


When it comes to environments, simulation offers a much greater variety of challenges than would ever be physically possible. For example, your robotics club might only have a single MINDSTORMS® robot, but the whole team could be working and programming on a digital version of that same competition robot from home.

Perhaps the most obvious benefit is that by using a simulated robot we can write programs to work with the robot, even if it isn’t physically available. There are many benefits of adding simulation capability to the MINDSTORMS® experience, but a few of the more compelling reasons are given below: The simulator allows users to drive their own virtual robot, but without the burden of ever needing space for testing, or running out of physical bricks. Designed for use with the LEGO® MINDSTORMS EV3, the Virtual Robotics Toolkit™ is a physics enabled robotics simulator.
