Sugarcoat
- Software
- Middleware
- Framework
Sugarcoat is a Python orchestration layer for event-driven ROS 2 systems, part of the EMOS ecosystem. It helps build lifecycle-managed components and combine them into self-healing systems.
Made by Automatika Robotics, France (checked on github.com/automatika-robotics (opens in a new tab)).
Source on GitHub: github.com/automatika-robotics/sugarcoat (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit e700847 (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- MIT (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (MIT) at commit e700847 (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Components are managed lifecycle nodes with type-safe configuration and declarative auto-wiring of inputs and outputs.
- Components report health status and trigger distributed fallbacks to recover from failures without crashing.
- Global events and actions are defined in Python and monitor ROS 2 topics to trigger responses.
- A Launcher offers a Python alternative to ros2 launch, supervising component lifecycles with threads or processes.
- Robot plugins translate generic automation recipes so they can run on different robots.
- A dynamic web UI is generated automatically for topics, parameters, events, and recipes.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit e700847.
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
- 13 Sept 2026 on main
- Latest release
- 0.5.0 (14 Feb 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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