Hi guys! My name is Manu,

I'm a new member of the forum, but happy to be here! Hope I'll be be helpful!

My friends (Nicolas Rabault and Simon Baudry) and I are working in Robotics/Electronics for a a long time (Aldebaran, Softbank Robotics, Mediatek, INRIA, Makingbot, Pollen Robotics). We are completely passionate about Embedded Systems!

During these years, we coped with a lot of technical struggles due to the complexity of all the ecosystems and because of a lack of modularity/universality. We got the feeling that we lose a lot of time re-building existing stuff or redeveloping something already existing...

That's why we are currently building a new way of designing embedded systems: Luos! We want to duplicate what microservices and API allow in the software world, in the Electronics world. Luos is like Docker for Electronics. It encapsulates drivers and embedded applications as modules and creates a network between all of them across all boards of a device.

Besides topology detection, hot plug and play, scalability and universality, what makes Luos different is that it creates a network between apps and functionalities, not between boards!

We just released a version of our libraries with examples, templates and documentation. To make this technology evolve and adapt to a bunch of situations, it needs to be used in a lot of projects and devices! We need your help because we need feedback! We would be really happy to discuss with you about our technology and project. If you're interested have a look to our repo on Github.

Thanks for your feedback!
See you,
Manu

Hi Manu, welcome to the forum! 👋

Great to have you here, and thanks for sharing the story behind Luos. Your background with Aldebaran, Softbank Robotics, INRIA, and others really shows in the way you’re approaching embedded system design. The idea of bringing microservices-like modularity into electronics is super interesting — especially the concept of networking functionalities instead of boards. That’s something many of us struggle with in complex systems.

The problems you describe (rebuilding the same blocks, poor modularity, tight coupling between hardware and software) are very real, particularly in robotics and scalable embedded projects. Features like hot plug-and-play, topology detection, and universality sound extremely promising for faster prototyping and long-term maintainability.

On a related note, a lot of us here work with modular power and USB-based subsystems (for example compact USB buck-boost converters used to power distributed boards and modules). A framework like Luos could fit really well with such hardware blocks, especially when designing reusable and scalable embedded architectures.

I’ll definitely take a look at your GitHub repo — happy to test things out and share feedback.
Looking forward to seeing how Luos evolves 🚀Portable USB Buck-Boost Converter

Cheers,
Benjamin