Cerulion

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Open source operating system for robots

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Cerulion is an open source operating system for robots built by 2 MIT robotics PhDs. Engineers at Amazon Robotics and Boston Dynamics AI Institute are using us to develop faster and ship more reliable robots than with ROS. With up to 1000x improvements in communications performance over state of the art, Cerulion is enabling the next generation of embodied AI.

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Cerulion — Robot middleware that just works

Cerulion is a high-performance, zero-copy Rust communication framework for real-time robotics. Deterministic, microsecond-scale IPC, and a faster alternative to ROS2.

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