diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index db15d186..520a54ec 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -55,9 +55,10 @@ An extremely fast and simple **dataflow oriented robotic** framework to manage y
2025
-- \[2025/03\] Add support for Meta SAM2, Kokoro(TTS), Improved Qwen2.5 Performance using `llama.cpp`.
-- \[2025/02\] Add support for Qwen2.5(LLM), Qwen2.5-VL(VLM), outetts(TTS)
-
+- \[2025/03/05\] dora-rs has been accepted to [**GSoC 2025 🎉**](https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2025/organizations/dora-rs-tb), with the following [**idea list**](https://github.com/dora-rs/dora/wiki/GSoC_2025).
+- \[2025/03/04\] Add support for Zenoh for distributed dataflow.
+- \[2025/03/04\] Add support for Meta SAM2, Kokoro(TTS), Improved Qwen2.5 Performance using `llama.cpp`.
+- \[2025/02/25\] Add support for Qwen2.5(LLM), Qwen2.5-VL(VLM), outetts(TTS)
## Highlights
@@ -72,16 +73,146 @@ An extremely fast and simple **dataflow oriented robotic** framework to manage y
- 🤖 Simplifies building robotic applications by integrating hardware, algorithms, and AI models to facilitate seamless communication.
- ⚙️ Eases integration of hardware and software by supporting Python, C, C++, and ROS2, while ensuring low-latency communication with zero-copy Arrow messages.
-## Installation
+## Packaged Nodes
-Install dora with our standalone installers, or from [crates.io](https://crates.io/crates/dora-cli):
+### Camera
+
+| Title | Description | Shields |
+| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| [PyOrbbeckSDK](https://github.com/dora-rs/dora/blob/main/node-hub/dora-pyorbbecksdk) | Image and depth from Orbbeck Camera |    |
+| [PyRealsense](https://github.com/dora-rs/dora/blob/main/node-hub/dora-pyrealsense) | Image and depth from Realsense |    |
+| [Video Capture](https://github.com/dora-rs/dora/blob/main/node-hub/opencv-video-capture) | Image stream from Camera |    |
+
+### Peripheral
+
+| Title | Description | Shields |
+| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| [Keyboard](https://github.com/dora-rs/dora/blob/main/node-hub/dora-keyboard) | Keyboard char listener |    |
+| [Microphone](https://github.com/dora-rs/dora/blob/main/node-hub/dora-microphone) | Audio from microphone |    |
+| [PyAudio(Speaker)](https://github.com/dora-rs/dora/blob/main/node-hub/dora-pyaudio) | Output audio from speaker |    |
+
+### Actuator
+
+| Title | Description | Shields |
+| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------- | ------- |
+| [Feetech](https://github.com/dora-rs/dora-lerobot/blob/main/node-hub/feetech-client) | Feetech Client | |
+| [Dynamixel](https://github.com/dora-rs/dora-lerobot/blob/main/node-hub/dynamixel-client) | Dynamixel Client | |
+
+### Chassis
+
+| Title | Description | Shields |
+| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| [Agilex - UGV](https://github.com/dora-rs/dora/blob/main/node-hub/dora-ugv) | Robomaster Client |    |
+| [DJI - Robomaster S1](https://huggingface.co/datasets/dora-rs/dora-robomaster) | Robomaster Client | |
+| [Dora Kit Car](https://github.com/dora-rs/dora/blob/main/node-hub/dora-kit-car) | Open Source Chassis |    |
+
+### Arm
+
+| Title | Description | Shields |
+| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| [Alex Koch - Low Cost Robot](https://github.com/dora-rs/dora-lerobot/blob/main/robots/alexk-lcr) | Alex Koch - Low Cost Robot Client | |
+| [Lebai - LM3](https://github.com/dora-rs/dora-lerobot/blob/main/node-hub/lebai-client) | Lebai client | |
+| [Agilex - Piper](https://github.com/dora-rs/dora/blob/main/node-hub/dora-piper) | Agilex arm client |    |
+
+### Robot
+
+| Title | Description | Shields |
+| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------- | ------- |
+| [Pollen - Reachy 1](https://github.com/dora-rs/dora-lerobot/blob/main/node-hub/dora-reachy1) | Reachy 1 Client | |
+| [Pollen - Reachy 2](https://github.com/dora-rs/dora-lerobot/blob/main/robots/reachy) | Reachy 2 client | |
+| [Trossen - Aloha](https://github.com/dora-rs/dora-lerobot/blob/main/robots/aloha) | Aloha client | |
+
+### Voice Activity Detection
+
+| Title | Description | Shields |
+| ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| [Silero VAD](https://github.com/dora-rs/dora/blob/main/node-hub/dora-vad) | Silero Voice activity detection |    |
+
+### Speech to Text
+
+| Title | Description | Shields |
+| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| [Whisper](https://github.com/dora-rs/dora/blob/main/node-hub/dora-distil-whisper) | Transcribe audio to text |    |
+
+### Vision Language Model
+
+| Title | Description | Shields |
+| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| [Qwen2.5-vl](https://github.com/dora-rs/dora/blob/main/node-hub/dora-qwen2-5-vl) | Vision Language Model using Qwen2.5 VL |    |
+| [InternVL](https://github.com/dora-rs/dora/blob/main/node-hub/dora-internvl) | InternVL is a vision language model |    |
+
+### Large Language Model
+
+| Title | Description | Shields |
+| ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| [Qwen2.5](https://github.com/dora-rs/dora/blob/main/node-hub/dora-qwen) | Large Language Model using Qwen |    |
+
+### Vision Language Action
+
+| Title | Description | Shields |
+| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| [RDT-1B](https://github.com/dora-rs/dora/blob/main/node-hub/dora-rdt-1b) | Infer policy using Robotic Diffusion Transformer |    |
+
+### Object Detection
+
+| Title | Description | Shields |
+| ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| [Yolov8](https://github.com/dora-rs/dora/blob/main/node-hub/dora-yolo) | Object detection |    |
+
+### Segmentation
+
+| Title | Description | Shields |
+| -------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| [SAM2](https://github.com/dora-rs/dora/blob/main/node-hub/dora-sam2) | Segment Anything |    |
+
+### Translation
+
+| Title | Description | Shields |
+| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| [ArgosTranslate](https://github.com/dora-rs/dora/blob/main/node-hub/dora-argotranslate) | Open Source translation engine |    |
+| [Opus MT](https://github.com/dora-rs/dora/blob/main/node-hub/dora-opus) | Translate text between language |    |
-### With pip
+### Text to Speech
+
+| Title | Description | Shields |
+| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| [Kokoro TTS](https://github.com/dora-rs/dora/blob/main/node-hub/dora-kokoro-tts) | Efficient Text to Speech |    |
+
+### Recorder
+
+| Title | Description | Shields |
+| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| [Llama Factory Recorder](https://github.com/dora-rs/dora/blob/main/node-hub/llama-factory-recorder) | Record data to train LLM and VLM |    |
+| [LeRobot Recorder](https://github.com/dora-rs/dora-lerobot/blob/main/node-hub/lerobot-dashboard) | LeRobot Recorder helper | |
+
+### Visualization
+
+| Title | Description | Shields |
+| ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
+| [Plot](https://github.com/dora-rs/dora/blob/main/node-hub/opencv-plot) | Simple OpenCV plot visualization |    |
+| [Rerun](https://github.com/dora-rs/dora/blob/main/node-hub/dora-rerun) | Visualization tool |    |
+
+### Simulator
+
+| Title | Description | Shields |
+| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------ | ------- |
+| [Mujoco](https://github.com/dora-rs/dora-lerobot/blob/main/node-hub/mujoco-client) | Mujoco Simulator | |
+| [Carla](https://github.com/dora-rs/dora-drives) | Carla Simulator | |
+| [Gymnasium](https://github.com/dora-rs/dora-lerobot/blob/main/gym_dora) | Experimental OpenAI Gymnasium bridge | |
+
+## Quick Start
+
+### Installation
```bash
pip install dora-rs-cli
```
+
+Additional installation methods
+
+Install dora with our standalone installers, or from [crates.io](https://crates.io/crates/dora-cli):
+
### With cargo
```bash
@@ -100,6 +231,17 @@ curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dora-rs/d
powershell -c "irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dora-rs/dora/main/install.ps1 | iex"
```
+### With Source
+
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/dora-rs/dora.git
+cd dora
+cargo build --release -p dora-cli
+PATH=$PATH:$(pwd)/target/release
+```
+
+
+
## Documentation
The full documentation is available on [our website](https://dora-rs.ai/).
