Robot Context Protocol (RCP): A Runtime-Agnostic Interface for Agent-Aware Robot Control
Lambert Lee, Joshua Lau

TL;DR
The paper introduces RCP, a middleware-agnostic communication protocol that simplifies robotic system interactions, supporting diverse environments and enhancing robustness, scalability, and security in multi-agent ecosystems.
Contribution
It presents RCP, a novel, schema-driven, runtime-agnostic protocol that unifies robot communication across various platforms and deployment scenarios.
Findings
Supports seamless robot-user-agent interactions
Ensures robustness and security through strict type validation
Enables deployment in manufacturing, logistics, and healthcare
Abstract
The Robot Context Protocol (RCP) is a lightweight, middleware-agnostic communication protocol designed to simplify the complexity of robotic systems and enable seamless interaction between robots, users, and autonomous agents. RCP provides a unified and semantically meaningful interface that decouples client-facing operations from backend implementations, supporting a wide range of deployment environments including physical robots, cloud-based orchestrators, and simulated platforms. Built on HTTP and WebSocket transport layers, the protocol defines a schema-driven message format with structured operations such as read, write, execute, and subscribe. It integrates features such as runtime introspection, asynchronous feedback, multi-tenant namespace isolation, and strict type validation to ensure robustness, scalability, and security. The architecture, message structure, interface model,…
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Taxonomy
TopicsRobotics and Automated Systems · Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
