Inria Confirms Full Support for the Maestro Consortium, Paving the Way for an Official Launch with Founding Industrial and Academic Partners

Following a unanimous Go decision by Inria’s Science and Innovation leadership, Inria has confirmed its full institutional support for the upcoming official creation of the Maestro Consortium — a major milestone for the open-source robotics community in Europe.

The decision, reached at an internal review meeting on 20 March 2026, endorses the establishment of a dedicated consortium structure around the Maestro open-source robotics software stack: Pinocchio (rigid-body dynamics), COAL (collision detection), Aligator (optimal control), ProxSuite (optimisation), and Simple (differentiable simulation). Together, these libraries form one of the most complete and widely adopted open-source stacks for robotics simulation and control, already deployed in production by organisations ranging from Airbus to the latest generation of humanoid robotics companies.

The consortium will bring together founding industrial and academic partners around a shared ambition: sustaining and accelerating the development of the Maestro stack as critical, sovereign European infrastructure for robotics simulation and control. Membership will be structured across three tiers — Bronze, Silver, and Gold — funding the software engineering efforts that ensure the stack’s long-term reliability, packaging, and industrial readiness.

An official kick-off event with founding industrial and academic members is planned for the coming months. The event will mark the formal launch of the consortium and the beginning of a structured collaboration between European research and industry around open robotics software.

Stay tuned for the announcement of the official kick-off date and founding members.