generated: '2026-09-14'
method: searched
source: https://github.com/aidinrobotics
description: >-
  AIDIN ROBOTICS publishes first-party client software on GitHub only. Six repositories sit under
  the aidinrobotics org; four of them (SMACC2, mujoco_ros2_control, flexbe_behavior_engine,
  flexbe_app) are unmodified-purpose FORKS of third-party ROS 2 projects and are NOT AIDIN
  packages, so they are recorded below as excluded rather than counted. The two first-party
  packages are the AIDIN Hand Gen2 SDK and an older ROS driver for the AFT force/torque sensor
  over RS-485. Neither is published to a package registry: npm, PyPI, RubyGems, crates.io, NuGet,
  Maven Central and pkg.go.dev were all probed and returned 404 for every plausible name, so
  version and publication date are read from the repository's own CHANGELOG, tags and commit
  history instead.
registry_probes:
- registry: pypi
  names_probed: [aidin-hand2, aidin_hand2, aidinrobotics, aidin-robotics]
  result: 404 on every name
  checked: '2026-09-14'
- registry: npm
  names_probed: [aidin-hand2, '@aidinrobotics/sdk', aidinrobotics]
  result: 404 on every name
  checked: '2026-09-14'
- registry: none-other
  names_probed: []
  result: >-
    No Maven Central, NuGet, RubyGems, crates.io or pkg.go.dev artifact is referenced from any
    AIDIN ROBOTICS page or repository; the SDK documents a from-source CMake build and a
    `sudo cmake --install` as the only install path.
  checked: '2026-09-14'
package_count: 2
official_count: 2
packages:
- name: aidin-hand2-sdk
  language: C++
  official: true
  registry: github
  url: https://github.com/aidinrobotics/aidin-hand2-sdk
  version: 0.5.2
  published: '2026-09-10'
  license: Apache-2.0
  install: >-
    Source build only — cmake -S cpp -B cpp/build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo &&
    cmake --build cpp/build && sudo cmake --install cpp/build. Depends on spdlog >= 1.9 and
    can-utils on Ubuntu 22.04/24.04, GCC >= 11, CMake >= 3.16.
  description: >-
    C++ SDK for the AIDIN Hand Gen2, a 16-actuator / 21-joint robot hand with 85 fingertip and 58
    palm tactile taxels. Talks CAN-FD over Linux SocketCAN (1 Mbit/s nominal, 5 Mbit/s data) to a
    CiA 402 drive state machine, runs a 500 Hz real-time control loop, and exposes a lifecycle
    API with position, impedance, joint-position, joint-impedance, actuator-position and
    actuator-effort command modes plus state, tactile and diagnostics observation.
  currency_note: >-
    Version and date come from CHANGELOG.md, which records 0.5.2 on 2026-09-10 and is the
    repository's own release record; the latest git tag is v0.5.1 and no GitHub Release object
    has been cut, so the tag stream lags the changelog by one version. Eight versions have shipped
    (0.1.0 through 0.5.2) with the first dated entry on 2026-08-24 — this is an actively developed
    SDK, four days old at its latest release when probed.
  provenance: >-
    fork:false on the GitHub API — first-party, not a fork. Apache-2.0 with a NOTICE and
    THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.
  caveats:
  - >-
    Python bindings are announced in the README architecture diagram and in docs/en/10-12 but every
    one of those three pages is a "planned" placeholder; the shipped package is C++ only.
  - >-
    cpp/prebuilt/<arch>/libaidin_hand2_kinematics.so.0.5.2 ships as a BINARY blob (x86_64 and
    aarch64). The repository states the kinematics equations and hand geometry constants are not
    published and the Apache-2.0 licence permits object-form distribution, so the SDK is
    source-available but not fully source-complete.
  - >-
    A related repository, aidin-hand2-ros2 (a ROS 2 wrapper), is linked from the README but
    returns HTTP 404 on the GitHub API — it is either private or not yet published. The README
    also lists a browser GUI / WebSocket bridge as "pending".
- name: AFT_rs485 (serial_rs485)
  language: Python
  official: true
  registry: github
  url: https://github.com/aidinrobotics/AFT_rs485
  version: null
  published: null
  license: null
  install: >-
    Clone into a ROS workspace and build with catkin (melodic_devel / indigo_devel branches) or
    colcon (dashing-devel branch). No package index, no release, no tag.
  description: >-
    First-party ROS package reading the AIDIN AFT force/torque sensor over RS-485 serial. Ships a
    connect/signal node and a listener node in both ROS 1 (melodic, indigo) and ROS 2 (dashing)
    flavours.
  currency_note: >-
    version: null and published: null are checked-and-absent, not unchecked. The repository has no
    tags, no GitHub Releases, no package.xml version reachable through a default-branch tree (the
    `main` branch carries no tree) and no registry entry. Its last push was 2021-01-21 — five and
    a half years before this probe — and its newest ROS 2 target is Dashing Diademata, which
    reached end of life in May 2021. This is the strongest abandonment signal in the record: the
    driver for a product line the company still sells is pinned to an EOL ROS 2 distribution.
excluded_forks:
- name: SMACC2
  url: https://github.com/aidinrobotics/SMACC2
  reason: fork of the upstream SMACC2 ROS 2 state-machine library; not an AIDIN package
- name: mujoco_ros2_control
  url: https://github.com/aidinrobotics/mujoco_ros2_control
  reason: fork of the upstream MuJoCo ros2_control hardware interface; not an AIDIN package
- name: flexbe_behavior_engine
  url: https://github.com/aidinrobotics/flexbe_behavior_engine
  reason: fork of the upstream FlexBE behaviour engine; not an AIDIN package
- name: flexbe_app
  url: https://github.com/aidinrobotics/flexbe_app
  reason: fork of the upstream FlexBE editor/runtime UI; not an AIDIN package