Ecosystem & roadmap

Organisation: the openKylin Embodied Intelligence Working Group

Formed on 2026-06-25 at the OpenAtom open-source ecosystem conference, it upgrades project-level collaboration into a long-term mechanism: writing “pluggable” down as specifications, tests and reference hardware.

Members include Shanghai Kubuds Technology, UltraRISC, OpenLoong, Haihe Laboratory, KylinSoft, the National University of Defense Technology and China Greatwall — covering silicon, operating systems, robot platforms and universities.

Milestones: from joint enablement to real hardware

• 2026-01-21
  Joint enablement plan launched — openKylin + RISC-V + ROS as a shared technical foundation.
• 2026-05-15
  Real hardware adaptation succeeded — stable operation, motion control and basic interaction demonstrated.
• 2026-06-25
  Working group formally established — all four roles at the same table.
• 2026-07
  Joined the AGIROS ecosystem — the ROS SIG keeps supplying packages.
• 2026-10-18
  RISC-V Summit China — a small RISC-V biped running openKylin was demonstrated.

Robot platforms: OpenLoong

OpenLoong is incubated by the OpenAtom Foundation and operated by Humanoid Robot (Shanghai) Co. It provides a complete open hardware family from full-size to teaching platforms:

Roadmap 1: openKylin ROS SIG

From “supplying packages” to “a robot reference system”. The first five items have already happened; the last two are planned.

• 2024-07
  ROS SIG founded
• 2025-11
  Multi-architecture validation completed; the robotics plan started in 2026-01.
• 2026-02
  100+ ROS packages packaged
• 2026-08
  Jazzy ros-base: 228 packages passed three local gates (bootstrap build, rebuild with tests, install smoke test on a clean environment) and were pushed to OKBS for four-architecture builds.
• 2026-10
  ros-base 228/228 across four architectures (including riscv64) entered the 2.0 proposed repository and installs with apt; jazzy desktop reached 59 packages ready; 3.0 Lyrical ros-base passed validation with 230 packages and a fully green CI.
• 2026-12 planned
  ros-base moves to the stable repository with the 2.0 release cadence; desktop is added incrementally (resolving CI and system-package dependencies); 3.0 ros-base finishes four-architecture builds.
• 2027 planned
  Nav2 / MoveIt packaged; RISC-V robot reference image; multi-platform regression on real hardware; openKylin robot edition released.

Roadmap 2: the embodied intelligence working group

Turning “pluggable everywhere” into specifications, tests and reference hardware. All five steps are planned — partners are welcome to claim one.

• 2026-Q4 planned
  Open solution v0 — interface lists for the three layers, first compatibility matrix, K3 / Titan reference software stack.
• 2026-12 planned
  Reference image v1 — dual-domain openKylin + ROS 2 + RT-Thread image, reproducible on K3 / A210 / Titan.
• 2027-Q1 planned
  Compatibility test suite — interface specs and conformance tests for the five pluggable points, CI regression on real hardware.
• 2027-Q2 planned
  Second robot platform — Qinglong Mini / NanoLoong teaching platform plus a university course kit.
• 2027-H2 planned
  Scenario pilots and standardisation — industrial / service reference robots; interface specs into community standards; compatibility matrix v2.

Provenance note: items tagged “planned” are internal working-group plans subject to community decisions, not public commitments. Sources for the factual items are listed on the sources & licensing page.

How the ecosystem lands in engineering terms

• Software: openKylin provides the RISC-V system and ROS package supply, the ROS SIG owns packaging and quality gates, and the working group owns the three-layer interfaces and the compatibility matrix.
• Hardware: OpenLoong provides full robots and open hardware so the interface list has real joints, buses and sensors to connect to.
• Silicon: SpacemiT, UltraRISC and Milk-V provide reference platforms so every layer has reproducible hardware underneath.
• Verification: Kubuds assembles the layers, runs end-to-end measurements and writes the results into the provenance notes on these pages.