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ROSboard – lightweight web dashboard for visualizing ROS topics

September 25, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific, Web Apps

ROSboard is a lightweight web dashboard for visualizing ROS topics, sensor data and robot telemetry from desktop and mobile browsers.

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Vizanti – web visualizer and mission planner for ROS robots

September 24, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific, Web Apps

Vizanti is a web-based ROS mission planner and visualizer for controlling outdoor robots from desktops, tablets and mobile devices.

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Choreonoid – integrated graphical framework for robot development

September 24, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Choreonoid is an extensible graphical robotics framework with model visualization, dynamics simulation, motion editing and plugin support.

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RTAB-Map – graph-based SLAM and 3D mapping application

September 23, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

RTAB-Map is a graph-based SLAM application and library for robot mapping, localization, loop closure detection and 3D map generation.

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PlotJuggler – interactive time series and multimodal data analysis

May 26, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

PlotJuggler analyzes recorded and live time-series data with synchronized video, 3D scenes, custom transforms and interactive plots.

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marina – dataset manager for robotics

March 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

marina is a dataset manager for robotics to organize, share, and discover datasets and bags across storage backends.

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Webots – robot simulator

September 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Webots provides a complete development environment to model, program, and simulate robots, vehicles, and mechanical systems.

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NASA Vision Workbench – computer vision framework

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

NASA Vision Workbench is a modular C++ image processing and computer vision framework for large imagery, mapping and 3D reconstruction.

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DART – Dynamic Animation and Robotics Toolkit

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Programming, Scientific

DART provides kinematics, dynamics, collision detection and simulation tools for robotics and computer animation with C++ and Python APIs.

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Gazebo Sim – robot simulation platform

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Gazebo Sim is a robotics simulator with high-fidelity physics, rendering, sensor models, plugins, remote transport and graphical tools.

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ARGoS – multi-physics robot simulator

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

ARGoS is a free and open source multi-physics robot simulator. It can simulate large-scale swarms of robots of any kind efficiently.

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OpenRTM-aist – component-oriented robot development platform

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

OpenRTM-aist is an RT-Middleware implementation for building component-based robot systems with lifecycle, data-port and tooling support.

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The Player Project – software tools for robot and sensor applications

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

The Player Project creates Free Software that enables research in robot and sensor systems. It’s written in C++.

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Urbi – robotic programming language

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Universal Robot Body Interface (Urbi) is an open-source software platform to develop applications for robotics and complex systems.

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AprilTag – visual fiducial system for robotics

August 23, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

AprilTag is a compact visual fiducial system for robotics, camera calibration and pose estimation with robust real-time tag detection.

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