Software and middleware
WebRTC
WebRTC is the open standard for peer-to-peer realtime audio, video and data, jointly specified by the W3C and the IETF. In robotics it has become the workhorse of teleoperation : the transport layer underneath products such as LiveKit. It has no SPDX licence and no single country of origin: it is a specification, not a piece of software.
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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First release Opening
Google open-sources the voice and video engines acquired with GIPS, under a royalty-free BSD-style licence. Day left unstated: the project blog dates the post 3 May 2011, the W3C mailing-list announcement lands on 31 May.
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Governance Opening
W3C publishes WebRTC 1.0 as a Recommendation, jointly with the matching IETF protocol standards: the transport of the web becomes an open standard rather than one vendor's code base.
Sources: W3C (official specification) (2025-03-13)IETF (official blog) (2026-08-27)IETF Datatracker (RFC 8825) (2026-08-27)W3C (page official) (2026-08-27)Transitive Robotics (page produit official) (2026-08-27)Projet WebRTC (archive official de webrtc.org) (2011-05-03)World Wide Web Consortium (official press release) (2021-01-26)
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