[Proposal] Google Colab Examples in Docs

[j3soon]

Proposal

Enable users to run Isaac Lab demos directly on Google Colab, without the need for local installation.

Motivation

This could lower the entry barrier for those who are still hesitant to use Isaac Lab or who have not yet set up their own environment. In addition, this would be great for workshops or courses that lack the required hardware for all participants.

For reference, MuJoCo have a collection of IPython notebooks that can be directly executed on Google Colab, which is quite nice for beginners.

Alternatives

Other free services similar to Google Colab

Additional context

I've created a notebook demo for the Cartpole & Ant environment, including training, recording video, and plotting learning curves. The source code can be found here: https://github.com/j3soon/isaac-sim-colab.

However, since this requires several hacks to run smoothly on Colab, we should tag this example as experimental if we decide to include it.

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• [ ] Google Colab Notebooks added to repository & docs.

[RandomOakForest]

Thanks for posting this proposal. The team is constantly working on improving Isaac Lab, and having this type of tutorials is definitely on our radar. The team will review this.

[cornuco-pia]

hi! just wanted to thank you for these google colab examples - i'm glad i don't need to configure all this stuff myself