Introducing BeamCloud
Soft-body simulation for cars, robots and structures, running on our hardware and streamed to your browser. The private beta is open.
Soft-body simulation shows how a design bends, dents and breaks, not just where the stress goes. It is also expensive to run. The solver needs dedicated CPU time, so most teams end up waiting on a workstation or a licence before they can try an idea.
BeamCloud moves all of that onto our hardware. You open a test in a browser tab and watch it run.
What it runs on
BeamCloud runs OpenBeam, our open-source soft-body engine. Every vehicle, robot and structure is a set of nodes joined by beams, and each beam has its own stiffness, yield point and breaking force. The solver steps at a fixed 2 kHz on dedicated cores, so a crash plays out the way the structure says it should.
What you can do with it
- Script tests in AngelScript or Lua, and run many variations in parallel.
- Drive vehicles and operate robot arms live while the solver runs.
- Record runs with their inputs and physics data in sync, then replay them frame by frame.
- Upload your own vehicles, robots, scripts and maps.
- Run one simulation with several people at once.
From the test bench
Run experiments in parallel: one inside the design’s limits, one past it. Two examples:
The robot gripper and steel space frame tests are on the home page.
Pricing
Personal is $30 a month for 30 simulation hours. Business, for teams, is planned at $150 a month and is not open yet. Enterprise runs inside your own network; talk to us.
Join the beta
We are letting teams in gradually. Teams with a defined crash, deformation or contact problem get priority.
Questions? Email Beshoy@openbeam.world.