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Running Ignition Gazebo Ionic on Google Colab

Last week, I saw this post on LinkedIn where Carlos Argueta was showing some interesting robotics perception experiments that were running on Google Colab.

I mentioned in the comments that I had, in the past, managed to run Gazebo on Google Colab. So, I decided to find that old notebook and here it’s:

https://colab.research.google.com/gist/ricardodeazambuja/fae4db3dcee352fee3f95966ca4f3ec6/example-virtual-screen-opengl-gazebo-ignition.ipynb

The magic is only possible thanks to open source software like X virtual framebuffer, VirtualGL, PyVirtualDisplay, among others!

Ignition Gazebo Ionic Running on Google Colab
Ignition Gazebo Ionic Running on Google Colab