MathWorks :: MATLAB & Simulink – Technical Computing & Model-Based Design Platforms

MathWorks is the developer of MATLAB and Simulink, the leading technical computing and Model-Based Design platforms used by millions of engineers and scientists worldwide. Headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts, the company provides essential software tools that accelerate the design, simulation, and deployment of complex engineered systems across industries such as aerospace, automotive, robotics, communications, and energy.

Although MathWorks does not manufacture physical hardware, its robotics-focused offerings form a comprehensive software ecosystem for robot-based systems. The Robotics System Toolbox enables users to design, simulate, and deploy manipulators, mobile robots, and autonomous vehicles. It supports kinematics, dynamics, path planning, control, and sensor fusion, with direct integration to ROS and hardware-in-the-loop testing. Simulink and Simscape allow engineers to model entire robotic systems — including mechanical, electrical, and hydraulic components — for rapid prototyping and verification of robot controllers before hardware is built.

Additional capabilities include the Computer Vision Toolbox, Lidar Toolbox, and Navigation Toolbox for perception, mapping, and localization, as well as reinforcement learning and AI tools for autonomous behavior. These platforms are widely used to develop industrial robot arms, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), drone swarms, surgical robots, and self-driving vehicles. Customers leverage MathWorks tools to reduce development time, validate safety-critical algorithms, and generate production code for embedded robot controllers.