Brian Gerkey 2/3/22 Brian Gerkey 2/3/22

ROS…in…space!

If you joined us for ROS World 2021 back in October, then you saw the excellent keynote presentation from Kim Hambuchen at NASA Johnson Space Center, in which she talked about many of the ways that NASA has benefitted from ROS. Inspired by Dr. Hambuchen's presentation, let's take a quick tour of ROS-based space applications.

Open Robotics 1/27/22 Open Robotics 1/27/22

Keeping the lights on

You know Open Robotics as a hub of the global robotics industry through our open software and hardware platforms for robotics. But many wonder how we operate and grow as a business. We do these things by offering a wide array of research, development, and consulting services to industry and government customers around the world. We design our customer engagements so that we can share key results in open source solutions for the benefit of the global robotics community.

Open Robotics 11/17/21 Open Robotics 11/17/21

ROS.org Refresh and New Video

After a decade we finally updated ros.org and made a new ROS explainer video.

Open Robotics 10/27/21 Open Robotics 10/27/21

A Common Language for Robot Interoperability

For over three years, we have been collaborating on the Open Robotics Middleware Framework (Open-RMF); a free, open source, modular software system that coordinates multiple fleets of indoor and outdoor robots and integrates them with elevators/lifts, doors and other infrastructure.

10/11/21 10/11/21

Ignition Fortress Released

The simulation team at Open Robotics is happy to announce another major release of Ignition, codenamed Edifice! This is the fifth major release of Ignition, following Dome, Citadel, Blueprint and Acropolis.

Open Robotics 10/6/21 Open Robotics 10/6/21

DARPA SubT Final Competition

Open Robotics 9/30/21 Open Robotics 9/30/21

The Virtual RobotX competition is back

Brian Gerkey 9/22/21 Brian Gerkey 9/22/21

Connecting ROS 2 and Ignition with NVIDIA hardware and software

Open Robotics 8/24/21 Open Robotics 8/24/21

Announcing the Sense, Think, Act Podcast

Announcing a new robotics podcast by Open Robotics

Open Robotics 8/19/21 Open Robotics 8/19/21

ROSCon 2021 Canceled / ROS World 2021 Announced

Open Robotics 8/11/21 Open Robotics 8/11/21

ROS 2 Rolling Ridley Logo & Swag

Open Robotics 7/26/21 Open Robotics 7/26/21

Upcoming Events for August

Open Robotics 7/20/21 Open Robotics 7/20/21

2021 NIST manufacturing Results Announced

Results from the 2021 NIST ARIAC Competition.

Open Robotics 7/6/21 Open Robotics 7/6/21

ROSCon proposals due July 9th

Open Robotics 6/22/21 Open Robotics 6/22/21

Back to the office!

Open Robotics 6/9/21 Open Robotics 6/9/21

Google Summer of Code 2021

Open Robotics 6/2/21 Open Robotics 6/2/21

Open Robotics Turns 9

5/24/21 5/24/21

ROS 2 Galactic Geochelone Release

We’re happy to announce the seventh release of ROS 2, Galactic Geochelone. Galactic Geochelone is an interim release between ROS 2 long term support (LTS) releases and will be supported until November 2022. It is the second ROS 2 release to target Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa).

4/20/21 4/20/21

Google Season of Docs 2021: Call for Students

4/6/21 4/6/21

Hardened ROS with 10 year security from Open Robotics and Canonical

Canonical and Open Robotics announced today a partnership for Robot Operating System (ROS) Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) and enterprise support, as part of Ubuntu Advantage, Canonical’s service package for Ubuntu. ROS support will be made available as an option to Ubuntu Advantage support customers. As a result, users already taking advantage of critical security updates and Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) fixes now have a single point of contact to guarantee timely and high quality fixes for ROS.