Real-world robots and automation infrastructure cannot escape the laws of physics.  Your simulation shouldn’t either.  Combining Newtonian physics simulation with visualization and other engines can allow you to track robots in their tasks, simulating friction, restitution forces, mass, gravity, and other physical properties. CoroWare’s engineers have experience with a variety of physics simulators and can integrate one or even several of them into your simulator.  (Depicted is a simple physics interaction.)