Hi everyone,

I’m Marvel, a computational neuroscientist at Cambridge building robotics infrastructure.

I’m trying to better understand where current robotics teams struggle most in production.

If you’re working on manipulation, humanoids, or industrial robotics, I’d love to hear:
What’s your biggest deployment bottleneck today?
What problem keeps coming up that existing tools don’t solve well?

I’m happy to share what I’m building if it’s relevant, but my main goal is to learn from teams actually deploying robots.

Thanks!😁

I was trying to write a code for my robot to move with cmd_vel topic. But I couldn't find any code documentation for rclpy, geometry_msgs etc that is usable. I mean I wouldn't be able to write a simple code without AI. Where I can learn this type of things, like ros2 functions in python? Is for example, youtube a reliable source for these? Also is it worth to read the ROS2 books? If it is, can you recommend some?

We entered the instruction, “Move around the table-shaped obstacle 1.5 meters ahead and return to the starting position,” and the AI model broke it down into a sequence of movement commands and executed them in simulation.

This is not yet a demonstration of fully autonomous, sensor-based obstacle avoidance. At this stage, we are exploring the possibility of translating tasks expressed in natural language into sequences of ROS2 commands.

I’m currently working with the RobotMCP team. I’d be interested to hear where you think this approach could be most useful in real-world robot development or prototyping, as well as what limitations it might have.

Been frustrated by how many small URDF mistakes (missing inertial, broken mesh refs, joint limit typos) only surface once you launch RViz or Gazebo. Made a tool that catches ~14 categories of issues client-side, in the browser, before you even get there. Drop a folder with your URDF + meshes and it resolves package:// paths automatically. Also renders the model in 3D with joint sliders so you can sanity-check ranges visually.

Everything runs locally — nothing gets uploaded anywhere.

https://urdf-viewer.leonagraph4016.workers.dev — there's a sample URDF button if you want to try it without your own files.

Would love feedback, especially on validation checks I might be missing or false positives.