Its purpose is to provide free and widely accessible tools for conducting biomechanics research and motor control science.

OpenSim enables a wide range of studies, including analysis of walking dynamics, studies of sports performance, simulations of surgical procedures, analysis of joint loads, design of medical devices, and animation of human and animal movement.

OpenSim is used in hundreds of biomechanics laboratories around the world to study movement and has a community of software developers contributing new features.

Founded in 2004, Simbios is charged with a mandate to provide leading software and computational tools for physics-based modeling and simulation of biological structures.

OpenSim was designed to propel biomechanics research by providing a common framework for investigation and a vehicle for exchanging complex musculoskeletal models.