Open Source

We extensively use Open Source Software in our work to accelerate innovation and delivery. We are also committed to contributing back and creating new projects.

Past Presentations on OSS Conferences

ROSCon 2022, Kyoto

Talk about our ROS 2 distributed simulator for Unreal Engine, an open source game engine. Combining UE’s multiplayer game features with rclUE, a distributed simulation environment for ROS 2.

ROS World 2021 ALICA

How to graphically model multi-agent behaviors and live debug those behaviors independent from the location of the deployed agents. This is demonstrated with a warehouse automation use case, including multiple forklifts and an AGVs.

ROSCon 2019, Macau

ROS in the Jupyter Notebook in collaboration with Quanstack, France.

KubeCon 2018, Copenhagen

Building a Platform-as-a-Service for Robotics with Kubernetes.

ROSCon 2017, Vancouver

How to accelerate application development using a Cloud Robotics platform.

RosCon2013 Understanding the RoboEarth Cloud

Gajan Mohanarajah talks about the RoboEarth Cloud.

Our Open Source Leadership

ALICA

The ALICA Framework (A Language for Interactive Cooperative Agents) is an open source multi-agent coordination framework that originates from the highly dynamic domain of robotic soccer.

ROS2 Client Library for UE

rclUE is a tool that enables cloud robotics simulation in Unreal Engine. rclUE bridges UE4 and ROS2, opening UE4’s tools to ROS developers through a C++ interface. Furthermore non-ROS engineers will be able to quickly set up robot simulations through UE4’s blueprint visual scripting language by using the instruments that ROS developers and the plugin exposed.

Amphion and Zethus

Amphion and Zethus are two JavaScript libraries to visualize ROS data from remote WebSocket endpoints in the browser. Zethus is the browser equivalent of RViz, built on top of Amphion. Amphion can be seen as an alternative to ros3djs with enhancements to design and performance.

ROSCon Sponsorships

ROSCon is the largest annual gathering for the community using and developing the open-source ROS – Robot Operating System. We support and stand behind the mission to bring together the diverse and global community of ROS developers.

ROSCon 2017 – Gold
ROSCon JP 2019 – Gold
ROS World 2020 – Gold
ROS World 2021 – Platinum
ROSCon 2022 – Gold