Robot Context Protocol (RCP): A Runtime-Agnostic Interface for Agent-Aware Robot Control

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11650v1
• Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 10:24:44 GMT
• Title: Robot Context Protocol (RCP): A Runtime-Agnostic Interface for Agent-Aware Robot Control
• Authors: Lambert Lee, Joshua Lau,
• Abstract summary: The Robot Context Protocol (RCP) is designed to simplify the complexity of robotic systems and enable seamless interaction between robots, users, and autonomous agents.<n>RCP provides a unified and semantically meaningful interface that decouples client-facing operations from backend implementations.<n>RCP enables intelligent, resilient, and safe robotic operations in complex, multi-agent ecosystems.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• 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, and adapter-based backend integration strategy of RCP are described, along with deployment practices and applicability across industries including manufacturing, logistics, and healthcare. RCP enables intelligent, resilient, and safe robotic operations in complex, multi-agent ecosystems.

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