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Top 23 C++ Robotic Projects
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Bullet
Bullet Physics SDK: real-time collision detection and multi-physics simulation for VR, games, visual effects, robotics, machine learning etc.
Physics and Game Engines: Implement high performance physics with Wasm-compiled versions of well established engines. For instance, Ammo.js is a Wasm version of the popular bullet physics engine written in C++.
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Project mention: Nitro: A tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-22
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jetson-inference
Hello AI World guide to deploying deep-learning inference networks and deep vision primitives with TensorRT and NVIDIA Jetson.
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cartographer
Cartographer is a system that provides real-time simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in 2D and 3D across multiple platforms and sensor configurations. (by cartographer-project)
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OpenMower
Let's upgrade cheap off-the-shelf robotic mowers to modern, smart RTK GPS based lawn mowing robots!
I had posted this several years back trying to figure out options in NA without much luck: https://github.com/ClemensElflein/OpenMower/issues/8
Sounds like the hardware platform isn't available anywhere at all now.
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OpenCat-Quadruped-Robot
An open source quadruped robot pet framework for developing Boston Dynamics-style four-legged robots that are perfect for STEM, coding & robotics education, IoT robotics applications, AI-enhanced robotics application services, research, and DIY robotics kit development.
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Project mention: A Short Introduction to Automotive Lidar Technology | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-11-26
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pinocchio
A fast and flexible implementation of Rigid Body Dynamics algorithms and their analytical derivatives
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Fast-DDS
The most complete DDS - Proven: Plenty of success cases. Looking for commercial support? Contact [email protected]
Project mention: Fast DDS – C++ Implementation of the DDS (Data Distribution Service) from OMG | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-20 -
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CHRONO
High-performance C++ library for multiphysics and multibody dynamics simulations (by projectchrono)
Project mention: Projectchrono - an Open Source Multi-Physics Simulation Engine | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-29 -
Simbody
High-performance C++ multibody dynamics/physics library for simulating articulated biomechanical and mechanical systems like vehicles, robots, and the human skeleton.
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CppRobotics
cpp implementation of robotics algorithms including localization, mapping, SLAM, path planning and control (by onlytailei)
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
C++ Robotics discussion
C++ Robotics related posts
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Webots: Open-Source Robot Simulator
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Projectchrono - an Open Source Multi-Physics Simulation Engine
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Protoclone, the first bipedal, musculoskeletal Android
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Robotics and ROS2 Course by University of Eastern Finland
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Making my first robot as a software engineer
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Best Foosball Robot
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Making Foosbar: the (unverifiably but plausibly) best foosball robot [video]
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A note from our sponsor - Sevalla
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Robotic projects in C++? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bullet | 13,677 |
| 2 | ardupilot | 13,411 |
| 3 | PCL | 10,588 |
| 4 | mujoco | 10,454 |
| 5 | jetson-inference | 8,472 |
| 6 | cartographer | 7,467 |
| 7 | OpenMower | 5,797 |
| 8 | OpenCat-Quadruped-Robot | 4,139 |
| 9 | webots | 3,743 |
| 10 | BehaviorTree.CPP | 3,539 |
| 11 | navigation2 | 3,389 |
| 12 | rtabmap | 3,317 |
| 13 | habitat-sim | 3,143 |
| 14 | pinocchio | 2,647 |
| 15 | Fast-DDS | 2,545 |
| 16 | open_vins | 2,520 |
| 17 | CHRONO | 2,509 |
| 18 | Simbody | 2,445 |
| 19 | MRPT | 2,068 |
| 20 | CppRobotics | 2,028 |
| 21 | champ | 1,938 |
| 22 | moveit | 1,917 |
| 23 | ompl | 1,815 |
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