Start with a physical robot

Practice on the physical kit (Real). Using Sim2Real, you optimize what you practiced in the simulator for the real world.

Run the physical robot

1. Connect a sufficiently charged battery to the robot.
2. Turn the side power button to On to start the robot. (0: Off, 1: On)
3. Wait until the rear display appears.
4. When the Internet (WiFi) connection screen appears, select a WiFi network to connect. (Or you can connect from Network > Internet > WiFi using the Connect button.)

   You can still practice without Internet (WiFi), but connecting is recommended. Without Internet, some features are limited. (AI features — the PHYSICAR AI panel and the realtime agent — cannot be used.)

5. Follow the steps below to access the console.
   1. Go to Network > Connect.
   2. Step 1 Connect to WiFi
      Check the robot's WIFI SSID (physicar-xxxxxxxx) and PW, then find and connect to that WIFI from your laptop.
   3. Step 2 Open in browser
      Open a web browser on your laptop and go to https://real.physicar.ai.

      We recommend the Chrome browser.

Console path structure

https://real.physicar.ai provides several access paths. The paths are described below.

Path	Address	Description
/	real.physicar.ai	Code editor — VS Code in the browser (as in the simulator), opening the /home/physicar/physicar_ws workspace
/app	real.physicar.ai/app	Console — CONTROL, MYAPP, and VNC tabs plus the live Sensors column
/myapp	real.physicar.ai/myapp	Your own web app served on port 5000 (also shown in the MYAPP tab)
/vnc	real.physicar.ai/vnc	Remote screen — the robot's desktop display

The workspace is seeded with the same examples/ notebooks as the simulator, so your Sim2Real practice carries straight over.

🛠 Mission: power the kit on, connect to its WiFi, and drive the car by hand from the CONTROL tab at /app while watching the Sensors column react.

Learn more

What's inside the kit → Physical kit architecture. Robot endpoints → Web / REST API reference. No kit yet → Start with a virtual robot.