ROS MCP Server
Connect Claude, GPT and Gemini to ROS robots for two-way control and observation without changing robot code.
Sources and review
Checked against public documentation on . Suitability guidance is our editorial judgment; this is not a performance benchmark or an endorsement.
Robotics developers prototyping natural-language control and inspection of a ROS system.
You can't run rosbridge alongside your robot; the server communicates through it.
About ROS MCP Server
ROS MCP Server connects LLMs to ROS and ROS 2 robots through the rosbridge node, with no changes to existing robot source code. Models can publish and subscribe to topics, call services and actions, set parameters, read sensor data and monitor robot state, and are guided to discover available interfaces, including custom message types. It works with Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Claude Desktop, ChatGPT and Cursor.
ROS MCP Server is an open-source project written primarily in Python, with 1.5k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in September 2026.
ROS MCP Server vs. the alternatives
All 163 alternatives →| Record | Stars | Pricing | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROS MCP Serverthis listing | 1.5k | Python | Apache-2.0 | Open source |
| MCP Reference Servers | 91k | TypeScript | MIT AND Apache-2.0 | Open source |
| context7 | 62k | TypeScript | MIT | Open source |
| chrome-devtools-mcp | 53k | TypeScript | Apache-2.0 | Open source |
| Playwright MCP | 37k | TypeScript | Apache-2.0 | Open source |
| github-mcp-server | 33k | Go | MIT | Open source |
