SUSE Robotics
a project by baldarn
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SUSE Robotics

  • Billions of humanoid robots could be operating across the world by 2040, doing work well beyond the scope of today’s factory robots.
  • The robots look set to revolutionize sectors as varied as healthcare, public space maintenance, retail service and personal assistance.
  • Companies and individuals alike can benefit from humanoid robots, but they will require clear guardrails to embrace this transformation.

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Description

A strategic collaboration between SUSE and an hardware partner to create an enterprise-grade, open-source robotic platform. The project combines SUSE’s expertise in Linux, containerization, and lifecycle management with an hardware partner’ advanced robotics, AI, and sensor technologies.

The result: a modular, secure, and scalable foundation for industrial, healthcare, and service robots.

Goals

  • Develop a certified robotic stack integrating ROS 2, K3s, and SUSE Linux Enterprise for real-world deployment.
  • Establish an enterprise certification framework for robotics software and hardware compliance.
  • Launch joint go-to-market pilots showcasing reliable, maintainable, and AI-ready robotic solutions.

Resources

  • SUSE: Linux infrastructure, security/lifecycle tooling, cloud-edge integration, QA and certification pipeline.
  • Shared: R&D engineering team, dedicated test environments, co-marketing assets, and strategic funding for early pilots.

Hackweek STEP

Build the First “SUSE-Enabled Robotics Stack” Prototype

Create a minimal, end-to-end prototype that demonstrates a robot running on SUSE Linux + K3s + ROS 2, packaged as a reproducible developer environment for future expansion.

Scope

  • Run ROS 2 (Humble/Iron) on openSUSE or SLE Micro.
  • Deploy ROS 2 nodes as containers orchestrated by K3s.
  • Provide one hardware-agnostic demo (e.g., teleop + sensor simulation).
  • Package everything into a single Git repository with scripts, manifests, and documentation.

Deliverables

  1. SUSE Robotics Base Image
    • OCI image with ROS 2 + dependencies built and tested on SUSE.
  2. K3s-based Deployment Template
    • Helm charts or YAML to run ROS 2 nodes inside K3s pods.
  3. Demo Application
    • Simple robot simulation (Gazebo or Ignition) + teleoperation + sensor data flow.
  4. Developer Onboarding Guide
    • How to build, deploy, and run the robot stack on SUSE in under 10 minutes.

Outcome

A functional and shareable foundation that proves SUSE can power a full robotic pipeline, enabling follow-up work with an hardware partner and other partners.

Resources

Drive resources

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/folders/12TGs-zZ2tVs2KB3CHSOdNAciYDBHTOs1

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    • gfilippetti
      24 days ago by gfilippetti | Reply

      Documentation for the latest version https://docs.ros.org/en/kilted/Installation/RHEL-Install-RPMs.html

    • gfilippetti
      24 days ago by gfilippetti | Reply

      Suggestion: Using MicroOS as a base https://microos.opensuse.org/

    • bbulmer14
      24 days ago by bbulmer14 | Reply

      To run ROS2 should I first download openSUSE Leap Micro 6.2 (https://get.opensuse.org/leapmicro/6.2/ ) Will this interfere with my current OS ?

    • lkocman
      17 days ago by lkocman | Reply

      Can you please write a summary for what happened during Hackweek 25? Thank you!

      • horon
        16 days ago by horon | Reply

        see below comments

    • baldarn
      16 days ago by baldarn | Reply

      I have a drive where I tracked lot of things

      https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/folders/12TGs-zZ2tVs2KB3CHSOdNAciYDBHTOs1

    • baldarn
      16 days ago by baldarn | Reply

      this is the diary I created https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T_WkY79iLt0R5xkuJtzRJzcoQ3yj-3jcI3R8sCt-gmY/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.fwti4ptn5234

    • horon
      16 days ago by horon | Reply

      Personally, I have had lots of fun with this project, I have been focusing myself on building ROS2 platform (a set of python libraries with it's own build framework) on top of Tumbleweed, finding issues in Tumbleweed as well as ROS2 (kilted):

      • https://build.opensuse.org/requests/1320985
      • https://build.opensuse.org/requests/1320986
      • https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1254494
      • https://github.com/ros2/rviz/issues/1637

      The ROS2 kilted project, pending resolving above issues, mostly builds on kilted, then time run out for me, but I want to check on other team members work running the Gazebo simulator and preparing some demo (see video in the google docs posted above - https://docs.google.com/videos/d/1sBIZuiXdVdLjPYR4uf3H9p0be7ofMKQ7-EmClBD-CKs/edit?scene=id.p#scene=id.p).

      There is also some nice annotations (preparing a business case) on how this project could become interesting from business side and bringing opensuse in the robotics world. (see https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i9iP6RvASEpUeuHR1oAB6PN3bPvW6Rg8t6a6qIzkY/edit?tab=t.0)

      Feel free to check (maybe not fully finalized) presentation at https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mD3Of86nkiXFULkiSr2uZcUIppCTQA-ooldPA1K6yAY/edit?slide=id.g3185dd263cf0120#slide=id.g3185dd263cf0120

      I definitely plan to continue working on this project if time allows.

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