Lightberry SDK is the developer toolkit from San Francisco-based Lightberry for building extensions for the Lumi social robot, which runs on Lightberry OS. An extension is a program that runs on the robot's onboard computer and communicates with the Lightberry software through shared memory.
The SDK exposes interfaces for Python (the lightberry_extensions_sdk package) and Rust (the lightberry_extension_client package). Other languages can be used by binding to the Rust SDK or communicating through iceoryx2 directly. Extensions can subscribe to Lumi data streams, expose tools, and provide information to the cloud agent, influencing its decision-making and planning.
Extensions run as processes on the robot's onboard computer; the documentation also allows running them in containers for convenience. Typical uses include integrating external systems, coordinating new hardware, and adding new behaviors and tools for the planning agent.
An SDK (Software Development Kit) is a curated set of libraries, interfaces, tools, sample code, and documentation intended for building applications and integrating with a specific hardware device, platform, or service. In robotics, an SDK typically exposes device control, telemetry, sensor access, configuration, and execution functions, significantly reducing the time-to-first-integration for developers targeting a specific robot or platform.
A Developer Tool is software designed to support the development workflow, including configuration, debugging, testing, monitoring, validation, and integration of robotic and embedded systems. Examples include IDE plugins, visual debuggers, log analysers, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test harnesses, and code-generation utilities specific to robotics platforms.
Device Integration denotes the role of software responsible for communication, configuration, initialization and handling of specific devices, sensors, controllers or hardware components within a robotic system.
Software ecosystem of Lightberry's Lumi social robot — the Lightberry OS operating system and the Lightberry SDK for building extensions.
Extensions run on Lumi's onboard computer; 64 GiB unified memory, 500 GiB storage.
