Voyage81 provides a cloud‑hosted, browser‑based platform that runs physics‑accurate robot simulations for navigation, manipulation, and perception tasks across multiple robot models. Users launch pre‑configured challenges via a web UI or REST API, receive real‑time telemetry over WebSocket, and download results in CSV/JSON for analysis, enabling zero‑install benchmarking and CI integration.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Robotics developers and educators often lack a readily accessible, standardized environment for testing and benchmarking autonomous algorithms, forcing them to set up complex local simulations or hardware labs that require significant time and resources.
Solution
Voyage81 delivers a browser‑based Robot Challenge platform that hosts pre‑configured simulation scenarios for a variety of robot platforms. Users launch challenges directly from a web interface, with the system handling physics computation, sensor emulation, and real‑time feedback in the cloud. The platform enforces secure session management—requiring cookies and TLS encryption—to protect intellectual property and ensure reliable connectivity. Results are logged and exported in common data formats for downstream analysis, enabling rapid iteration without local infrastructure. Integration hooks allow teams to connect external codebases via RESTful APIs, facilitating automated testing pipelines and continuous integration workflows.
Target Audience
The primary users are robotics researchers, university labs, and competition organizers who need a cloud‑hosted, zero‑install environment for algorithm testing and performance comparison.
Features
- Web UI that launches physics‑accurate robot simulations on demand, eliminating local setup overhead
- Pre‑built challenge suites covering navigation, manipulation, and perception tasks across multiple robot models (e.g., ROS‑compatible, URDF‑based)
- Real‑time telemetry streaming (pose, sensor data, control commands) with low‑latency WebSocket delivery
- Secure session handling using mandatory cookie authentication and HTTPS/TLS encryption
- Automated result capture in CSV/JSON formats and downloadable logs for offline analysis
- REST API and SDKs (Python, C++) for programmatic submission of control algorithms and batch testing
- Scalable cloud compute backend that allocates GPU/CPU resources per challenge to ensure consistent performance
- Built‑in leaderboard and scoring metrics for competitive benchmarking and community engagement