For roboticists looking to combine the the advancements of cloud compute with the use of cheap microcontrollers such as the ESP32, RP2040, Arduino family of ATMEGAs, Jack Pien of Hadabot.com demonstrates a novel way of running a ROS 2 Navigation 2 (ie, Nav2) system in the Cloud (on AWS RobotMaker) to control a sub-$200 ESP32-based differential drive robot. The approach involves using the ros2-web-bridge “agent” system.
