This extension is being deprecated, replaced by Robot Developer Extensions #1306
Description
Hello All,
As the dev lead for the Azure Edge Robotics, my team adopted and maintained the VSCode ROS Extension since 2019. Since then, it has been installed over 1.2 million times! After the team dissolution, I maintained the extension as a side project. A policy change requires this extension be deprecated and the github repo archived.
Fortunately, I worked with my leadership to relaunch the extension outside of Microsoft.
As part of the relaunch, I've divided the extension into 3 pieces:
Robot Developer Extension for ROS 1
This is a legacy extension which is tested with Noetic and Ubuntu 20.04.
You can install it from the marketplace or within VSCode.
File issues and feature requests here.
Robot Developer Extension for ROS 2
This is actively being invested in, with numerous bug fixes and quality of life improvements.
The Pre-release will shortly include a Model Context Protocol server to allow Github Copilot (or others) to directly interact with the ROS Graph for diagnostics and direct code modification.
You can install it from the marketplace or within VSCode.
File issues and feature requests here.
Robot Developer Extension for URDF/Xacro
This is a standalone URDF/Xacro editor which does not require ROS to be installed to visualize.
Includes new features:
- Collision Mesh visualization
- Visual Enable/Disable
- Inline Joint Exercise
- Reset View
- Updated Rendering
- AI Driven Development features for Github Copilot
You can install it from the marketplace or within VSCode.
File issues and feature requests here.
Robot Developer Environment
This is a package which includes ROS 2 and URDF Editor and new extensions in development.
You can install it from the marketplace or within VSCode.
File issues and feature requests here.
Thank you all for your support over the years!