Robotics demos are improving quickly, but turning them into reliable autonomous products remains difficult. This post explores the motivation behind Copper, a Rust-based runtime for real-world autonomy systems, and explains why determinism and low-latency execution are essential for debugging and validating autonomous systems, and how Copper approaches these challenges by combining compile-time system generation, data-oriented execution, and deterministic replay.

This is release 0.13 of Copper with a bunch of new observability features.