MOV.AI Releases Flow, a Source-available Development Environment that Simplifies ROS Robot Development

MOV.AI, developer of the Robotics Engine Platform announced the beta release of Flow, a visual Integrated Development Environment (IDE) designed especially for ROS-based robot software.

This open IDE speeds up and streamlines robot software development with a visual representation of ROS projects that makes it easy to understand ROS projects and allows simple and intuitive development. MOV.AI Flow makes it easier to import assets, reduces configuration and integration work, speeds up debugging, and makes it easy to port projects across environments, and share with the community.

“Robotics is an exciting field that ignites the imagination of millions, but robot development is complex, and there are very few development tools that simplify it. ROS is a great development foundation that is constantly evolving, but it was built for expert robotics researchers,” says Limor Schweitzer, founder of MOV.AI and a long-time robot enthusiast. “We built a platform that bridges the gap between human imagination and its realization. MOV.AI Flow helps non-experts visualize the numerous different elements that make up a robot and the logic of how to build robot behavior.

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“We are sharing it with the ROS community so that non-experts can use it effectively from day one to realize their ideas. Our vision is that high school students, robot enthusiasts in their garage, and experts will all be able to improve our lives with the help of robots.”

“MOV.AI Flow was initially developed by the MOV.AI team as a byproduct of working with ROS to develop robots and robot software. As they worked on their projects, they also built tools to make their lives easier,” said Motti Kushnir, MOV.AI CEO. “We decided not to leave it at that, but to pay it forward to the larger robotics community. We took the separate, ad hoc tools and further developed them into a full-blown visual IDE that can be used by almost anyone to develop a robot. That is what we are releasing today in the form of a source available tool.”

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