Open Robotics
About
About Open Robotics
Open Robotics is the operating name of the Open Source Robotics Foundation, the nonprofit organisation that develops and maintains core open robotics infrastructure. Its principal projects include ROS for robot application software, Gazebo for physics-based simulation, ros-controls for real-time hardware interfaces and Open-RMF for coordinating fleets, doors, lifts and shared building resources.
These projects sit below individual robot applications: manufacturers use ROS packages and drivers to connect sensors, actuators and planning software; developers test behaviour in Gazebo; and operators use Open-RMF to manage heterogeneous robots in common facilities. The foundation also runs build farms, continuous integration and release infrastructure that lets open-source packages be distributed across supported platforms. Commercial companies can build proprietary products on the stack while contributing drivers, middleware and improvements back to the shared codebase.
Team
- Brian Gerkey - Chairman of the Board - Gerkey provides board leadership for Open Robotics with long-running stewardship of ROS, Gazebo, Open-RMF, and the wider robotics software community.
- Vanessa Yamzon Orsi - Chief Executive Officer - Orsi leads Open Robotics as it stewards ROS, Gazebo, and related open-source robotics infrastructure.
- Geoffrey Biggs - Chief Technical Officer - Biggs leads technical direction for Open Robotics' open-source robotics software work, including ROS and Open-RMF related infrastructure.
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 - 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 - 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 - 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, navigation and simulation applications.
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Relations
Relationships
- NVIDIA
Technology Partner - Open Robotics and NVIDIA collaborated on ROS 2 acceleration for Jetson and GPU systems.
- Qualcomm
Robotics Rb5 Ecosystem Partner - Open Robotics participates in the Qualcomm Robotics RB5 ecosystem.
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