ArcForge is the operational layer above ROS 2 — one shell to discover, model, rehearse, deploy, operate, replay, and improve autonomous systems. Built for the people who field them, not the people who write the middleware.
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ROS 2 is the most powerful robotics middleware in the world. It is also the reason fielding an autonomous system still takes a robotics PhD.
ArcForge sits on top of it — the operating layer that turns middleware into an operational product. Operators get a shell they can actually drive. The complexity doesn't disappear; it just stops being their problem.
Nobody should need a PhD in robotics to deploy an autonomous system. That's the entire point.
Plug in hardware ArcForge has never seen. It detects the stack and has it running in minutes — no hand-wiring, no manifest archaeology.
Describe the vehicle; get flashable, hardware-aware firmware. The build step stops being a separate discipline.
Full simulation and telemetry replay. Rehearse missions and review real runs without spending airframes to learn.
Air and ground in a single operational surface. The same seven verbs drive every domain.
ArcForge's advanced autonomy, perception, and assurance modules are developed under U.S. export-control compliance. They are not part of the public release — and are made available to qualified partners under NDA.
Primes, defense-focused funds, and government customers can request a gated capability briefing and statement — the full picture, under NDA, with US-person verification.