robot_mcp

Model Context Protocol server for ROS2 robots - Control your robot with natural language through AI assistants like Claude.

Features

• Out-of-the-box solution for linking LLMs to ROS2 messages, actions, and services

• Expansive macro architecture to allow for custom message handling with MCP

• HTTP-based MCP server to allow for remote connections to multiple robots with authentication

• Comprehensive configuration settings to allow for fine-grained behavior control

• Resource group management to handle possible concurrency conflicts

• Native C++ implementation to maximize performance

• rclcpp_lifecycle management to allow for fine-grained control over robot_mcp's lifespan

Quick Start

# Install debian package
sudo apt install ros-<$ROS_DISTRO>-robot-mcp

# source ROS2 and Run
source /opt/ros/<$ROS_DISTRO>/setup.bash
ros2 launch robot_mcp robot_mcp.launch.py

Configure Claude Desktop to connect at http://localhost:8080/mcp

Status

Under active development - Documentation and examples coming soon.