ROS-Sensor

ROS2 Sensor turns your iPhone or iPad into a fully-featured ROS2 sensor node. Using native DDS communication, it publishes real-time sensor data directly to your ROS2 network — no rosbridge or middleware required.

Supported sensors:

• IMU (accelerometer + gyroscope) — sensor_msgs/Imu
• GPS location — sensor_msgs/NavSatFix
• Camera — sensor_msgs/CompressedImage
• Barometer — sensor_msgs/FluidPressure
• LiDAR point clouds — sensor_msgs/PointCloud2 (Pro devices)
• ARKit 6DOF pose tracking — geometry_msgs/PoseStamped

Perfect for robotics researchers, hobbyists, and developers who want to leverage the high-quality sensors in their Apple devices for ROS2 projects. Use your phone as an IMU, a mobile camera, a GPS source, or even a LiDAR scanner for your robot.

Requires a local network with ROS2 nodes to communicate with.