Hi all, it seems that there is interest in figuring out what to do ASAP for ROS2, which was not the point of this thread. I’ve started a topic for URDF2/SDF2 and I’ll link in the external discussions mentioned above so there is a good start for that.
It will be cleaner and clearer to discuss ROS2 things there.
Describing flexible link robots? Reconfigurable robots? Soft robots? Able to wrap your head around configuration languages, or why a shared object file with an API might make a good reuseable, shareable robot description? Continue below.