EMOS — The Embodied Operating System¶

EMOS – The Embodied Operating System¶

The open-source unified orchestration layer for Physical AI.

EMOS transforms robots into Physical AI Agents. It provides a hardware-agnostic runtime that lets robots see, think, move, and adapt – all orchestrated from pure Python scripts called Recipes.

Write a Recipe once, deploy it on any robot – from wheeled AMRs to humanoids – without rewriting code.

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What You Can Build¶

Intelligent Agents

Wire together vision, language, speech, and memory components into agentic workflows. Route queries by intent, answer questions about the environment, or build a semantic map – all from a single Python script.

See cognition recipes

Autonomous Navigation

GPU-accelerated planning and control for real-world mobility. Point-to-point navigation, path recording, and vision-based target following – across differential drive, Ackermann, and omnidirectional platforms.

See navigation recipes

Runtime Adaptivity

Event-driven architecture lets agents reconfigure themselves at runtime. Hot-swap ML models on network failure, switch navigation algorithms when stuck, trigger recovery maneuvers from sensor events, or compose complex behaviors with logic gates.

See adaptivity recipes

Planning & Manipulation

Use VLMs for high-level task decomposition and VLAs for end-to-end manipulation. Closed-loop control where a VLM referee stops actions on visual task completion.

See manipulation recipes

What’s Inside¶

EMOS is built on three open-source components:

Component	Role
EmbodiedAgents	Intelligence layer – agentic graphs of ML models with semantic memory and event-driven reconfiguration
Kompass	Navigation layer – GPU-powered planning and control for real-world mobility
Sugarcoat	Architecture layer – event-driven system primitives and imperative launch API