@@ -107,14 +249,12 @@ A lot of guides are available on [this section](https://dora-rs.ai/docs/guides/)
## Getting Started
-1. Run some Python examples (A venv must be activated):
+1. Run some Python examples:
```bash
-cd examples/python-dataflow
-uv venv --seed
-uv pip install -e ../../apis/python/node --reinstall
-dora build dataflow.yml --uv
-dora run dataflow.yml --uv
+uv venv --seed -p 3.11
+dora build https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dora-rs/dora/refs/heads/main/examples/object-detection/yolo.yml --uv
+dora run yolo.yml --uv
```
> Make sure to have a webcam
@@ -176,16 +316,6 @@ dora-rs uses Opentelemetry to record all your logs, metrics and traces. This mea
Opentelemetry is language independent, backend agnostic, and easily collect distributed data, making it perfect for dora-rs applications.
-### Hot-Reloading
-
-dora-rs implements Hot-Reloading for python which means you can change code at runtime in Python while keeping your state intact.
-
-Using the feature flag: `--attach --hot-reload`, dora-rs watch for code change and reload nodes that has been modified.
-
-You can check fail-safe mechanism at: https://github.com/dora-rs/dora/pull/239.
-
-See [this demo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvvTEP8Jak8).
-
### ROS2 Bridge
**Note**: this feature is marked as unstable.
@@ -236,36 +366,16 @@ Self-Coding Robot is just the tip of the iceberg of robotics combined with llm,
- [memory](https://github.com/cpacker/MemGPT)
- [function calling](https://github.com/ShishirPatil/gorilla)
-### Cool Hardwares
-
-Cool hardware that we think might be good fit to try out dora-rs 🙋 We are not sponsored by manufacturers:
-
-| | Price | Open Source | Github | type | Dora Project |
-| --------------------------------- | ----- | ------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------- |
-| DJI Robomaster S1 | 550$ | SDK | https://github.com/dji-sdk/RoboMaster-SDK | Rover | https://huggingface.co/datasets/dora-rs/dora-robomaster |
-| DJI Robomaster EP Core | 950$ | SDK | https://github.com/dji-sdk/RoboMaster-SDK | Rover, Arm | |
-| DJI Tello | 100$ | | | Drone | |
-| BitCraze Crazyflies | 225$ | Firmware, Lib, SDK | https://github.com/bitcraze | Drone | |
-| AlexanderKoch-Koch/low_cost_robot | 250$ | Everything | https://github.com/AlexanderKoch-Koch/low_cost_robot | Arm | |
-| xArm 1S | 200$ | | | Arm | |
-| Wavego | 250$ | | | Quadruplet | |
-| AINex | 800$ | | | Humanoid | |
-
-> For more: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YYeW2jfOIWDVgdEgqnMvltonHquQ7K8OZCrnJRELL6o/edit#gid=0
-
## Support Matrix
-| | dora-rs | Hoped for |
-| --------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| **Tier 1 Support** | Python, Rust | C, C++, ROS 2 |
+| | dora-rs | Hoped for |
+| --------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| **Tier 1 Support** | Python, Rust | C, C++, ROS 2 |
| **Tier 2 Support** | C, C++, ROS2 |
-| **Hot-reloading** | Python | Rust (https://github.com/orgs/dora-rs/discussions/360) |
-| **Message Format** | Arrow | Native |
-| **Local Communication** | Shared Memory | Custom Middleware, [zero-copy GPU IPC](https://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/api/cuda.html), intra-process `tokio::channel` communication |
-| **Remote Communication** | TCP | Custom Middleware, [Zenoh](https://zenoh.io/) |
-| **Metrics, Tracing, and Logging** | Opentelemetry | Native logging libraries into Opentelemetry |
-| **Data archives** | Parquet ([dora-record](https://github.com/dora-rs/dora/tree/main/node-hub/dora-record)) |
-| **Visualization and annotation** | OpenCV | [rerun.io](rerun.io) |
+| **Message Format** | Arrow | Native |
+| **Local Communication** | Shared Memory, [Cuda zero-copy IPC](https://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/api/cuda.html) | Custom Middleware, intra-process `tokio::channel` communication |
+| **Remote Communication** | [Zenoh](https://zenoh.io/) | Custom Middleware |
+| **Metrics, Tracing, and Logging** | Opentelemetry | Native logging libraries into Opentelemetry |
| **Supported Platforms (x86)** | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| **Supported Platforms (ARM)** | macOS, Linux |
| **Configuration** | YAML |
diff --git a/examples/llm/README.md b/examples/llm/README.md
index c40325b2..8bb88c3c 100644
--- a/examples/llm/README.md
+++ b/examples/llm/README.md
@@ -2,10 +2,49 @@
Make sure to have, dora, pip and cargo installed.
