GRID Docs | General Robotics

A scene is the environment your robot spawns into. You pick one when you start the session:

GRID # session start sim

Industrial and infrastructure

Scene	Description
`substation`	Electrical substation with transformers and power lines
`electric_central`	Power-generation site with wind turbines
`oil_rig`	Offshore oil rig with platforms, cranes, and walkways
`warehouse_big`	Large warehouse environment
`hangar`	Airplane hangar environment

These are the inspection scenes — tight geometry, repeated structure, and the kind of clutter that makes visual navigation hard.

Outdoor and natural

Scene	Description
`nordic_forest`	Nordic forest environment with trees, rocks, and terrain
`forest_fire`	Forest fire scenario with trees, smoke, and fire effects
`abandoned_building`	Abandoned building and surroundings with debris and narrow passages

forest_fire carries live smoke and fire effects, which makes it the useful one for testing perception under degraded visibility.

Planetary

Scene	Description
`moon`	Moon surface environment with craters and rocks
`mars`	Mars surface environment with rocks, dust, and terrain

Minimal

Scene	Description
`blocks`	Simple Blocks environment
`empty`	Empty world

blocks is the fastest scene to load and the right default when you are testing control logic rather than perception. empty gives you a bare world to place your own objects into.

Scene availability depends on your organization’s asset access. If a scene you expect is missing from the CLI picker, reach out on our Discord Community or by email.

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