Issue installing Robotics Academy on macOS

[Sarvesh-Mishra1981]

I’m facing issues installing Robotics Academy on macOS. The official documentation does not seem to provide a download or installation steps for macOS. I would be grateful if someone could share the correct commands or point me toward a reference that explains the macOS installation process.

[jmplaza]

Hi @Sarvesh-Mishra1981 ,

nice to meet you. Yeah, the official documentation is mostly oriented to Linux and MS-Windows machines.... It will be nice you help on improving the documentation for MacOS machines.

As RoboticsAcademy user the procedure is to download the RADI (RoboticsAcademy Docker Image) from JdeRobot's DockerHub and launching it locally. As the GPU support is tricky (although very convenient to run the Gazebo simulator inside RADI in a fluent way), I would suggest launching the RADI with only-CPU instructions, without GPU acceleration for now.

Another way, a little bit more complex, is to follow the RoboticsAcademy instructions to build locally a RADI after you download all the repositories locally.

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[Sarvesh-Mishra1981]

Thank you @jmplaza problem is resolved, Now I will just improve the documentation and will solve the exercises.

[AshishRamesh]

Hi @Sarvesh-Mishra1981,
the Ros Native support is now live for the follow line and vacuum cleaner exercises.

Please note that the updates are currently not part of the latest release so if you wish to check them out clone the repo and follow the developer setup from here

[Sarvesh-Mishra1981]

Hello @jmplaza

VIDEO-2025-09-15-21-59-41.mp4

I have successfully completed the first exercise of JdeRobot Robotics Academy,
where I built a line-following robot using OpenCV for vision and a PID controller for smooth movement. Through this task, I learned how to process images, detect colors, calculate centroids, and apply control theory to guide the robot in real-time. It was both challenging and exciting, and I feel I gained valuable hands-on experience combining computer vision with robotics control. This exercise showed me how complex ideas can come together in a practical way, and I’m really thankful to the JdeRobot team for creating such an amazing platform to learn and grow in robotics and quite excited to contribute to this and try more such exercise and get familiar to Robotics Academy Architecture.

[jmplaza]

Well done @Sarvesh-Mishra1981 ! Please feel free to send the PRs for #3246 that improves the installation instruction for RoboticsAcademy users, and maybe for RoboticsAcademy developers.

[Sarvesh-Mishra1981]

Thankyou @jmplaza
I will surely improve the documentation and send the PRs.