+## System dependencies:
+
+- MacOS
+
+```bash
+brew install portaudio
+brew install espeak-ng
+```
+
+- Linux
+
```bash
-# Make sure to not be in a virtual environment
+sudo apt-get install portaudio19-dev
+sudo apt-get install espeak
+```
+
+## Installation
+
+```bash
+# Make sure to have the latest the development dora version
+cargo build -p dora-cli --release
+## Alternatively
+# uv pip install -e ../../binaries/cli --reinstall
+
uv venv --seed -p 3.11
+# Make sure to have the latest the development dora node api version
uv pip install -e ../../apis/python/node --reinstall
dora build qwen-dev.yml --uv
dora run qwen-dev.yml --uv
```
+
+## With prepackaged version
+
+```bash
+pip install dora-rs-cli==3.10
+uv venv --seed -p 3.11
+# Make sure to have the latest the development dora node api version
+dora build qwen-dev.yml --uv
+dora run qwen-dev.yml --uv
+```
+
+## To run
+
+```bash
+dora run qwen-dev.yml --uv
+```
diff --git a/examples/object-detection/README.md b/examples/object-detection/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ed27c799
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/object-detection/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+## Yolo Example
+
+To run:
+
+```bash
+uv venv --seed -p 3.11
+dora build https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dora-rs/dora/refs/heads/main/examples/object-detection/yolo.yml --uv
+dora run yolo.yml --uv
+```
diff --git a/examples/object-detection/yolo.yml b/examples/object-detection/yolo.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..41bf906a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/object-detection/yolo.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+nodes:
+ - id: camera
+ build: pip install opencv-video-capture
+ path: opencv-video-capture
+ inputs:
+ tick: dora/timer/millis/20
+ outputs:
+ - image
+ env:
+ CAPTURE_PATH: 0
+ IMAGE_WIDTH: 640
+ IMAGE_HEIGHT: 480
+
+ - id: object-detection
+ build: pip install dora-yolo
+ path: dora-yolo
+ inputs:
+ image: camera/image
+ outputs:
+ - bbox
+
+ - id: plot
+ build: pip install dora-rerun
+ path: dora-rerun
+ inputs:
+ image: camera/image
+ boxes2d: object-detection/bbox
diff --git a/examples/speech-to-speech/README.md b/examples/speech-to-speech/README.md
index 931122be..9a1ab766 100644
--- a/examples/speech-to-speech/README.md
+++ b/examples/speech-to-speech/README.md
@@ -2,6 +2,24 @@
Make sure to have, dora, pip and cargo installed.
+## System dependencies:
+
+- MacOS
+
+```bash
+brew install portaudio
+brew install espeak-ng
+```
+
+- Linux
+
+```bash
+sudo apt-get install portaudio19-dev
+sudo apt-get install espeak
+```
+
+## To Run:
+
```bash
uv venv --seed -p 3.11
uv pip install -e ../../apis/python/node --reinstall