[osterwood]

I wrote a blog article recently wherein I propose that cloud-native infrastructure can be a better foundation for robotic software stacks than ROS/ROS2. I've been involved in several ROS-based robot & robot-sensor efforts and (like many others here) have found it lacking in major ways.

https://capablerobot.com/blog/2018/2018-05-09-wheel-reinvent...

There are a whole host of performant, lightweight, and open source tools for distributed-tracking, pub/sub, logging, serialization, service discovery, KV stores, visualization, etc. Right now it seems the robot world (including me) ignores this fact and continues to reinvent wheels (poorly).

I'm curious for feedback on this idea and will be publishing updates as I experiment with this idea. I'll likely be starting with timing & latency experiments between ROS, ROS2, and other cloud-native pub/sub brokers.