Announcing SimReady Central: An Open Library of Simulation-Ready 3D Assets for Robotics and AI Factories

SimReady Central is an open library of simulation-ready 3D assets for robotics and AI factories. These assets are 3D models that come pre-equipped with the properties necessary for simulation workflows, such as collision geometry, mass, and friction. SimReady Central Library currently hosts over 2,000 OpenUSD assets, providing developers with a convenient, free starting point for creating physical AI training environments and AI factory digital twins.

Developers can easily identify which capabilities each asset supports and combine assets from various providers to create a single scene. Equipment manufacturers can prepare and validate their assets against SimReady requirements before contributing them to SimReady Central Library, which in turn allows end customers to test and simulate scenarios more quickly and make better-informed decisions. This enables industries to build simulations around their products while managing their own Hugging Face datasets.

Various industries are contributing to SimReady Central Library, including robotics OEMs like Comau, FANUC, Franka Robotics, Robotiq, Standard Bots, and Universal Robots. These OEMs provide robot arms and grippers that developers can combine with industrial equipment to build warehouse and factory scenarios. Simulation asset providers like Palatial offer the NVIDIA Robotics 1K Dataset and complex articulated assets generated from various sources, allowing developers to build environments for robot training and evaluation.

Developers can use SimReady Central to find assets that meet the requirements of their workflows and compose them into OpenUSD environments. This makes SimReady Central a valuable resource for robotics and industrial developers looking to build reusable starting points for robot workcells, industrial environments, and AI factory digital twins.