Build robotics simulation in minutes, straight from your terminal with just prompts. Everything you need for ROS, Simulator, Plugins, and OS orchestration. Build any robot and world, launch it in simulation, and wire up your control loop - all from a single prompt. Fix issues swiftly with drift as it actively tracks all ROS states, workspace and the simulator.
being able to spin up a full robotics sim from a single prompt is prety wild. the fact that it tracks ROS states and workspace in real time makes it way more useable than most sim tools ive tried. congrats on the launch
When Swastika reached out to me a week ago, I immediately told her this is going to be a good launch. Largely because I saw Antler and second, the niche you're building is very refreshing for Product Hunt audience. Many congratulations Nikhil and team for launching and securing the Product of the Day. BTW, Do you have a public roadmap?
Does Drift support custom plugins or only predefined simulation components right now?
How does Drift handle failures mid-simulation? Does it auto-recover or suggest fixes only?
Congrats. How Drift compares to existing ROS tooling in terms of debugging depth?
Vibe coding for robotics is a space I hadn't thought about but it makes total sense. The hard part with ROS has always been the orchestration overhead - knowing which nodes are running, what topics exist, debugging why the simulation drifted. How much of the prompt-to-simulation pipeline is Drift generating vs. stitching together existing ROS packages?
been wrestling with ROS simulation setup for our hardware integrations and this looks like exactly what we needed six months ago. love that it handles the OS orchestration too - that's usually where things get messy. how does it perform with real-time constraints when you're testing control loops?
Drift shows commands before running them and can be paused mid-execution—how did you decide the boundary between full automation and user control, and what tradeoffs did you make to keep it reliable for real robotics stacks (dependencies, environment state, multi-terminal processes, reproducibility/CI)?
Really impressive — the idea of prompt-to-simulation for robotics is a huge unlock. The fact that it actively tracks ROS states and fixes issues on the fly is what separates this from just being another wrapper. Curious: do you have plans to support multi-robot swarm simulations? That would be incredible for drone research. Congrats on the launch!
Can I bring my own existing ROS workspace into drift, or does it only work with robots it generates itself? I have my own robot I've been working on.
I spent several months working on robotic simulations with ROS and Webots, the concept of your tool is very interesting👍
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Swastika, devrel at Drift AI and I'll be honest, I'm the newest person on this team. I joined not too long ago, came from a completely different corner of tech, and knew next to nothing about robotics when I walked in.
That's actually why I wanted to drop a comment here.
Because if someone like me, with zero robotics background, can get Drift running, set up a simulation, and start actually understanding what's happening under the hood, then I genuinely believe any developer can. The whole point of Drift is that you shouldn't need to be a simulation expert to work with one.
That said, getting started with any new tool has its rough edges, especially on day one. So I'm here. If you're trying to install Drift and hitting a wall, if something isn't working on your Mac (Drift runs on Ubuntu but works well on MAC with VMware), if your simulation isn't launching or your ROS environment is being weird; drop a comment below or reach out directly. I'll be watching this thread all day and will personally help you.
Really proud of what this small team has built and excited to see what you all do with it.
Give it a try ❤️🦾
Hey, drift is awesome! I'm a mac user, does drift work for me or is this linux only? A lot of great robotics tools end up being ubuntu only and it's always a pain for mac users….
Engineers spend 60% of their time building simulations but -
Simulation environments always get into setup & runtime nightmares.
Robotics engineers feel like software or IT engineers fixing these issues, taking away their focus from the actual robot, the physics, the maths - which is their actual motivation to build in robotics!
Current coding agents don’t have the necessary context, control and understanding of orchestrating - ROS, simulator, OS, plugins together to get simulations running reliably.
Drift fixes this. You describe what you want, it handles the rest - generating/editing robot & world description, publishing ROS nodes, setting up the simulator, generating controller configs, launch files, building the workspace, launching the sim. When something breaks, it inspects running nodes, checks topic connections, traces the command chain, understands from previous success-fail chains and fixes it.
Right now Drift is completely free in public beta. Happy to answer any questions here and would love your feedback.
“AI agent to run robot simulations faster and reliably”
Drift launched on Product Hunt on March 24th, 2026 and earned 259 upvotes and 32 comments, placing #5 on the daily leaderboard. Build robotics simulation in minutes, straight from your terminal with just prompts. Everything you need for ROS, Simulator, Plugins, and OS orchestration. Build any robot and world, launch it in simulation, and wire up your control loop - all from a single prompt. Fix issues swiftly with drift as it actively tracks all ROS states, workspace and the simulator.
Drift was featured in Robots (10.6k followers), Developer Tools (511k followers) and Artificial Intelligence (466.2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 157.1k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Drift?
Drift was hunted by fmerian. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Want to see how Drift stacked up against nearby launches in real time? Check out the live launch dashboard for upvote speed charts, proximity comparisons, and more analytics.
fmerian
being able to spin up a full robotics sim from a single prompt is prety wild. the fact that it tracks ROS states and workspace in real time makes it way more useable than most sim tools ive tried. congrats on the launch