KINESIS is NYU Abu Dhabi's advanced robotics core facility, supporting research in robotics, sensing, autonomy, and AI.
Using equipment or preparing for training? Start with the KINESIS public documentation for the equipment catalogue, operating context, and publicly available safety information.
Developing software? Choose the equipment-specific development repository below.
| Equipment | Start here | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Spot and Spot Arm | spot-sdk |
Boston Dynamics SDK fork for developing Spot applications and payloads. |
| Hovermap ST | hovermap-st |
KINESIS onboarding workspace for ROS 1 and ROS 2 development. |
| RB-CAR | rb-car |
KINESIS onboarding workspace for ROS 1 Noetic development. |
| Force Dimension lambda.7 | lambda-07 |
KINESIS onboarding workspace for ROS 2 development. |
These are dependencies, upstream forks, or lower-level packages. Unless you need to modify one directly, begin with the equipment workspace above.
| Equipment | Supporting repositories |
|---|---|
| Hovermap ST | hovermap_ros_api |
| RB-CAR | rbcar_common · rbcar_sim · robotnik_msgs · robotnik_sensors |
| Force Dimension lambda.7 | forcedimension_ros2 · fd_sdk_vendor |
The rtd-kinesis repository supports the public
documentation site; use the rendered documentation for
browsing.