Simple, Safe, Open: Building Your First ROS 2 Rover with Rust and Pixi

<p>Have you ever wanted to build your own robot but felt overwhelmed by the complexity of dependencies, compilers, and unstable C++ code? Then why not use Rust? In this talk, we aim to convince you that ROS 2-Rust allows the creation of a state-of-the-art stack that is simple, safe, robust, memory-safe, and highly-performant, drastically reducing the time spent debugging runtime crashes. We will also show how to take advantage of Cargo, the Rust package manager, to ease dependency management.</p> <p>In order to demonstrate our postulate, we have open-sourced a repository that allows everyone to create a minimal, teleoperable rover from scratch. This shows how ROS 2-Rust can further reduce the barrier to entry in the world of robotics.</p> <p>This project also displays how we used Pixi to simplify the entire development workflow, allowing any developer to clone our open-source repository and achieve a fully working, cross-platform ROS 2 and Rust environment with just a single Pixi install command.</p> <p>Join us to see how this modern toolchain transforms complex robotics projects into an accessible and enjoyable open-source experience. We aim to inspire you to start your own rover project and show that building your first robot is now as simple as that.</p>