Automate iPad using Sikuli

They say to control iPad via VNC you have to jailbreak it first.
Google "iPad, VNC, jailbreak" for the info.

Is there a way to achieve this without jailbreaking iPad? for me, Jailbreak is not an option :(

Never heard of such, how hard I ever tried to find it, neither my colleagues (I work next to web and mobile automation team). iOS is very restrictive platform. So, I'm afraid, your choice is limited to "jailbreak or simulator".

In my experience with iOS simulator it is very good to find bugs, so I'd like to recommend you to give it a try.

I am actually trying to convince my client over eggplant. Eggplant has a plugin for iOS. But the negative point they have on Eggplant is that client needs license for that.

While I am reading different blogs, I found that there's a way to run Python codes in iOS. Do you have any experience, running Python codes in iOS? I'm just wondering if it possible to run Sikuli scripts this way as a workaround. Let me your thoughts.

Python is only the language used in Sikuli script, but the executing runtime environment for the scripts is Jython (Java based Python interpreter) and Java (where all the features finally are implemented with).

So as Roman already pointed out:
The curent implementation of Sikuli cannot be used on iOS (and in my opinion, jailbreaking does not make sense for trying to run Sikuli on an iOS device).

Thanks for the reply RaiMan.

Can we expect Sikuli to support iOS in future version of Sikuli ?

If I will ever try that, then only very late this year (if it is possible at all).
Android will come first during 2014.

Until then you have to either use the emulator or setup some VNC based solution.

Ruwan, I explored the possibility of using eggplant in the past. Even their solution need vnc, so jailbreak is unavoidable.