Coppelia Robotics

What Coppelia Robotics does

Coppelia Robotics AG is a privately held Swiss software company headquartered in Zurich that develops CoppeliaSim, a robotics simulation framework built on a distributed control architecture in which each object or model can be individually controlled via embedded scripts (Python or Lua), plugins (C/C++), remote API clients, or custom solutions. The platform supports five interchangeable physics engines (MuJoCo, Bullet Physics, ODE, Newton, Vortex Dynamics), forward and inverse kinematics for branched, closed, redundant, and nested mechanisms, volumetric proximity and vision sensors, and motion planning via the OMPL plugin. It exposes seven language APIs (Python, Lua, C/C++, Java, JavaScript, MATLAB, Octave) plus ROS interfaces, ZeroMQ messaging, and WebSockets, running on Windows, macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon), and Ubuntu.

The product is sold in three editions: CoppeliaSim Pro (commercial, quote-based perpetual/term licensing), CoppeliaSim Lite (free download with commercial usage rights), and CoppeliaSim Edu (free for schools and universities, non-commercial). Revenue is generated from Pro license sales, customized solutions and training services, and a regional reseller channel spanning China (keymotek with six mainland offices plus Hong Kong branches), Taiwan (Honghong Technology), Japan (Kyoko Co.), and South Korea (HAE HONG). Named enterprise customers visible on the company's homepage include KUKA, Airbus, Intel, Honda, Kyocera, and ESA, with additional testimonials from Blue Workforce and a former Google engineer. The customer base also includes a large academic and individual user community (5,607 forum members, 28,686 posts as of 2026) seeded by the 2013 IROS paper, which remains the most-cited paper in IROS proceedings for the 2014–2018 window.

Coppelia Robotics has no disclosed funding, no subsidiaries, no parent company, and no public revenue. The firm operates as a closely held Swiss Aktiengesellschaft with a 1–10 person team, suggesting a capital-efficient, product-led growth model that relies on academic mindshare, community engagement, and channel partners rather than venture-backed go-to-market expansion.

Name

Coppelia Robotics

Legal name

Coppelia Robotics AG

Website

https://coppeliarobotics.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Coppelia Robotics AG develops CoppeliaSim, a distributed-control robotics simulator used by industrial manufacturers (KUKA, Airbus, Honda) and academic researchers for algorithm prototyping, kinematic design, factory automation, and digital twin creation, sold via commercial licenses, custom services, and APAC resellers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Robotics Simulation Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro industry

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Robot Software, Autonomy Stacks & Simulation (ROS, digital twins)

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning/Robotics & Autonomous Systems

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Robotics Learning Platforms

Education/Education Technology (EdTech) & Digital Learning/STEM & Coding Learning Platforms (Robotics, Maker, Computer Science)

Keywords

• Robotics simulation software
• Robot simulator
• Digital twin platform
• Factory automation simulation
• Physics engine integration

Headquarters

HQ city

Zürich

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices10 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. CoppeliaSim Pro Commercial License: Commercial perpetual/term license for the Pro edition including full simulation functionality, full editing capabilities, commercial usage rights, and packaging for customer distribution. Pricing is quote-based and obtained via direct contact.
2. Customized Solutions and Training: Paid professional services including custom model creation, specialized plugin development, and personalized training sessions for teams.
3. Reseller Channel Sales: Regional resellers (keymotek in China, Honghong Technology in Taiwan, Kyoko Co. in Japan, HAE HONG in South Korea) sell licenses and provide regional support, generating revenue through local distribution.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Coppelia Robotics develops and sells CoppeliaSim, a distributed-control robotics simulator that lets users create, compose, and simulate any robot. The software supports five pluggable physics engines, seven programming languages/APIs, ROS interfaces, ZeroMQ messaging, and WebSockets, and is used for algorithm development, factory automation simulations, prototyping, robotics education, remote monitoring, safety checking, and digital twin creation. The product is offered in Lite, Pro (commercial), and Edu editions, alongside paid customized solutions and training services.

Product overview

Coppelia Robotics offers CoppeliaSim, a unified robot simulation platform built on a distributed control architecture where each object/model can be individually controlled. The platform is delivered in three editions: CoppeliaSim Pro (commercial), CoppeliaSim Edu (educational, restricted to schools/universities), and CoppeliaSim Lite. CoppeliaSim integrates five physics engines (MuJoCo, Bullet Physics, ODE, Newton, Vortex Dynamics), supports forward/inverse kinematics for any mechanism, realistic sensor simulation, path/motion planning via the OMPL plugin, and a powerful API supporting Python, Lua, C/C++, Java, JavaScript, MATLAB, Octave, and Rust, plus ROS interfaces, ZeroMQ messaging, and WebSockets. The platform is used for fast algorithm development, factory automation simulations, fast prototyping and verification, robotics-related education, remote monitoring, safety double-checking, and as a digital twin.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CoppeliaSim: Flagship product: a versatile and scalable robot simulation framework (formerly V-REP) used for fast algorithm development, factory automation simulations, prototyping, robotics education, remote monitoring, safety double-checking, and as a digital twin. Supports multiple physics engines (MuJoCo, Bullet Physics, ODE, Newton, Vortex Dynamics) and APIs in 7 languages.

Products and services

• CoppeliaSim

Quantifiable outcome

• Most-cited paper in IROS proceedings for the 5-year period 2014-2018 (IROS being the 4th most-impacting robotic event)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

13 partnerships are on record, tiered flagship apac reseller, regional reseller, core engine integration, core library integration, language integration, strategic ecosystem integration and messaging integration.

