RoboComp is an open-source robotics framework. It provides different software components for robotics and the necessary tools to use them. Running components form a graph of processes that can be distributed over different cores, CPU's or computers using software component technology. Communications are handled by the Ice framework. Our main goals in designing the system are efficiency, ease of use and reusability. RoboComp uses in some of its components other tools or libraries such as CMake, Qt4, IPP, OpenSceneGraph and OpenGL (most of them are optional). Programming languages used in the project are mainly C++ and Python but the Ice framework makes possible to easily use components written in many other languages.