teleop (Spes Robotics)
- Software
- Robot arms and industry
- Tool
A Python package that turns a phone into a teleoperation device for robot arms, using the phone's WebXR-based pose tracking sent through a server on a computer.
Made by SpesRobotics.
Source on GitHub: github.com/SpesRobotics/teleop (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit c5d8081 (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 c5d8081 (opens in a new tab), on 22 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Runs a server on your computer and serves a web app that a phone opens to stream its 3D position and orientation.
- Ships ready-to-use interfaces for a basic printout example, the uFactory Lite 6 arm via xArm, and ROS 2.
- Includes a ROS 2 interface publishing target poses and transforms, designed mainly for cartesian_controllers.
- A ROS 2 interface with inverse kinematics supports joint-trajectory control, with Panda and xArm examples.
- Lets developers build custom interfaces by subscribing a callback to pose updates from the Teleop class.
- Optional utilities provide Pinocchio-based kinematics and servoing, plus a ROS 2 wrapper that loads URDF from the robot description.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit c5d8081.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- Hardware it needs, as the project states it
- The phone must support the WebXR API; on iPhone, XR Browser or WebXR Viewer is needed since Safari does not support WebXR.
- How to start
- The project's website (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Maintained: a commit in the last 12 months
- Newest commit
- 17 Jul 2026 on main
- Latest release
- 0.1.5 (19 Apr 2026)
Checked on GitHub on 22 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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