Create ROS App

Create ROS App is a tool for making ROS setup less painful.

Working with JX, a roboticist at NTU in Singapore, we set out to solve the problem of robotics setup.

From our surveys of the robotics community, setup times for a ROS project often exceeded 2 hours. This echoes the early days of Webpack and web javascript frameworks like React and Angular.

One salvation from setup challenges for web developers was Create-React-App, and also more modern tools like the Vercel CLI. These tools make it easy for even a complete novice to deploy a web app.

To build a tool with a similar function for Robotics, we set out to create an ultra-simple CLI based setup tool which abstracts away the ROS setup process from users, no matter their underlying OS or system configuration.

Learn more at the

CRP website

Future Work

Teaming up with JingXiang Mo of NTU and Jack Parmer, of Flojoy and Plotly, we are building more tools for robot developers. The useful test is simple: fewer hours spent fighting setup, more hours spent testing the robot.