Open software that robots run on, with the license read from each project's license file, whether it is still maintained, and the robots on Robotheca that use it. A reference, not a download site: every entry links to its source.
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A Python serial utility for flashing, provisioning and talking to Espressif chips. It runs on any platform with Python and a serial connection.
grblHAL is a high-performance G-code motion controller firmware for CNC machines, a port and rewrite of grbl 1.1f for 32-bit microcontrollers.
NASA's open-source core Flight System bundle, a generic flight software framework with demo apps that builds, runs and exchanges telemetry and commands with a ground system.
A C++ library with Python bindings for interfacing with Luxonis DepthAI hardware, supporting pipelines that can span one or several devices.
Piper is a fast, local neural text-to-speech engine that uses espeak-ng for phonemization. It can be installed with pip as piper-tts.
eCAL is a brokerless middleware for fast interprocess communication on one computer or across a network, offering publish-subscribe and server-client patterns with little configuration.
Unitree's second-generation C++ software development kit for controlling Unitree robots. It provides the library and examples needed to build applications that talk to the robots.
A long-range packet radio link that runs over raw WiFi radio, carrying UDP-style data such as video, MAVLink telemetry, and IP traffic between a drone and a ground station.
VESC Tool is the desktop and mobile configuration program for VESC motor controllers, used to tune and manage them. It is built with Qt and offers binaries for several platforms.
ROS 2 nodes that read a range of robotics sensors (stereo cameras, GNSS receivers, IMUs, Velodyne lidars) through the mrpt-hwdrivers library and publish their data as ROS messages.
Vosk is an offline open source speech recognition toolkit supporting more than 20 languages, with streaming recognition and bindings for many programming languages.
Nebula is a universal sensor driver platform for ROS 2, mainly targeting Ethernet-based LiDAR sensors, and is the recommended driver for the Autoware project.
A ROS 2 package that connects the ros2_control controller architecture to the Gazebo simulator through a Gazebo-Sim system plugin.
A Python wrapper for the MAVSDK drone control library that talks to a C++ gRPC server to command MAVLink-based vehicles. Published on PyPI as mavsdk-grpc.
INAV is open-source flight controller firmware for multirotors, fixed-wing aircraft and other vehicles, adding navigation features like position hold and return to home.
Mission Planner is a Windows ground control station for ArduPilot-based drones and vehicles, used to plan missions, configure and monitor them. It also runs on Linux (via Mono) and Android.
A ROS2 LiDAR-inertial SLAM system that builds maps from sub-maps, closes loops, and aligns multiple recording sessions into one frame.
A Python library for reading and controlling a car's steering, gas, brakes and other functions over its CAN bus, mainly to support openpilot's driver-assistance features.
A logging, telemetry, and replay framework from Team 6328 for robot code, enabling replay of a robot's full state in simulation from a log file.
Webots is an open-source robot simulator providing a complete environment to model, program and simulate robots, vehicles and mechanical systems, aimed at beginners in robotics.
BEHAVIOR-1K is a simulation benchmark for testing embodied AI agents on 1,000 everyday household activities such as cleaning, cooking, and organizing.
Firmware and Python library for panda, a board that speaks CAN and CAN FD buses, built to run on an STM32H725 microcontroller.
MAVSDK is a set of cross-platform libraries giving a high-level API to MAVLink, the messaging protocol used to communicate with drones and other vehicles.
MicroPython library for the XRP robot controller board, used to program the XRP robot through its tutorials.
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