Open Robotics Timeline

Events

• 2023-09-26 - Product Launch - Open Robotics releases Gazebo Harmonic simulation platform - The release added capabilities for robotics developers building and testing simulated systems. Gazebo Harmonic represented a major annual release of the open-source robotics simulation stack. - source: openrobotics.org
• 2022-12-15 - Acquisition - Intrinsic acquires Open Robotics commercial subsidiaries - OSRF remained independent and continued stewardship of ROS, Gazebo, Open-RMF and related community projects. The transaction moved Open Robotics’ for-profit engineering teams and assets into Intrinsic. - source: openrobotics.org
• 2022-12-15 - Acquisition - Intrinsic acquires the business of Open Source Robotics Corporation - Brian Gerkey and members of the OSRC team joined Intrinsic, while OSRF remained the independent nonprofit steward of ROS, Gazebo and Open-RMF. The transaction expanded Intrinsic's developer and open-source robotics ecosystem footprint. - source: intrinsic.ai
• 2021-10-20 - Partnership - Open Robotics and NVIDIA collaborate on ROS 2 acceleration - Open Robotics and NVIDIA collaborated to improve ROS 2 performance on Jetson edge AI and GPU systems. The collaboration connected ROS 2 with NVIDIA Isaac and Jetson robotics development workflows. The work targeted robotics developers building perception… - source: therobotreport.com