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First Layer Robotics

Modular, integration-ready subsystems for mobile robots

Mobile robotics teams rebuild the same low-level infrastructure — motor control, encoder acquisition, power distribution, embedded firmware and host communication — for almost every new platform. We build those foundational layers into ready-to-integrate subsystems, engineered and qualified so you can focus on your application.

Every subsystem ships fully characterised, traceable to its serial, and built on open protocols — so what you read on the data sheet matches what runs on your bench. Motion Core is the foundation layer between your host SBC and the motors on any differential-drive robot.

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Motion Core

Motion Core motion controller board, top view with labelled connectors and interfaces

A USB-connected motion subsystem that runs under any Linux host or ROS 2 stack, including NVIDIA Jetson and Raspberry Pi — integrating motor control, wheel-velocity PID, kinematics, power distribution and a hardware safety architecture in a single robotics-native platform.

All built on ORCP — an open protocol with ready-to-use Python and ROS 2 libraries — so you're sending velocity commands within minutes, not weeks.

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