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Drift ships with a curated library of 100+ robots — humanoids, manipulators, quadrupeds, mobile bases, grippers, and more. The /robots slash command opens a full-screen picker where you can browse the library, preview any robot instantly, or stage it into your workspace so Drift can build around it.
/robots is the fastest way to bring a well-known robot into a Drift session. If you want to author a scene from scratch instead, see Building a MuJoCo Scene.

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Opening the library

From any Drift prompt, type:
Drift opens a full-screen picker organized as category → maker → model. Use ↑↓ to navigate, Enter to select, ← to go back, and q to quit.
Drift Robot Library main menu — categorized list of robots with categories, makers, and models

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Picking a robot: format → action

After selecting a model, Drift asks two more questions:
  1. Format — MJCF (opens in MuJoCo) or URDF (opens in RViz). Only formats the robot actually ships are offered.
  2. Action — Preview in the appropriate viewer, Add to workspace, or Go back.

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Preview

Opens the robot in the viewer without touching your workspace. Physics is paused so the model stays in its home pose regardless of whether its actuators can hold it under gravity — this is a preview, not a stability test.

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Add to workspace

Stages the bundle at ./robots/<robot-id>/ in your current working directory. No launch. From there, Drift treats it as the “active robot” for the session — subsequent prompts like launch it in mujoco or add a lidar to the head link resolve against that robot. Two robots ship with pre-composed demo scenes ready to inspect. Pick either from the library, choose MJCF → Preview in MuJoCo:

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Asimov v1 (Menlo)

Full humanoid with legs and arms. Preview holds the standing home pose so you can rotate the camera around it and inspect the model.
Menlo Asimov v1 humanoid in the MuJoCo viewer, standing at its home pose on the ground plane

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Metal Arm by MakerMods

6-DOF fixed-base manipulator arm on a bench mount. Preview holds a folded rest pose. Metal Arm also composes with Drift’s demo world scenes for pick-and-place demonstrations.
MakerMods Metal Arm 6-DOF manipulator in the MuJoCo viewer, folded at rest on its bench mount

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Preview vs. real launch — what physics runs

Preview is intentionally frozen so a robot with underspecified actuators or borderline balance doesn’t topple over during inspection. When you want to test physics, ask Drift to launch it via chat.

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Where the files land

  • Preview caches the bundle to ~/.drift/robots-cache/ for reuse across sessions. No workspace changes.
  • Add to workspace copies the bundle to ./robots/<robot-id>/ under your current working directory. The bundle contains the model file (robot.xml or robot.urdf), meshes, and any bundled scene wrappers.
Once staged, keep talking to Drift as you would with any authored scene: