LiveKit Portal for ROS 2 released: bridging ROS graphs over WebRTC

LiveKit released LiveKit Portal for ROS 2, a standalone ROS 2 node that connects a ROS graph to a LiveKit room so ROS and non-ROS participants can exchange topics, service calls, and video over WebRTC without exposing DDS across networks. It supports four data paths—topics via DataTracks, services via RPC, images as VideoTracks, and direct video sources—with YAML rules for direction, rate limits, and schema encoding. A demo offloads stereo SLAM and scene reconstruction from a Jetson Orin Nano rover to a desktop RTX 5090.