This paper introduces PyRobot, an open-source robotics framework for research and benchmarking. PyRobot is a light-weight, high-level interface on top of ROS that provides a consistent set of hardware independent mid-level APIs to control different robots. PyRobot abstracts away details about low-level controllers and inter-process communication, and allows non-robotics researchers (ML, CV researchers) to focus on building high-level AI applications. PyRobot aims to provide a research ecosystem with convenient access to robotics datasets, algorithm implementations and models that can be used to quickly create a state-of-the-art baseline. We believe PyRobot, when paired up with low-cost robot platforms such as LoCoBot, will reduce the entry barrier into robotics, and democratize robotics. PyRobot is open-source, and can be accessed via https://pyrobot.org.
@article{arxiv.1906.08236,
title = {PyRobot: An Open-source Robotics Framework for Research and Benchmarking},
author = {Adithyavairavan Murali and Tao Chen and Kalyan Vasudev Alwala and Dhiraj Gandhi and Lerrel Pinto and Saurabh Gupta and Abhinav Gupta},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.08236},
year = {2019}
}