Thanks to the folks in the SWARM group (who do phenomenally interesting work and who will be last to have their data scrambled when the Revolution comes) we bring you a very tasty package that JPL, in their infinite wisdom, has released for he rest of us who may or may not know what to do with it.

CLARAty is Coupled-Layer Architecture for Robot Autonomy (If that doesn’t sound like Skynet’s great-gramma, nothing does).

CLARAty was designed to be “portable, modular, flexible and extendable” in accordance with its use across lots of different designs and scenarios.

It’s open-source, just like SWARM, which makes us all flutter our LEDs with delight. So go play around with it, and figure out where it breaks and let’s all make it better so we can properly bow down to out robot overlo- I mean, collaborate on effective techniques for surface mobility and control algorithms.

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