  PyRep is a toolkit for robot learning research, built on top of the virtual
robotics experimentation platform (V-REP). Through a series of modifications
and additions, we have created a tailored version of V-REP built with robot
learning in mind. The new PyRep toolkit offers three improvements: (1) a simple
and flexible API for robot control and scene manipulation, (2) a new rendering
engine, and (3) speed boosts upwards of 10,000x in comparison to the previous
Python Remote API. With these improvements, we believe PyRep is the ideal
toolkit to facilitate rapid prototyping of learning algorithms in the areas of
reinforcement learning, imitation learning, state estimation, mapping, and
computer vision.
