LiveKit's New Portal Lets You Control Robots from Anywhere
This could let you operate robots remotely as easily as a video call.
Deep Dive
LiveKit released Portal for ROS 2, which enables forwarding ROS topics, services, and video anywhere in the world through LiveKit’s highly reliable real-time infrastructure. Use it for teleoperation, telemetry, fleet management, or to offload heavy ROS 2 nodes onto a more powerful machine.
To show how it works, LiveKit built a turtlesim tutorial where you can drive a turtlebot over LiveKit. Check out the full release blog post here!
Key Points
- LiveKit's Portal lets you control ROS 2 robots from anywhere over the internet.
- It's useful for teleoperation, fleet management, and offloading heavy computing.
- The catch: you need a LiveKit account and technical setup to use it.
Why It Matters
This could make remote robot operation as easy as a video call, enabling new services and safer work.