siemens/ros-sharp

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

ROS# is a set of open-source C# libraries and tools for communicating with the Robot Operating System (ROS) from .NET applications, most notably Unity3D. It lets developers publish and subscribe to topics, call services and actions, and exchange ROS messages from within the .NET ecosystem.

Use cases

• connect a Unity3D simulation to a ROS robot
• publish and subscribe to ROS topics from a C# application
• call ROS services and actions from .NET code
• visualize robot sensor data in Unity
• build robotics digital twins with .NET
• bridge ROS messages into a Unity game engine scene

When to choose

• you are building Unity3D-based robot simulations or visualizations that talk to ROS
• you need ROS connectivity from a .NET or C# application
• you want an open-source, Apache-2.0 licensed ROS bridge for the Microsoft ecosystem

When to avoid

• your project is purely in Python or C++ and can use native ROS client libraries
• you need a ROS bridge for a non-.NET game engine or platform
• you require real-time hard guarantees that a middleware bridge cannot provide

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sdk middleware websocket serialization robotics simulation cross-platform developer-tools cross-platform game-engine dotnet windows ros unity3d csharp robotics-communication topic-subscription ros-messages linux macos

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