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play_motion_builder

  • Software
  • Robot arms and industry
  • Tool

A ROS toolkit for designing and creating predefined robot motions, with a node, an RQT GUI, and a JavaScript library for interfacing with it.

Made by PAL Robotics S.L., Spain (checked on github.com/pal-robotics (opens in a new tab)).

Source on GitHub: github.com/pal-robotics/play_motion_builder (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 879c824 (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 879c824 (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.

Commercial use
Yes

What it does

  • Provides message, action and service definitions for communication between its components.
  • Contains the main package with the data model and the motion creation node.
  • Offers an RQT-based frontend for controlling the motion creation pipeline.
  • Includes a JavaScript library based on roslibjs plus a ready-to-use HTML front-end.

Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 879c824.

Getting started

Difficulty
Intermediate

Maintenance

Status
Maintained: a commit in the last 12 months
Newest commit
14 Jul 2026 on humble-devel
Latest release
None published on GitHub

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.

Robotheca lists software as a reference: nothing is hosted or run here, and every fact links to where it was read.