Rust offers many advantages for robotics. One key benefit is its memory safety, which helps prevent critical bugs in complex systems. Additionally, its high performance is essential for real-time applications, while safe concurrency allows for efficient parallel processing, crucial for multi-core robotic systems.
This talk will present rclrs (https://github.com/ros2-rust/ros2_rust), the Rust client library for ROS 2, and its accompanying tooling. rclrs is being developed in the open by a community of Rust and ROS enthusiasts. Support for Rust is now part of ROS 2 rolling and will be shipped in the next ROS 2 releases.