Isaac Sim (and Isaac Lab) on Colab

Unofficial instructions for running headless Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab on Google Colab.

This setup is for demo purposes only, using various hacks to run Isaac Sim on Colab. Serious development is not recommended, as Colab is not officially supported.

Demo

Test the demo on Google Colab:

| Isaac Sim Version | Isaac Lab Version | Colab Link | Script | | ----------------- | ----------------- | ----------- | ------ | | 4.5.0 | - | | install-isaac-sim-4.5.sh | | 4.5.0 | 2.1.0 | | install-isaac-lab-2.1.0.sh |

Developer Notes

Run the following to clean up notebooks before committing:

nb-clean clean --preserve-cell-outputs notebooks/isaac-sim-4.5-colab.ipynb
nb-clean clean --preserve-cell-outputs notebooks/isaac-lab-2.1.0-colab.ipynb

Sometimes Isaac Sim installation fails due to pip install issues. In this case, try deleting the runtime and creating a new one.