Authored robot model
Robot manifests, structure files, and component definitions remain the source of truth.
Pre-alpha / active rewrite
Manifest-driven robotics infrastructure for robots that have to leave simulation.
PHOXAL is a Rust-first robotics suite for authored robot and component models, typed Zenoh communication, Webots simulation, isolated runtime and driver processes, deployment tooling, and operator-facing observability.
It is pre-alpha. APIs, catalogs, and runtime contracts are expected to break loudly while the framework converges.
Architecture
A coherent path from model to robot.
The suite is opinionated by design. It avoids hidden runtime discovery and favors explicit contracts the CLI can validate before launch.
Generated runtime graph
The CLI resolves artifacts, validates compatibility, and materializes the launch plan.
Typed Zenoh contracts
Zenoh is the transport, but every topic, query, and command is bound to a Rust contract.
Isolated participants
Platform services, hardware drivers, user services, and tools run as separate processes.
Webots simulation
Simulation uses framework-owned contracts and logical time instead of a second mental model.
Operator observability
Telemetry, logs, visualization, and diagnostics are treated as part of the runtime surface.
Operational target
The first customer is the robot we are building.
PHOXAL is general enough for mobile robots, but its forcing function is sidewalk and street-maintenance autonomy: durable systems that can be modeled, validated, deployed, observed, and fixed without hidden state.
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Sidewalk and street-maintenance robots
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Simulation-to-hardware parity
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Fleet and operator surfaces without custom glue
Status
Pre-alpha. Expect loud breaks.
The architecture is in active rewrite and the public repositories are moving quickly. PHOXAL is ready to inspect, discuss, and use as a design direction; it is not yet a stable dependency. Breaking API, catalog, and runtime changes are intentional and should fail loudly instead of silently drifting.