ROS-MCP-Server connects large language models (such as Claude, GPT, and Gemini) to robots, enabling bidirectional communication with no changes to existing robot source code.
It uses the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to allow LLMs to publish/subscribe to ROS topics, call services & actions, set parameters, and monitor robot state in real time via a rosbridge WebSocket connection.
Supports ROS 2 (Jazzy, Humble, and others) and ROS 1 distributions.
When using HTTP or Streamable HTTP transports, the snap automatically runs
the server as a background daemon. Set the transport via
snap set ros-mcp-server transport=http (or transport=streamable-http)
and the daemon will start automatically.
Usage: ros-mcp-server # stdio transport (default) ros-mcp-server --transport http --port 9000 # HTTP transport ros-mcp-server --transport streamable-http --port 8080 # Streamable HTTP transport
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Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
On Arch Linux, snap can be installed from the Arch User Repository (AUR). The manual build process is the Arch-supported install method for AUR packages, and you’ll need the prerequisites installed before you can install any AUR package. You can then install snap with the following:
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/snapd.git
cd snapd
makepkg -si
Once installed, the systemd unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled:
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket
If AppArmor is enabled in your system, enable the service which loads AppArmor profiles for snaps:
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.apparmor.service
To enable classic snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between /var/lib/snapd/snap and /snap:
sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.
To install ROS MCP Server, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install ros-mcp-server
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