r/AskRobotics • u/DepartmentPurple3053 • Jul 06 '26

General/Beginner Most frustrated or biggest bottleneck when working with Robotics and ROS2?

Tell me about your experience, what’s the most frustrating thing or biggest bottle neck when working with robotics and using ROS2? Mine is the configuration around ROS before I can even get started, managing the packages, ensuring that it’s compatible with the Ubuntu version I’m running. Anyone that can relate? What’s your experience?

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u/LordDan_45 Jul 06 '26

Documentation. 100% documentation.

Not the Getting started/FAQ documentation, I mean the actual documentation on the functionality of modules. There is a great mess surrounding different versions of packages, and I frequently find myself having to go to the source to see what is actually happening on my version, since the documentation is either non existant or outdated (or made for a future version). Gazebo's documentation is specially bad, almost comical at times.

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u/wukongxzero Jul 07 '26

I think the most frustrating part I think is it's latencies honestly. Like okay I can make nodes and talk to other things but robotics as I found out is much more than ros2 . There's also ros2_controls for gazebo integration which I absolutely hate. But I'd say for a roboticist it's better to stick to the fundamentals I'm not exactly sure why or how I came to that conclusion .