Software and middleware
LiveKit
LiveKit is the open-source WebRTC stack behind ChatGPT's voice mode, and since 2026 it has extended into robotics: Portal and ROS Portal, two Apache-2.0 packages for teleoperation, data recording and remote policy inference. Both repositories were created in April 2026 and the ROS 2 bridge is still a release candidate (v1.0.0-rc3, August 2026) with a handful of GitHub stars : the code is real and installable, but adoption is not yet there. Note the tension in its own positioning: the Portal announcement frames it as an alternative to ROS and DDS, while the robotics documentation presents a gateway towards ROS.
Trajectory
The dated, sourced shifts in this project's life: licence, governance, archival, a component opening up. What the brick did, not what it announces.
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Component Opening
The robotics repositories livekit/portal and livekit/ros-portal are created under Apache-2.0 : the robotics offering is published code, not only a positioning page.
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Component Neutral
The ROS 2 bridge reaches v1.0.0-rc3: still a release candidate, with a handful of GitHub stars.
Sources: GitHub, official LiveKit repository (2026-08-27)GitHub, official LiveKit repository (2026-08-27)GitHub, official LiveKit repository (2026-08-27)LiveKit, Inc. (official blog) (2026-06-10)LiveKit, Inc. (official documentation) (2026-08-27)LiveKit, Inc. (official site) (2026-08-27)LiveKit, Inc. (official site) (2026-08-27)LiveKit, Inc. (official site) (2026-08-27)LiveKit, Inc. (official blog) (2021-07-07)LiveKit, Inc. (official legal document) (2026-08-27)
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