The easiest way to create web UIs for ROS robots
Our new, free ros-tool capability makes it trivial to interact with ROS from the web. It provides a React API for subscribing and publish to topics and for placing service calls. It works with both ROS 1 and 2, and unlike rosbridge, it caches all data in the cloud, which means your UIs will work even when your robot is offline (just showing the latest data). Since all data is synced via the cloud, it is also much easier and more efficient to aggregate data from multiple robots, e.g., for showing your fleet on a map. Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgNdGvwYSiI
The easiest way to create web UIs for ROS robots launched on July 8, 2024 with 20 votes, #1,061 of 5,184 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
This free tool enables developers to build web interfaces for ROS robots using a React API that subscribes to topics, publishes messages, and makes service calls. It supports both ROS 1 and 2, and stores data in the cloud so interfaces display the latest information even when robots are offline. The cloud-based architecture simplifies managing multiple robots simultaneously, such as displaying an entire fleet on a shared map.
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A generic tool for interacting with ROS from the web (pub, sub, and service calls)
A generic ROS tool providing a React API for subscribing, publishing, and making service calls from the web. This is very similar to rosbridge + roslibjs , but based on Transitive's MQTTSync protocol which has several advantages over rosbridge: subscribe(rosVersion, topic) : subscribe to ROS topics on the robot, e.g., subscribe(1, '/odom') . This will cause the robot component of this capability to subscribe to that topic on the robot and publish the latest values on MQTTSync under the /device/ros/[rosVersion]/messages/[topic] namespace, and it will subscribe to that MQTTSync topic. unsubscribe(rosVersion, topic) : unsubscribe from a previously subscribed topic. Does nothing if not…from transitiverobotics.com
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