| As robotics moves toward end-to-end AI systems, stuff needs to stay on GPU memory, not shuttled back and forth across processes through a networking stack.
NVIDIA actually is addressing this with NITROS: https://nvidia-isaac-ros.github.io/concepts/nitros/index.htm...
And ROS native buffers: https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/update-on-ros-native-bu...
It's fine for robots like these
https://docs.nav2.org/about/robots.html
It's not useful for robots like these
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoQI-kLRrXA
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hKVwM5pa3NQ
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XA_jjE2OES4