Copper Runtime & SDK

🤖     Copper is to robots what a game engine is to games - build, run, and replay your entire robot deterministically.

Why Copper

🦀 Rust-first – ergonomic & safe

⚡ Sub-microsecond latency – zero-alloc, data-oriented runtime

⏱️ Deterministic replay – every run, bit-for-bit identical

🧠 Interoperable with ROS2 – bridges via Zenoh opening the path for a progressive migration.

🪶 Runs anywhere – from Linux servers, workstations, SBC to bare-metal MPUs

📦 Built to ship – one stack from simulation to production

Example Applications

Flying	Driving	Swimming	Spacefaring

You don't have a real robot yet? Try it in our toy example right now in a sim environment!

Here is a Copper-based robot in action in a Bevy simulation environment! The realistic sim is created using Bevy (A Rust Game Engine) and Avian3d (Physics Engine in Rust).

On your mac or linux machine (x86-64 or Arm) just run ...

$ cargo install cu-rp-balancebot
$ balancebot-sim

... to try it locally.

The source code for this demo is available in the examples/cu_rp_balancebot directory.

Get Started

• Start a new project from templates: Project Templates
• See a full task graph + runtime walkthrough: Copper Application Overview
• Build and deploy an application: Build and Deploy a Copper Application
• RON configuration reference: Copper RON Configuration Reference

Log Visualization (Rerun)

Copper logs can be visualized with Rerun using an app-specific logviz binary generated by gen_cumsgs!. Enable the logviz feature and run:

# Spawn a viewer and stream the log
cargo run --bin <app>-logviz --features logviz -- logs/my_log.copper --spawn

# Save to an .rrd file
cargo run --bin <app>-logviz --features logviz -- logs/my_log.copper --save out.rrd

Documentation

Link to the full documentation

• Runtime concepts and SDK features: Copper Runtime Overview
• Task lifecycle: Task Lifecycle
• Modular configuration: Modular Configuration
• Task automation: Task Automation with just
• Supported platforms: Supported Platforms
• Bare-metal development: Baremetal Development
• Available components: Available Components
• FAQ: FAQ
• Release notes: Copper Release Notes
• Roadmap: Roadmap

Project

Note

We are looking for contributors to help us build the best robotics framework possible. If you are interested, please join us on Discord or open an issue.