Membership
Kept reliable for the long term, steered by the companies that use it.
The MAESTRO software is open source and free to use. Members fund the team that keeps it reliable, and decide together what it builds next.
From €5,000 per year, excl. VAT
6
open-source libraries
BSD
licence, free for everyone
2
founding institutes, Inria and CNRS
5
companies committed to join
The software
Six libraries cover the core of robot motion, from dynamics to simulation. All are released under the BSD licence: anyone can use, modify and ship them, including in commercial products.
Rigid-body dynamics and their derivatives
Fast collision detection
Optimal control with contacts
Numerical optimisation
Differentiable simulation
NumPy and Eigen bindings for Python
Pinocchio and the other libraries of the stack run in research labs and in companies building humanoids, legged robots and manipulators.
Why join
Large group or small team, membership gives you a say in the software you build on.
Keep the libraries inside your products dependable: regular tested releases, packages for new platforms, and a direct channel to report the issues that block you.
Get early access to upcoming releases, and a direct line to the research teams behind the stack and to the engineers and students they train.
Sit at the same table as major industrial groups and the research teams, make your needs heard, and show your customers and investors that you build on a maintained stack.
How it works
Keeping a motion stack reliable takes a dedicated team: tests, releases, packaging, support for new platforms. Few companies can fund that team on their own. MAESTRO shares it across its members.
Inria and CNRS
Bring the software, the research behind it and dedicated engineers
Members
Expand the engineering effort through an annual fee
Shared
Engineering team
Tests, long-term-support releases, packaging, support for new platforms
For everyone
Open-source stack
Released openly, for research and industry
Even the Gold level costs less than one full-time engineer.
Membership levels
Start at any level and move up later. Every member at a given level gets the same terms, whatever its size.
Bronze
€5,000per year, excl. VAT
For startups and small teams building on the stack.
Silver
€15,000per year, excl. VAT
For companies that want a real say in technical choices.
Gold
€45,000per year, excl. VAT
For companies whose products depend on the stack.
Members
Five companies from robotics, automotive, aerospace, defence and digital services have committed to join MAESTRO, alongside its founders.
Founders
Industry members
Governance
MAESTRO is steered by two committees in which industry and research share the decisions.
Sets the strategy and the budget, and approves the roadmap each year.
Builds the technical roadmap and ranks development requests.
Coordinates the engineering work day to day and reports to both committees.
Votes on the Scientific and Technical Committee
The members' half is shared equally among Silver and Gold members. No single company can take control of the project.
Members can
Members cannot
How to join
01
A short call to understand your needs and find the right level.
02
We send you the membership agreement and the accession form, signed with Inria as coordinator of the consortium.
03
Your membership starts once the form is signed and the fee paid.
Take a seat at the table.
Membership runs by calendar year and renews automatically on 1 January. If you join in the second half of the year, your first fee is reduced. Multi-year commitments are also possible.
contact-maestro@inria.fr
