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Yes, it is possible. One of the most widely used methods for accomplishing this is using rosbridge. There are lots of clients for rosbridge in many different programming languages. So, you can run rosbridge_server in your ROS1 computer and then use a rosbridge_client of your preference in your non-ROS computer.

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