panda-py
- Software
- Robot arms and industry
- Library
Python bindings for controlling Franka Emika robots (Panda and FR3) through libfranka. Lets you program the arm directly from Python code and Jupyter notebooks.
Source on GitHub: github.com/JeanElsner/panda-py (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 4da8a6a (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- Apache-2.0 (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (Apache-2.0) at commit 4da8a6a (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Provides Python bindings to control Franka Emika Panda and Franka Research 3 robot arms via libfranka.
- Other libfranka versions are available as prebuilt wheels, chosen by matching the robot's system and server version.
- Includes a tutorial paper, Jupyter notebooks and examples meant to run directly on the robot.
- An extension named franka_desk offers a client for the Desk REST API with a ROS 2 wrapper for the FR3.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 4da8a6a.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- How to start
- The project's website (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Active: a commit in the last 90 days
- Newest commit
- 1 Oct 2026 on main
- Latest release
- v1.1.1 (1 Oct 2026)
Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.
Links
Robots that can run it
No robot on Robotheca is linked to it yet. Links come from a robot's robot.yaml, from its dependency files read as text, or from Robotheca's editors.
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