Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Basis – a production focused robotics framework
Hey HN! Myself and my cofounder are excited to actually launch the product we've been working for the past six months. It's a robotics framework with a focus on testing and production. The current industry standard (ROS) is great for prototyping, but suffers from performance and testing problems as the robot gets more complex. I would have loved to work on this another six months or a year to polish it up and really, but I know it's better to launch a bit before you think you're ready. It's a C++ pub-sub framework (a lot like ROS, in that way), but rather than declaring C++…
Basis is a robotics framework built with C++ that emphasizes testing and production deployment. Unlike ROS, which excels at prototyping but struggles with performance and testing as systems grow complex, Basis uses a… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Basis – a production focused robotics framework launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Cloud logging + visualization tools for robotic development
2020 · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, Three months ago, I took a job at Baseten to help craft and document an application builder that lets data scientists build full-stack, production-ready applications around their ML models without worrying about containers, Flask, or React. From my first day, everyone was focused on what would happen today: opening up our public beta. I’m super excited to see what you build with Baseten. If you want to take Baseten for a full-speed test drive, follow along with this tutorial, where you can build and deploy an application in 20 minutes:…
2022 · baseten.co · its alternatives →
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Orchestra 1.0▲195An open-source robotic process automation system 🚀
2019 · orchestra.b12.io · its alternatives →
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I'm Josh, founder of Synth. We've been working on coding agent optimization with method like GEPA and MIPRO (the latter of which, I helped to originally develop), agent evaluation via methods like RLMs, and large scale deployment for training and inference. We've also worked on patterns for memory, processing live context, and managing agent actions, combining it all in a single stack called Horizons. With the release of OpenAI's Frontier and the consumer excitement around OpenClaw, we think the timing is right to release a v0. It integrates with our sdk for evaluation and optimization but…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey, we’re Axel and Vignesh, cofounders of Innate (https://www.innate.bot/). We just launched MARS, a general-purpose robot with an open onboard agentic OS built on top of ROS2. Overview: https://youtu.be/GEOMYDXv6pE Control demo: https://youtu.be/_Cw5fGa8i3s Videos of autonomous use-cases: https://docs.innate.bot/welcome/mars-example-use-cases Quickstart: https://docs.innate.bot/welcome/mars-quick-start. Our last thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42451707 When we started we felt…
2025 · its alternatives →
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OLO Robotics▲119Control robots in your browser — no setup needed
Jun 2026 · olo-robotics.com · its alternatives →
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Simple API for authentication, email sending, image storage and more.
2019 · base-api.io · its alternatives →
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Open-source skills system that wires your business into AI
Feb 2026 · baselinestudio.design · its alternatives →
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Open-source TypeScript framework for AI dev: prompts, evals, tracing, cost tracking, security, and durable execution. Built for Claude Code.
Apr 2026 · output.ai · its alternatives →
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Easily develop, test, and deploy robotics applications
2018 · aws.amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Our new, free ros-tool capability makes it trivial to interact with ROS from the web. It provides a React API for subscribing and publish to topics and for placing service calls. It works with both ROS 1 and 2, and unlike rosbridge, it caches all data in the cloud, which means your UIs will work even when your robot is offline (just showing the latest data). Since all data is synced via the cloud, it is also much easier and more efficient to aggregate data from multiple robots, e.g., for showing your fleet on a map. Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgNdGvwYSiI
2024 · transitiverobotics.com · its alternatives →
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Back then there were not a lot of frameworks for C++ like there are available now, gradually added serialization, reflection, orm, modules for apache|nginx, then started adding programming language integration and then finally added support for building on various Os'es and also support for most of the build tools out there.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We've been building SensorSurf and are thrilled to share our beta with the robotics community: https://github.com/SensorSurf/agent. SensorSurf is an open source platform that makes it easy for robotics engineers to collect and search data from their fleet. You can define triggers for when to record data (e.g. emergency stop) and capture the moments leading up to the event with rolling buffers. We integrate directly with ROS. Drop our agent into your system, and start collecting data! ================= What prompted me to found this company: > I was a perception engineer…
2023 · sensorsurf.com · its alternatives →
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Now that AI is capable of writing large volumes of production-quality code, our role as developers is changing. Our primary job is no longer writing code. It’s planning and communicating software design and architecture. We have to do this collaboratively with agents and then review and iterate on their implementations. IDEs were not built for this workflow. So about three months ago I decided to try to build what I thought this new interface should look like. Runner is a coding agent purpose-built for this new “plan and review” workflow. It’s not for vibe coding. It’s for professional…
2025 · runnercode.com · its alternatives →
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Every once in a while, I hear developers complain about how working with ROS2 frustrates them, or students who find the barriers to understanding ROS2 too high. Undoubtedly, ROS2 was originally designed in the lab for the prototyping phase. However, being widely adopted has turned its design into a messy blob that is not only "thick" - and not in a good way - but also too tangled. Therefore, I came up with the design for HORUS -Hybrid Optimized Robotics Unified System. At first, I was just experimenting to see whether building a system that respects both the versions and dependencies of…
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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After three years in development, I'm thrilled to share Transitive: an open-source framework for full-stack robotic software (https://github.com/transitiverobotics/transitive). The Transitive framework makes it easy to build robot cloud portals. Even given all the great open-source tools for web development and device management, building such cloud portals for robots is still not an easy task. There are several reasons for this, but a big one is that robots are different from regular servers, despite many people attempting to tread them as such. They go offline a lot,…
2024 · transitiverobotics.com · its alternatives →
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Writer Framework is an open-source framework for creating AI applications. Build user interfaces using a visual editor; write the backend code in Python. Writer Framework is fast and flexible with a clean, easily-testable syntax. It provides separation of concerns between UI and business logic, enabling more complex applications.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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fate is a modern data client for React. Contribute to nkzw-tech/fate development by creating an account on GitHub.
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Statewavefree▲32Open-source memory runtime for production AI agents.
Aug 2026 · statewave.ai · its alternatives →
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Kshitij and Rahul here. We're building Playground, an open-source sandbox that lets your non-technical teams prototype directly on production codebases, without bugging you (developers) to spin up and maintain another repo. The repo is here: https://github.com/B1u3B01t/design-playground. We've been working together for six years. Last year we built an AI design agent because we thought designers were the biggest bottleneck. But we were wrong. After talking to teams, we realised designers, PMs, founders and even sales people all wanted to quickly change and explore flows…
Jul 2026 · its alternatives →
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base▲13The system of intelligence for lean founding teams
Jul 2026 · withbase.ai · its alternatives →
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I've been experimenting with ROS (Robot Operating System) and the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and noticed a gap: while there were some MCP servers for ROS, most were limited. They either only supported topic communication or had hard-coded topic names, which severely limited their reusability. To address this, I built a general-purpose MCP server for ROS that allows interaction with ROS topics, services, and actions -making it more flexible and extensible than previous approaches. A key design decision was enabling communication between the MCP server and a local ROS machine by simply…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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