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Overview
Cerulion is a 2024-founded robotics middleware company building an open-source, Rust-based operating system for robots focused on zero-copy shared-memory communication, deterministic replay, and ROS2 compatibility. Public sources consistently place it in San Francisco, and the product is currently in closed alpha / early access.
Primary product
Rust-based robot middleware / open-source operating system for robots
Founded
2024
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Robotics Engineering
Sub-industry
Robot middleware / robotics developer tools
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States
Mountain View, California, United States
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Business model
open-source software
B2B software
developer tools
Funding
People & investors
Leadership
Founder & CEO
Co-Founder
Founding Middleware Lead
Work & culture
Mission-driven, robotics-heavy team focused on making robot software more reliable, deterministic, and easier to debug. Public copy emphasizes engineering rigor, early access, benchmarking with users, and modern developer ergonomics.
Compensation
Public YC job posting for a Founding Middleware Lead listed a base salary range of $145K-$180K; no broader public compensation policy was found.
Product & market
Pricing
Not publicly listed; demo/early-access sales-led
Differentiators
- —zero-copy shared-memory transport
- —deterministic replay from graph order
- —native ROS2 message compatibility
- —built in Rust
- —process-based fault isolation
- —microsecond-latency performance
- —cross-platform GUI/app
- —supports large robotics payloads without serialization
Technology
Rust
iceoryx2
ROS 2
LCM
Zenoh
IceOryx
shared memory
zero-copy IPC
Godot Engine
NVIDIA Isaac Sim
Customers
Amazon Robotics
Boston Dynamics AI Institute
robotics engineers and teams using ROS/ROS2
Competitors
ROS 2
LCM
Zenoh
IceOryx / IceOryx2
Foxglove
Vention
Palladyne AI
Mech-Mind
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
Approximately $37K-$173K annual revenue (third-party estimate; low confidence)
Estimated monthly visits
1.2K
Jobs and careers at Cerulion
0 jobs at Cerulion
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