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Capabilities and Limitations

An honest summary of what Rover Nexus does today and its known constraints — for evaluators and planners.

What it does today

Fleet monitoring

  • Live position, heading, battery or fuel, status, and faults across the fleet.
  • Mixed, multi-vendor fleets in one view — no vendor lock-in.

Planning (PathLab)

  • Import map data or draw boundaries and zones.
  • Generate coverage paths: rows, spiral, continuous path, or spaced points, with options for working width, turn radius, headlands, overlap or row count, and row angle.

Missions

  • Reusable mission templates (parameters, required capabilities, optional area).
  • Dispatch to a specific robot or any capable robot.
  • Run now or schedule — one-time, or recurring (a Weekly Schedule or Interval).
  • Prerequisites (battery, fuel, GPS) can gate a dispatch.

Operations

  • Multi-step jobs — such as haul jobs and route series — across several robots with live feedback.

Teleoperation

  • Live WebRTC video (dual-track, switchable) with gamepad control.

Access and governance

  • Organizations with roles (Owner, Admin, Member, Viewer).
  • Fleet roles (Manager, Planner, Operator, Viewer), permission-based.
  • Cross-org fleet sharing with a role cap and optional expiration.

Connectivity and security

  • All robot-to-cloud traffic uses mutual TLS (mTLS).
  • Robots integrate via Zenoh (primary), ROS 2 (via a bridge), and a REST API (coming soon). Zenoh is the native surface and what custom integrations use; ROS 2 connects through an external bridge that translates ROS 2 (DDS) to and from the Zenoh messaging.

Known limitations and constraints

  • Robot agent is Linux only. There is no Windows or macOS agent.
  • Cameras must be V4L2-compatible. Video uses GStreamer to WebRTC.
  • ROS 2 robots require an external bridge. The bridge translates ROS 2 topics to and from Rover Nexus; it must be running for ROS 2 robots to connect.
  • The bootstrap command is single-use and renews. A new bootstrap command is needed if enrollment doesn't complete in time. The agent will renew its credentials periodically when needed.
  • Teleoperation requires a gamepad, a WebRTC-capable network path, and a robot that supports teleop.
  • Deployment model. Rover Nexus is a managed cloud service. Contact us to discuss deployment options.
  • Scale and limits. Fleets scale with your deployment — contact [email protected] to discuss large deployments.