Basis Robotics
US robotics software company in Somerville, MA developing an open-source pub-sub framework for deterministic testing and production robotics deployment.
Basis Robotics is a software company headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts, USA, focused on building a production-ready robotics development framework. The company is a resident startup at MassRobotics, the Boston-area robotics innovation hub.
The company's core product, simply named Basis, is an open-source robotics development framework built on a publish-subscribe (pub-sub) architecture. Its primary design goal is to enable deterministic replay testing—a capability the company identifies as a key gap in existing robotics frameworks including ROS (Robot Operating System). In conventional frameworks, developers must manually manage publishers, subscribers, and message routing. Basis abstracts this layer by introducing a model of Inputs + Conditions (synchronizer) → Handler (developer code) → Outputs, letting the framework automatically handle all underlying message plumbing.
The determinism focus is central to Basis's value proposition: by enabling reliable replay of recorded robot runtime data in a test environment, engineers can reproduce bugs and validate fixes without requiring a physical robot to be present. This reduces development cycles and improves confidence before production deployment.
Basis is available as open-source software on GitHub under the basis-robotics organization. The framework is free for individual developers, students, and for evaluation purposes. Commercial production use requires a licensing agreement with the company. As of the time of writing, the software is described as alpha-stage and may not yet be suitable for all production environments.
The company is small, with an estimated team size of under 20 people. Basis Robotics targets robotics companies that need a reliable middleware layer for developing autonomous systems and want to move faster from prototype to production.
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Open-source pub-sub robotics framework enabling deterministic replay testing for production robot development.
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