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Tesseract

By Tesseract Robotics, from github.com/tesseract-robotics/tesseract (opens in a new tab)

  • Robot arms and industry
  • Framework
  • Apache-2.0 AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause

Tesseract is a lightweight, ROS-agnostic motion planning and kinematics framework in C++ with Python bindings, built from several core packages for environments, collision checking and kinematics.

Open on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

Facts

GitHub stars
400read on 6 Nov 2026
Last update
4 Nov 2026Newest commit on master
Maintenance
Activea commit in the last 90 days
Difficulty
Advanced

Checked on GitHub on 6 Nov 2026.

Licenses

Code
Apache-2.0 (opens in a new tab) AND BSD-2-Clause (opens in a new tab) AND BSD-3-Clause (opens in a new tab)

Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab), LICENSE.Apache-2.0 (opens in a new tab) (Apache-2.0), LICENSE.BSD-2-Clause (opens in a new tab) (BSD-2-Clause) and LICENSE.BSD-3-Clause (opens in a new tab) (BSD-3-Clause) at commit 2564f50 (opens in a new tab), on 6 Nov 2026. A license text Robotheca's reader does not know: a person at Robotheca set it on 9 Nov 2026.

Commercial use
Yes

Overview

What it does: Robotheca's summary

  • Provides a main class managing the environment, forward and inverse kinematics, and loading of data.
  • Offers a common collision checking interface with Bullet and FCL implementations, covering discrete and continuous checks.
  • Includes an environment for adding, removing, moving and modifying links and joints.
  • Supplies a common kinematics interface with KDL and OPW implementations for chains, trees and graphs.
  • Includes a scene graph built on Boost Graph to manage connectivity of objects in the environment.
  • Ships a self-contained Python package on PyPI for Windows and Ubuntu, with a companion visualization package.

Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit b303c29, not by its creator.

The README

Read the README on GitHub (opens in a new tab)

Files and versions

Facts read at commit 2564f50

Robotheca read the repository at two versions: the summary at b303c29 and the facts at 2564f50 (read on 6 Nov 2026).

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Use it

How to install it, in the creator's words: The project's website (opens in a new tab)

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