OLO Documentation

OLO connects ROS 2 robots to a browser-based development experience and provides typed Python and TypeScript libraries for robot programs. This site is the canonical guide to the OLO Platform, the robot-side Appliance, and the SDK.

Open-source notices list JavaScript dependencies by project, including OLO Appliance, with downloadable reports and original license texts. This public platform page does not replace complete Appliance image or standalone SDK release notices.

Start here

• Getting Started
  • Portal and managed simulation
  • Physical robot or local ROS 2 environment
  • SDK connection check
  • Before motion
• OLO Platform
  • Two channels
  • Platform authentication
  • How scripts run
• OLO Appliance
  • Installation choices
  • Updating the Appliance
  • Registration and identity
  • ROS 2 configuration
  • SDK
  • Platform management is separate
• ROS 2 Concepts for OLO
  • Nodes, topics, services, and actions
  • Domains and discovery
  • Frames and transforms
  • MoveIt and Nav2
  • Simulation time
• Custom World ZIP Uploads
  • ZIP layout requirements
  • Adding a thumbnail
  • Model references

SDK

• Quickstart
  • SDK modules
  • Client
  • Robot namespaces
  • Example usage
• Robot Namespaces
  • Capability handles
  • Default namespace resolution
  • Explicit namespace selection
  • Service-specific handles
  • Core topic and node names
  • Robot TF frames
  • Low-level calls
  • Listing namespaces
• API Reference
  • Client
  • Core
  • Spatial
  • Kinematics
  • Locomotion
  • Navigation
  • Vision
  • AI
  • Local archive
  • Platform
  • Errors
  • TypeScript API

Examples

• Core
  • Topic listing and robot namespaces
  • Publishing messages
  • Subscribing to messages
  • Service discovery and invocation
• Spatial
  • Individual transform lookup
  • Transform tree inspection
  • Spatial Type Construction
  • Composition and Inverses
• Kinematics
  • Robot model, joints, and pose
  • Move to joint targets
  • Move to end-effector poses
  • Move along linear paths
  • Trajectory speed scaling
  • Plan with multiple groups
  • Gripper operations
• Locomotion
  • Local locomotion
  • Velocity streaming
• Navigation
  • Simple navigation
  • Localization with a saved map
  • Inspect the map and navigate to a reachable goal
• Vision
  • Depth camera helpers
  • Point tracking pick loop
  • Fiducial tag detection
  • Follow a fiducial tag
  • Pick the fiducial cube
  • Hand-eye calibration
• AI
  • Object detection
  • Streaming RGB detection
  • Streaming RGB-D detection
• Archive
  • Local image and video archive
  • Local rosbag recording
  • Cloud archive catalog