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Both Simulate and Live start in Monitor. Select Control explicitly to enable control inputs; changing modes returns to Monitor.

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One assistant across views

The Environment Assistant keeps the same conversation in Edit, Simulation and Live, with labels showing where each request happened. Monitor inspects; Control can plan robot actions or propose a new skill. Review in Simulation/Live opens the existing execution controls; a plan is not a command. Changing views does not stop an already-running robot or training job—use its explicit stop/cancel control. Scene and workflow changes belong in Edit; review a workflow’s runtime target before running it. While a simulation is running, the right-hand panel shows a Simulation view tile alongside your robots’ camera feeds. It is the simulator’s own render of the scene — with its lighting, shadows, materials and contact geometry — rather than the 3D scene the browser draws.

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It follows your camera

Orbit, pan or zoom the 3D viewport and the simulation view follows. There is nothing to aim separately: the tile shows the same viewpoint, rendered by the physics engine. A few things worth knowing:
  • It lags slightly while you move. The video is encoded and streamed, so it settles a moment after you stop moving. The 3D scene stays immediate.
  • Everyone shares one camera. If two people have the environment open, the view follows whoever moved last.
  • It is never recorded. Unlike a robot’s camera, this view is not saved to your recordings — it exists only while someone is watching.

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When it appears

The tile shows up automatically in the right panel’s Simulation tab once a simulation is running, whether or not any robot carries a camera. Its stream is off by default; use the header button to enable it. The tile disappears when the simulation stops.

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Turning it off

The button in the tile’s header switches the view off and back on at any point during a run — no restart, and nothing to set up beforehand. While it is off, the right-hand panel is closed, or you switch to Agent, its camera updates stop and the simulator’s viewport expires after its idle timeout. Robot-camera streams and an already-running simulation are independent of this preference. Your choice is remembered per environment.