Build robotics simulation in minutes, straight from your terminal with just prompts. Everything you need for ROS, Simulator, Plugins, and OS orchestration. Build any robot and world, launch it in simulation, and wire up your control loop - all from a single prompt. Fix issues swiftly with drift as it actively tracks all ROS states, workspace and the simulator.
I'm Swastika, devrel at Drift AI and I'll be honest, I'm the newest person on this team. I joined not too long ago, came from a completely different corner of tech, and knew next to nothing about robotics when I walked in.
That's actually why I wanted to drop a comment here.
Because if someone like me, with zero robotics background, can get Drift running, set up a simulation, and start actually understanding what's happening under the hood, then I genuinely believe any developer can. The whole point of Drift is that you shouldn't need to be a simulation expert to work with one.
That said, getting started with any new tool has its rough edges, especially on day one. So I'm here. If you're trying to install Drift and hitting a wall, if something isn't working on your Mac (Drift runs on Ubuntu but works well on MAC with VMware), if your simulation isn't launching or your ROS environment is being weird; drop a comment below or reach out directly. I'll be watching this thread all day and will personally help you.
Really proud of what this small team has built and excited to see what you all do with it.
Hey, drift is awesome! I'm a mac user, does drift work for me or is this linux only? A lot of great robotics tools end up being ubuntu only and it's always a pain for mac users….
Engineers spend 60% of their time building simulations but -
Simulation environments always get into setup & runtime nightmares.
Robotics engineers feel like software or IT engineers fixing these issues, taking away their focus from the actual robot, the physics, the maths - which is their actual motivation to build in robotics!
Current coding agents don’t have the necessary context, control and understanding of orchestrating - ROS, simulator, OS, plugins together to get simulations running reliably.
Drift fixes this. You describe what you want, it handles the rest - generating/editing robot & world description, publishing ROS nodes, setting up the simulator, generating controller configs, launch files, building the workspace, launching the sim. When something breaks, it inspects running nodes, checks topic connections, traces the command chain, understands from previous success-fail chains and fixes it.
Right now Drift is completely free in public beta. Happy to answer any questions here and would love your feedback.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Swastika, devrel at Drift AI and I'll be honest, I'm the newest person on this team. I joined not too long ago, came from a completely different corner of tech, and knew next to nothing about robotics when I walked in.
That's actually why I wanted to drop a comment here.
Because if someone like me, with zero robotics background, can get Drift running, set up a simulation, and start actually understanding what's happening under the hood, then I genuinely believe any developer can. The whole point of Drift is that you shouldn't need to be a simulation expert to work with one.
That said, getting started with any new tool has its rough edges, especially on day one. So I'm here. If you're trying to install Drift and hitting a wall, if something isn't working on your Mac (Drift runs on Ubuntu but works well on MAC with VMware), if your simulation isn't launching or your ROS environment is being weird; drop a comment below or reach out directly. I'll be watching this thread all day and will personally help you.
Really proud of what this small team has built and excited to see what you all do with it.
Give it a try ❤️🦾