Sources & licensing
This page explains where every pixel on the site comes from. We deliberately use no third-party photography, product shots or logos, to stay clear of licensing risk.
Images: all drawn in-house as SVG
Every graphic on this site is hand-written SVG produced for this project — no bitmaps, no screenshots, no vendor marketing imagery. Current inventory:
| Graphic | Where | Description | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Humanoid cross-section with layer highlight | home | line drawing explaining the body / cerebellum / brain split | Apache-2.0 |
| Three time scales (μs / ms / 10 ms) | home hero | illustrative diagram of the three layers' time budgets | Apache-2.0 |
| Architecture overview (3 hardware + 4 software layers) | architecture | redrawn for the web from the released blueprint | Apache-2.0 |
| favicon and brand blocks | site-wide | geometric shapes | Apache-2.0 |
The original deck contains on-site photographs and vendor-supplied figures (joint-motor diagrams, board photos, robot running shots). Copyright for those belongs to the respective vendors and communities, so we do not reuse them here and substitute self-drawn illustrations.
Fonts: system stack only
The site loads no web fonts at all (no Google Fonts, no self-hosted woff), so no font licence is involved:
-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue",
"PingFang SC", "Hiragino Sans GB", "Microsoft YaHei",
"Source Han Sans SC", "Noto Sans CJK SC", sans-serif
ui-monospace, SFMono-Regular, Menlo, Consolas, "Liberation Mono", monospace
Rendering depends on the visitor's own operating system fonts: nothing is distributed, and no font licence fees arise.
Trademarks
Names and part numbers appearing on this site — RISC-V, openKylin, OpenLoong, Milk-V, UltraRISC, SpacemiT, Zhihe Computing, Axera, Rockchip, HPMicro, GigaDevice, WCH, Espressif, RT-Thread, FlagOS, llama.cpp, TileLang, ROS 2 and others — are trademarks or product names of their respective owners, used only for factual reference and description. No logos or visual identities are used.
Data provenance
Every number on the site carries a provenance tag, in four classes:
| Tag | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| vendor data / vendor docs | from public vendor material, not independently re-measured here | K3 60 TOPS (INT4 sparse peak), HPM6E8Y 1 μs current loop |
| our measurement | measured by Kubuds on a K3 board (Bianbu 4.0.7 / kernel 6.18.3 / 2026-10-21), conditions stated | 1B VLM 24.09 t/s, 24B MoE 12.00 t/s, IME2 970 / 5632 GMAC/s |
| community & ecosystem | from open community progress and announcements | openKylin ROS SIG 228/228 packages in the repository, working group formed 2026-06-25 |
| planned | internal working-group plans, subject to community decisions | ROS SIG items after 2026-12, the five working-group steps |
Main public sources by category:
- RISC-V industry: riscv.org, NVIDIA blog (2024 RISC-V core shipments), Meta MTIA blog, Google Coral NPU developer blog, RISC-V Summit China 2025 (Krste Asanovic extension roadmap)
- Silicon and boards: SpacemiT (spacemit.com), Zhihe Computing (developer.zhcomputing.com), Milk-V (milkv.io), UltraRISC, Axera (axera-tech.com), Rockchip (rock-chips.com), HPMicro (hpmicro.com), GigaDevice (gigadevice.com), WCH (wch.cn), Espressif (espressif.com), Zhongke Benyuan
- Community and ecosystem: openKylin (including ROS SIG and embodied-AI working group announcements), OpenLoong project pages, AGIROS community, BAAI FlagOS, llama.cpp / TileLang / ncnn upstream repositories, ROS 2 documentation
- Models: BAAI RoboBrain 2.0, NVIDIA GR00T, Physical Intelligence π0.5, Qwen-VL and other public model pages
The full source list (with item numbers, collection dates and open items) is maintained with the release material in the repository's
whitepapers/directory and thecite.txtof the release package.
Content licence
- Site text and in-house diagrams: Apache-2.0 (see the repository
LICENSE). - Third-party data and names quoted here remain the property of their sources; they are used for factual reference only, with provenance class and source category stated.
- If you are a rights holder and consider a citation inappropriate, email wuwei@rv2036.org and we will act immediately.
Policy for future third-party assets
Our internal rule is “register first, publish second”:
- Record the original URL + licence (SPDX identifier) + retrieval date and list it on this page;
- Prefer CC0 / CC-BY / clearly open-licensed assets, with attribution as required;
- Vendor product images and on-site photographs need written permission (email is enough); otherwise use a self-drawn illustration;
- Never publish images of unknown origin, never use vendor logos as decoration, never embed web fonts.