quadruped.
  - name: Configurable Sensors
    description: RGB, depth, semantic, and egomotion sensors for varied agent perception configurations.
  - name: Modular Task Framework
    description: Habitat-Lab provides modular task definition, agent configuration, and benchmarking tools.
  - name: Imitation and Reinforcement Learning
    description: Built-in support for IL and RL training pipelines for embodied AI agents.
  - name: Human-Robot Collaboration
    description: Habitat 3.0 co-habitat supports humans, avatars, and robots sharing simulated environments.
  - name: Parallelizable Across Clusters
    description: Designed for large-scale distributed training across GPU clusters.
  - name: Annual Benchmark Challenge
    description: Habitat Challenge on EvalAI provides standardized evaluation of navigation and manipulation agents.
- type: UseCases
  data:
  - name: Embodied Navigation Research
    description: Train and evaluate AI agents on point-goal, object-goal, and image-goal navigation tasks in 3D environments.
  - name: Robot Manipulation Research
    description: Develop manipulation skills for pick-and-place, rearrangement, and tool use with simulated robot arms.
  - name: Human-Robot Collaboration
    description: Research human-robot teaming for household tasks using the PARTNR benchmark and Habitat 3.0.
  - name: Reinforcement Learning Training
    description: Fast simulation enables RL agents to explore millions of environment steps for policy learning.
  - name: Dataset Creation and Annotation
    description: Generate synthetic data, annotations, and demonstrations for embodied AI training datasets.
- type: Integrations
  data:
  - name: PyTorch
    description: Deep learning framework integration for neural network training and inference.
  - name: HuggingFace
    description: Datasets and models available on HuggingFace Hub at ai-habitat organization.
  - name: EvalAI
    description: Habitat Challenge evaluation hosted on EvalAI platform for standardized benchmarking.
  - name: Conda / conda-forge
    description: Conda package distribution via conda-forge and aihabitat channels.
  - name: Bullet Physics
    description: Bullet physics engine for realistic rigid-body simulation and manipulation.
  - name: ROS
    description: Robot Operating System integration for sim-to-real transfer research.
- name: AI Habitat Packages and SDKs
  url: packages/ai-habitat-packages.yml
  type: Packages
  description: PyPI, conda and source distributions for habitat-sim, habitat-lab and habitat-baselines, with versions and
    publish dates.
- name: AI Habitat SDK Inventory
  url: packages/ai-habitat-packages.yml
  type: SDKs
  description: First-party Python/C++ client distributions. The product is the package; there is no hosted API.
- name: AI Habitat llms.txt
  url: llms/ai-habitat-llms.txt
  type: LLMsTxt
  description: Agent-readable orientation to AI Habitat, generated from this profile and its artifacts.
- name: AI Habitat Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/ai-habitat-lifecycle.yml
  type: Lifecycle
  description: Versioning scheme, release cadence, support channels and end-of-maintenance posture.
- name: AI Habitat End-of-Maintenance Notice
  url: lifecycle/ai-habitat-lifecycle.yml
  type: Deprecation
  description: First-party notice that beyond v0.3.4 the project receives no official active development or maintenance by
    Meta internal teams.
- name: AI Habitat Release History
  url: changelog/ai-habitat-changelog.yml
  type: ChangeLog
  description: Structured release notes for habitat-sim and habitat-lab from v0.3.0 to v0.3.4, read from the GitHub release
    feeds.
- name: AI Habitat Command Line
  url: cli/ai-habitat-cli.yml
  type: CLI
  description: Documented command-line surface — dataset downloader, C++/Python viewers, example and benchmark runners.
- name: AI Habitat Sandbox and Test Fixtures
  url: sandbox/ai-habitat-sandbox.yml
  type: Sandbox
  description: In-browser WebAssembly demo plus the named downloadable test scenes and datasets used as the install smoke
    test.
- name: Habitat Browser Demo
  url: https://aihabitat.org/demo
  type: Playground
  description: WebAssembly build of the simulator that runs in the browser with no install or account.
- name: AI Habitat Conformance
  url: conformance/ai-habitat-conformance.yml
  type: Conformance
  description: Domain-standard conformance — Gym/Gymnasium environment interface, URDF, glTF/GLB, Bullet, Hydra config.
- name: AI Habitat Data Model
  url: data-model/ai-habitat-data-model.yml
  type: DataModel
  description: Entity-relationship graph over the simulator, agent, sensor, observation, episode and task objects.
- name: AI Habitat Vulnerability Disclosure
  url: security/ai-habitat-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
  type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  description: facebookresearch organization security policy routing reports to the Meta Bug Bounty program.
- name: AI Habitat Security Policy
  url: security/ai-habitat-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
  type: Security
  description: How to report a vulnerability in habitat-sim or habitat-lab — never as a public issue or pull request.
- name: AI Habitat Plans and Pricing
  url: plans/ai-habitat-plans-pricing.yml
  type: Plans
  description: Measured zero — MIT-licensed software with no hosted service, no plans and no pricing page.
- name: AI Habitat Rate Limits
  url: rate-limits/ai-habitat-rate-limits.yml
  type: RateLimits
  description: Measured zero — no network API, therefore no published or observable rate limits.
- name: AI Habitat Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/ai-habitat-vocabulary.yaml
  type: Vocabulary
  description: Taxonomy for simulation configuration, agent specifications, task definitions and dataset resources.
- name: AI Habitat JSON Schemas
  url: json-schema/ai-habitat-simulator-config-schema.json
  type: JSONSchema
  description: JSON Schema 2020-12 definitions for the Habitat configuration and observation objects.
- name: AI Habitat Spectral Rules
  url: rules/ai-habitat-jsonschema-spectral-rules.yml
  type: Rules
  description: Spectral ruleset measured from this provider's own JSON Schema conventions.
- name: Habitat-Sim API Reference
  url: https://aihabitat.org/docs/habitat-sim/
  type: APIReference
  description: Generated simulator reference including Python classes and the C++ API.
- name: Habitat-Lab API Reference
  url: https://aihabitat.org/docs/habitat-lab/
  type: APIReference
  description: Generated reference for the task, training and benchmarking library.
- name: Habitat Installation Guide
  url: https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim#installation
  type: GettingStarted
  description: Four documented install paths — conda (recommended), pip from source, Docker, and source build.
- name: Habitat Community Support
  url: https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-lab/discussions
  type: Support
  description: The project's stated support channel; GitHub issues cover defects in each repository.
- name: AI Habitat Cookie Policy
  url: https://aihabitat.org/cookie-policy/
  type: CookiePolicy
  description: The site's only published legal/privacy-family document (last updated June 2021); it defers to Meta's Data
    Policy for data processing.
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