Babel42 — ROS2 Workspace Analysis
What is ROS2?
ROS2 (Robot Operating System 2) is the leading open source framework for robotics software. It provides libraries, tools, and conventions for building robot applications: sensors, actuators, navigation, simulation, and more. Widely used in industrial automation, autonomous vehicles, and research, ROS2 projects typically organize code in workspaces made of many interdependent packages — which can become hard to keep consistent as projects grow.
What is Babel42?
Babel42 analyzes ROS2 workspaces to surface structural issues early: dependency mismatches, incomplete manifests, launch include problems, and runtime topic/service inconsistencies. It helps teams catch configuration errors before they show up at runtime.
Babel42 (Open Source)
Babel42 is the free, open source project. Use it locally or in CI to validate your ROS2 workspace. Community support only.
Need product support or extended capabilities? Babel42 Pro is the commercial option.
Static checks
- Dependency checks — find_package / ament_target_dependencies vs package.xml
- Manifest checks — basic package.xml hygiene and completeness
- Launch checks — validate include graphs and missing packages
Outputs & CI
- CI-friendly check — fail builds based on severity thresholds
- SARIF export — integrate findings with code scanning tooling
- JSON exports — integrate results into dashboards
Babel42 Pro
Coming soon
Babel42 Pro is the commercial product with additional capabilities for teams that need more: product support from Elan8, extended analysis, dashboards, CI integration, and governance features. The exact feature set is still being defined. Contact us if you’d like to discuss your needs or be kept informed.
Contact us for Babel42 ProBabel42 vs Babel42 Pro
Babel42 (open source) gives you the core checks and exports. Run it locally or in CI, use it today. Community support only.
Babel42 Pro adds product support from Elan8 and extended features aimed at teams that need governance, compliance, and scale. Coming soon.
Live integration results
We run Babel42 nightly against a curated set of real-world ROS2 workspaces. The latest summary is available as JSON and rendered below.
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