I was wondering about the same, and have been trying to seek prior work along those lines. Here's what I've come across so far, regarding use of Beam VM (Erlang

I was wondering about the same, and have been trying to seek prior work along those lines. Here's what I've come across so far, regarding use of Beam VM (Erlang/Elixir) for robotics: 1. Nerves seems like a promising platform: https://nerves-project.org/ https://nerves-project.org/ 2. There's also Grisp ("Erlang on bare metal") 3. Jean Francois Cloutier's DDD talks on using Elixir for behavioral robots (3 annual updates; I really liked these) 4. A handful of talks on YouTube when searching for "erlang robotics" or "elixir robotics", but I haven't had a chance to check out all of them yet. The superficial catch is that most ML progress in the recent past has focused on exploiting data parallellism (SIMD; rather than concurrency / task parallellism), and I don't know whether Erlang is as great at that. But supposedly it has a very good FFI, because it was designed to interface nicely with C programs running on network equipment. ROS "feels" like clunky/heavy scaffolding for what should be simple and transparent plumbing. Instinctively, the Erlang VM seems like the perfect platform for building an agent doing fault tolerant concurrent computations -- but I don't have any Erlang/Elixir experience. I'd love to hear about any other pointers, or discussion along these lines.