# Step 1: Robot MCP Client Setup

[Robot MCP Client](https://github.com/robotmcp/robot-mcp-client) is a lightweight terminal-based client for interacting with the MCP server without desktop LLM applications.

It supports the following LLMs, running natively in the terminal:

- **Anthropic:** Claude Sonnet 4.5
- **OpenAI:** GPT-4.1
- **Google Gemini:** Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite
- **Groq (open-source models):**
  - Llama 4 Scout 17B
  - Llama 3.1 8B Instant
  - Llama 3.3 70B Versatile
  - OpenAI GPT-OSS 120B

## Setup

See the [Robot MCP Client repository](https://github.com/robotmcp/robot-mcp-client) for installation and usage instructions.

## Next Step

Set up rosbridge on the machine where ROS is running: [Step 2: Rosbridge Setup](../rosbridge.md)

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