Building Resilient Robotics Applications with Beam Bots in Elixir

Beam Bots (BB) is a new framework for building fault-tolerant robotics applications using Elixir programming language. It leverages Elixir's capabilities, such as fault tolerance, concurrency, and real-time performance, to mirror the architecture of ROS2, providing developers with methods for pubsub, services, actions, and more. The framework features a Spark DSL for defining robot structures declaratively, manages supervision based on robot topology, and incorporates physical unit handling and forward kinematics. Currently, in the early stages of development, the framework compiles, tests pass, and the DSL is operational, although it has not yet controlled physical robots. Updates on the framework’s progress suggest active development, user feedback, and ongoing feature enhancements, aiming to eventually integrate complex decision-making capabilities for robots.