Overall Product Roadmap

The Ultimate Vision - By the end of this roadmap, a robot manufacturer (our OEM partner) should only worry about sensors, motors, and batteries (and the interfacing software layer). A robot buyer (our customer) should only be concerned with use-cases that the robot should be deployed to solve. Every ounce of intelligence, from how the robot navigates space to how it executes a mission or communicates with its user, will be a “Receipe/App/Agent” downloaded from the EMOS Library, backed by a world-class enterprise support infrastructure that makes deploying a new robot as simple as unboxing a phone. Sophisticated robot buyers would be able to create their own “Agents” trivially in an Agent Builder.

EMOS Roadmap Towards the “Android of Robotics”

Phase 1: Hardware Plurality & Development Flywheel (Q1 2026 - Q3 2026)

Goal: Establish EMOS as a universally compatible, friction-free platform by streamlining enterprise deployment, expanding hardware support, and maturing the developer ecosystem.

Deployment & Usability

  • Unified Open Source Release: Launching the centralized emos repository publically as the single point of entry for the ecosystem. This bundles the Core Stack (Kompass + EmbodiedAgents), Utility Software (emos-cli), the Unified Documentation, and the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) plugins into a coherent, open-source distribution.

  • Zero-Touch Enterprise Onboarding: Launching a standardized “Buy & Deploy” workflow. Enterprises buying EMOS-certified robots can activate, configure, and connect to a new robot in minutes via a simple license key on a GUI interface, eliminating setup load that is currently done on a terminal based UI.

Hardware Compatibility

  • Expanded HAL Plugin Library: Add to the growing library of plugins for partner OEMs to showcase quick onboarding of new chassis.

  • Expand Embedded Compute Support: Test and benchmark on more embedded platforms to showcase EMOS performance on high-volume embedded SoCs, demonstrating a reduction in BOM costs for OEMs. AMD Strix Halo, NVIDIA Jetson, Rockchip, RPi5 done. Black Sesame, Chengu Aplux with Qualcom in the pipeline.

Ecosystem & Validation

  • Online Course and Demo Showcase: Release a video course for EMOS recipe devlopment, in collaboration with INRIA, which can accompany the existing documentation and tutorials, showing their deployment and demonstration on real robots.

  • Simulation Ecosystem: Release ready-to-use, optimized virtual environments for the testing and validation of EMOS recipes (in collaboration with partners like HuggingFace and Lightwheel)

  • Automated Recipe CI: Implementation of Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines for automated recipe (App) validation in real environments to ensure behavioral stability. Robotics CI in the real world is hard to scale and requires extensive physical verification in application scenarios which simulation based testing does not cover. This makes it highly non-trivial for general purpose robots. We are starting with devloping pipelines for automated experimentation with data collection and visualization partner Heex Robotics, which will be available inside EMOS and configurable by any recipe developer.

Phase 2: Automation App Economy & Democratization (Q4 2026 & Onwards)

Goal: Establish the first-mover ecosystem. Unlock the robot application economy by further democratizing development, launching a public marketplace, and establishing the security and commercial frameworks required for wider adoption.

Democratization & Standardization

  • GUI-Based Agent Builder: Visual orchestration tool for building recipes (apps/agents) while keeping the python scripting option as an advanced development option. The bulk of effort in recipe devleopment should go towards physical verification and testing, code should be cheap (or better yet free). Customers most likely to deploy general purpose robots are entities that manage large human workforces with activities in the physical space. They aspire to become robot managers along with people managers but are not exactly structured like tech development companies. They require commodification of software to get over the inertia of ‘multi-purpose and multi-application’ robot development.

  • Standardized Deployment Protocol: Establishing a unified industry standard for how robots identify themselves, report health, and receive “Apps,” ensuring a consistent experience across hetrogenous fleets and different OEM brands.

Marketplace Infrastructure

  • Open EMOS Registry (Beta): Launching a public repository for publishing, versioning, and distributing recipe templates and ready-to-deploy recipes, developed by third parties.

  • Monetization Engine: Implementing the financial rails for the ecosystem, enabling licensing management and micro-payments for specialized recipes deployed through the EMOS platform.

Trust, Safety & Compliance

  • Enterprise App Governance: Develop a comprehensive framework for risk management that includes automated security auditing and commercial indemnification structures. This ensures that third-party apps sold on the Marketplace meet enterprise legal standards, de-risking adoption for clients.

  • Safety Evaluation: Add deterministic validation processes for new Apps, verifying adherence to constraints and boundary conditions before deployment.