Open Ant — Robot for RL Research
A robot platform for reinforcement learning research, developed at Openmind Research Institute
The Open Ant is an open-source robot platform designed for reinforcement learning research and it was inspired by the OpenAI Gym.
The platform supports continual learning algorithms and provides a standardized hardware-software interface for robotics RL research.
The ant has also a Twitter account: @escaped_sim_ant.
The code and the hardware are open-source and available on GitHub.
Publication: Lupu, E. S.*, Spieler, P.*, Javed, K., De Asis, K., Martin, J. D., Steenstrup, M., & Modayil, J. (2026). The Open Ant: A robot platform for reinforcement learning research. Reinforcement Learning Conference (RLC).