V-REP Pro (short for Virtual Robot Experimentation Platform) is a full-featured and all-encompassing application that aims to provide you with an integrated development environment and all the necessary tools for robot simulations.

This means that this robot simulator is based on a distributed control architecture, and this, in turn, means that each element, objects or model can be fully controlled with the help of an embedded script, a plugin, a ROS node, a collection of remote APIs or any custom solution.

All of the above make V-REP Pro the ideal tool for algorithm development, factory automation simulations, fast robot prototyping, remote monitoring, safety checking and robotics-related education.

And that’s just the beginning, as V-REP is truly one of those apps that impress you with its display of technologies. It bundles three physics engines that do a very good job of simulating the natural movements of robots, inverse and forward kinematics calculations and collision and minimum distance detection.

We’re not done yet, as V-REP Pro can also simulate how robot proximity and vision sensors work. You can build your own robotic systems or create custom paths and motion algorithms for your robots.

But what is really praise-worthy is how unintimidating it is to work with V-REP PRO: the app comes with a set of useful integrated edit modes, with an intuitive scene hierarchy view, a very easy to use model browser that also supports drag and drop motions and a fully customizable user interface.

To conclude, if you are looking for a robot simulator for your Mac, then V-REP Pro should definitely be on the top of your list of options, as it isn’t only very powerful, but user-friendly also, which is something quite rare when it comes to full-featured apps of this sorts.