Open software that robots run on, with the license read from each project's license file, whether it is still maintained, and the robots on Robotheca that use it. A reference, not a download site: every entry links to its source.
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A beginner-friendly, open-source version of Python for microcontrollers, based on MicroPython, that runs code.py from a CIRCUITPY drive and reloads on save.
FluidNC is CNC machine firmware for the ESP32 controller, the next generation from the creators of Grbl_ESP32, with a built-in web UI for controlling machines.
MCAP is a logging library and file format widely used in robotics, built to handle varied workloads, resource limits, and durability needs.
A ROS2 driver that streams raw event-camera data from Prophesee Metavision SDK cameras and publishes it as ROS event_camera_msgs. Not written or supported by Prophesee.
Open-source SDK for Reachy Mini, an expressive desktop robot kit aimed at hackers and AI builders, for scripting its head, camera, audio and behaviors.
acados is a C library with Python, MATLAB and Octave interfaces that provides fast embedded solvers for nonlinear optimal control, aimed at real-time MPC and MHE.
Kornia is a differentiable computer vision library built on PyTorch, offering image processing, augmentation, geometry and pretrained AI models that integrate into deep learning workflows.
Genesis World is a simulation platform for physical AI, combining a multi-physics engine, a renderer and a cross-platform compiler behind a Python interface.
FreeRTOS Kernel is a real-time operating system kernel for microcontrollers, supplying the core task, queue, and scheduling code plus ports to many chip and compiler combinations.
The Arduino IDE 2.x is a desktop development environment for writing and uploading programs to Arduino boards. It is a rewrite built on the Theia framework and Electron.
Autoware is an open-source software stack for autonomous driving, meant to speed up commercial deployment of self-driving vehicles across different platforms and use cases.
Newton is a GPU-accelerated physics simulation engine built on NVIDIA Warp, aimed at roboticists and simulation researchers, with MuJoCo Warp as its primary backend.
MediaPipe is an open-source framework and set of libraries for building on-device machine learning features such as vision, text, and audio tasks across mobile, web, desktop, and edge devices.
Chrono is an open-source multi-physics package for modeling and simulating rigid and flexible multibody systems, granular dynamics, fluid-solid interaction, and robotics.
COLMAP is a general-purpose Structure-from-Motion and Multi-View Stereo pipeline with graphical and command-line interfaces, for reconstructing 3D scenes from image collections.
LeRobot is a PyTorch library of models, datasets, and tools for real-world robotics, aiming to lower the barrier to entry for shared datasets and pretrained models.
RoboPlan is an experimental C++ robot motion planning library built on Pinocchio, offering inverse kinematics, RRT, and Cartesian path planners.
OpenCV is an open source computer vision library. It provides tools for image and video processing and analysis, with documentation, a Q&A forum and an issue tracker for users and contributors.
Gazebo Sim is an open source robotics simulator offering physics, rendering, and sensor models, with a graphical interface, plugins, and message passing for interaction.
A set of ROS 2 packages that wrap MRPT localization, sensor pipeline, and navigation functionality for mobile robots.
A ROS 2 tool that generates C++ or Python code for declaring, reading, and validating node parameters from a declarative YAML file.
ROS 2 packages that embed llama.cpp so GGUF language, vision-language, audio and embedding models can run inside ROS 2 projects.
Agnocast is a zero-copy inter-process communication middleware for rclcpp that carries all ROS message types, including rosidl-generated structs, without copying them.
PlatformIO Core is the command-line engine behind the PlatformIO ecosystem for embedded software development. It builds, debugs and tests firmware across many boards and architectures.
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