Top 18 Rust Robotic Projects

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1. rerun

   1 28 9,007 10.0 Rust

   Visualize streams of multimodal data. Free, fast, easy to use, and simple to integrate. Built in Rust.

   

   Project mention: AI Coding Agents Are Removing Programming Language Barriers | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-23

   > In which world is Rust fantastic for writing desktop applications? Where are the mature Rust UI frameworks?

   Rust has come a remarkably long way [1] !

   It's better than any language that isn't C/C++. We have bindings to all of the major UI toolkits, plus a lot of native toolkits.

   You can also use Electron/Tauri for Javascript, or Dioxus for something more performant. Egui is also really nice for dev tools.

   > What does this even mean?

   Rewrite It In Rust metrics tend to tell good stories.

   Developer blogs (links escaping me right now) show positive performance gains for lots of consumer desktop software written in whole or in parts using Rust. Discord, Slack, lots of other apps are starting to replace under-performing components in Rust.

   > For example? And what do you mean by "AI powered desktop apps"?

   Stuff like Zed [2] and the open source Photoshop-killer I'm working on (user-guided volumetric rendering, real time instructive Figma). The creator or egui works on Rerun [3], which is industrial / spatial visualization. Etc, etc.

   [1] https://areweguiyet.com/

   [2] https://zed.dev/

   [3] https://rerun.io/

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3. dora

   2 4 2,395 9.9 Rust

   DORA (Dataflow-Oriented Robotic Architecture) is middleware designed to streamline and simplify the creation of AI-based robotic applications. It offers low latency, composable, and distributed dataflow capabilities. Applications are modeled as directed graphs, also referred to as pipelines.

   

   Project mention: Robotics and ROS2 Course by University of Eastern Finland | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-19

4. zenoh

   3 17 1,991 9.7 Rust

   zenoh unifies data in motion, data in-use, data at rest and computations. It carefully blends traditional pub/sub with geo-distributed storages, queries and computations, while retaining a level of time and space efficiency that is well beyond any of the mainstream stacks.

   

   Project mention: Show HN: Decentralized robots (and things) orchestration system | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-18

   Looks very interesting!

   How does this compare with Zenoh [1]?

   Also, I'm curious why you all included "OS" in the name? Almost every introduction to ROS/ROS2 has to explain that it isn't actually an operating system, and it seems like hyveOS is headed for the same misunderstanding.

   [1]: https://zenoh.io/

5. ros2_rust

   4 6 1,166 7.4 Rust

   Rust bindings for ROS 2

   

6. copper-rs

   5 7 814 9.7 Rust

   Copper is a user friendly and deterministic runtime for building production-ready robots.

   

   Project mention: Copper v0.6: New Heterogeneous Computing Capabilities for Rust Robotics | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-21

   Release Notes: https://github.com/copper-project/copper-rs/wiki/Copper-Rele...

7. Peng

   6 2 680 8.2 Rust

   A minimal quadrotor autonomy framework in Rust (Mac, Linux, Windows)

   

   Project mention: Peng quadrotor autonomy framework visualized in the browser | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-11-07

8. optimization-engine

   7 4 574 8.0 Rust

   Nonconvex embedded optimization: code generation for fast real-time optimization + ROS support

   

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10. openrr

    8 4 565 7.6 Rust

    Open Rust Robotics

    

11. bonsai

    9 7 392 6.1 Rust

    Rust implementation of AI behavior trees. (by Sollimann)

    

12. CleanIt

    10 6 283 3.7 Rust

    Open-source Autonomy Software in Rust-lang using gRPC for the Roomba series robot vacuum cleaners. Under development.

    

13. mech

    11 7 234 9.9 Rust

    🦾 Mech is a programming language for building data-driven systems like robots, games, and interfaces. Start here!

    

    Project mention: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2025) | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-23

    I’m working on a programming language for robots called Mech!

    https://github.com/mech-lang/mech

    Mostly a research project until I find some more people who might be interest in pushing it more.

    A recent blog for anyone who wants to check it out: https://mech-lang.org/post/2025-01-09-programming-chatgpt/

    And a 10 minute video: https://www.hytradboi.com/2022/i-tried-rubbing-a-database-on...

14. robonomics

    12 1 222 6.7 Rust

    Robonomics node implementation for Polkadot ecosystem; Kusama parachain slot #2048 since January 2022

    

15. ncomm

    13 1 70 8.5 Rust

    Node-Based Robotics Framework Written in Rust

    

    Project mention: Ncomm – a node-based robotics framework written in Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-13

16. rs-opw-kinematics

    14 0 23 8.8 Rust

    Rust implementation of inverse and forward kinematic solutions for six-axis industrial robots with a parallel base and spherical wrist.

    

17. airsim-client

    15 1 18 4.6 Rust

    A Rust client library for Airsim.

    

18. rust_zmqRemoteApi

    16 1 13 6.2 Rust

    Rust ZeroMQ remote API for coppeliasim

    

19. syact

    17 1 11 8.4 Rust

    A library to control motors (mainly stepper motors), define actuators and their interactions with each other

    

20. sybot

    18 1 3 7.7 Rust

    Rust library for coordinating components, defining robotic systems and their communication

    

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• Rerun: Revolutionizing Data Visualization for Modern Projects

  1 project | dev.to | 21 Mar 2025

• Copper v0.6: New Heterogeneous Computing Capabilities for Rust Robotics

  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Jan 2025

• Some Programming Language Ideas

  12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Jan 2025

• Show HN: Copper – Open-Source Robotics in Rust with Deterministic Log Replay

  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Dec 2024

• Peng quadrotor autonomy framework visualized in the browser

  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Nov 2024

• Copper v0.4: a Rust-Powered Robot Engine. New Simulation APIs and a Demo

  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Oct 2024

• Ncomm – a node-based robotics framework written in Rust

  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Sep 2024
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