• keymotek Co., Ltd.flagship apac resellerChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAuthorised CoppeliaSim reseller for China, headquartered at Building T6, PCI Park, No.30 Kaitai Avenue, Huangpu District, Guangzhou, with offices in Suzhou, Chengdu, Shanghai, Xi'an, and Beijing, and branches in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea. Contact: 400 999 3848; keymotek.com.
• Honghong Technology Co., Ltd.regional resellerChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAuthorised CoppeliaSim reseller for Taiwan. Address: 3rd Floor, No. 99, Jingye 1st Road, Zhongshan District, Taipei City (Dawan Technology Center Building). Contact: +886 901353665; hongtronics.com.
• Kyoko Co., Ltd.regional resellerChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAuthorised CoppeliaSim reseller for Japan. Address: 4-chōme-17-13 Minamiaoyama, Minato City, Tokyo 107-0062. kyokotec.com.
• HAE HONG Co., Ltd.regional resellerChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAuthorised CoppeliaSim reseller for South Korea. Address: Room 2225, 2nd floor, 529, Seolleung-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul (Yeoksam-dong, Hamyangjae Building). haehongtec.com.
• MuJoCo (DeepMind)core engine integrationTechnology or IntegrationCoppeliaSim integrates MuJoCo as one of its 5 supported physics engines for fast and customizable dynamics calculations.
• Bullet Physicscore engine integrationTechnology or IntegrationCoppeliaSim integrates Bullet Physics as one of its 5 supported physics engines for fast and customizable dynamics calculations.
• Open Dynamics Engine (ODE)core engine integrationTechnology or IntegrationCoppeliaSim integrates ODE as one of its 5 supported physics engines for fast and customizable dynamics calculations.
• Newton (Newton Dynamics)core engine integrationTechnology or IntegrationCoppeliaSim integrates Newton Dynamics as one of its 5 supported physics engines for fast and customizable dynamics calculations.
• Vortex Dynamics (CM Labs)core engine integrationTechnology or IntegrationCoppeliaSim integrates Vortex Dynamics as one of its 5 supported physics engines for fast and customizable dynamics calculations.
• OMPL (Open Motion Planning Library)core library integrationTechnology or IntegrationCoppeliaSim integrates the OMPL motion planning library via a plugin for flexible path/motion planning support.
• MathWorks (MATLAB)language integrationTechnology or IntegrationCoppeliaSim provides official MATLAB support as one of 7 supported programming languages/APIs (alongside Python, Lua, C/C++, Java, JavaScript, Octave).
• ROS (Robot Operating System / Open Source Robotics Foundation)strategic ecosystem integrationTechnology or IntegrationCoppeliaSim ships native ROS interfaces including publishers, subscribers, and service calls — making it one of the most ROS-friendly robotics simulators available.
• ZeroMQmessaging integrationTechnology or IntegrationCoppeliaSim uses ZeroMQ for messaging and remote API communication alongside WebSockets.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Google DeepMind (MuJoCo): MuJoCo is both an integrated CoppeliaSim physics engine and a standalone competitor; DeepMind open-sourced MuJoCo in 2022, making it a free alternative that competes head-to-head in reinforcement learning and robotics research use cases.
• Cyberbotics (Webots): Cyberbotics' Webots is a directly competing commercial robotics simulator used in academia and industry for robot prototyping, offering comparable functionality to CoppeliaSim including physics simulation and multi-language APIs.
• Open Robotics (Gazebo): Gazebo is the leading open-source robotics simulator and the de-facto standard paired with ROS, directly competing with CoppeliaSim in the same research and prototyping workflow and pressuring paid licensing.
• NVIDIA (Isaac Sim / Omniverse): NVIDIA Isaac Sim is a GPU-accelerated robotics simulator that competes directly with CoppeliaSim for enterprise and embodied-AI workloads, leveraging NVIDIA's hardware ecosystem and significantly greater R&D resources.

Broad incumbents

• MathWorks (Simulink): Simulink is a widely deployed modeling and simulation environment used for robot control design and Model-Based Design, with overlapping robotics customers and supported as a CoppeliaSim API client.
• Epic Games (Unreal Engine): Unreal Engine is used for high-fidelity robotics simulation (e.g., SpaceX drone training, AWS RoboMaker) and competes with CoppeliaSim in photorealistic digital-twin and synthetic-data workloads.
• Siemens (Process Simulate / Tecnomatix): Siemens' Tecnomatix portfolio (Process Simulate, Plant Simulation) is used for virtual commissioning and robotics workcell simulation in manufacturing, overlapping with CoppeliaSim in factory automation and digital-twin use cases.
• Altair Engineering (MotionSolve): Altair's multi-physics simulation suite including MotionSolve for multi-body dynamics competes with CoppeliaSim in industrial robotics and mechanical-system simulation for engineering customers.
• Unity Technologies (Unity Robotics Hub): Unity's robotics packages (URDF Importer, ROS-TCP-Connector) and general-purpose 3D engine are increasingly used as a robotics simulation environment, competing with CoppeliaSim in digital-twin and synthetic-data-generation use cases.
• ANSYS (Twin Builder): ANSYS provides physics-based simulation including Twin Builder for digital twins and Ansys Rigid Body Dynamics, overlapping with CoppeliaSim in industrial robotics and factory automation simulation at the enterprise tier.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/watch?v=jDDaplaOz7Q
• Xx.com/coppeliarobotic
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/v-rep

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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