Open Robotics

Open Robotics develops and stewards open-source robotics software including ROS and Gazebo. Its tools are widely used by researchers, developers and companies building robot applications.

Market context

Open Robotics is directly relevant as foundational software infrastructure for robot development, simulation and deployment.

Facts

Website: https://www.openrobotics.org/
HQ: Mountain View, United States
Founded: 2012
Segment: autonomy software

Events

2023-09-26 - Capability - 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. The event adds concrete context for industrial automation, construc…
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. The transaction changes the company capital base, ownersh…
2021-10-20 - Partnership - Open Robotics and NVIDIA collaborate on ROS 2 acceleration - The collaboration connected ROS 2 with NVIDIA Isaac and Jetson robotics development workflows. The work targeted robotics developers building perception, navigation and simulation applications. The event adds concrete context for industrial automation, constr…

Operations / Deployments

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. The transaction changes the company capital base, ownersh…

Relationships

Intrinsic - Acquired Company - Intrinsic acquired Open Source Robotics Corporation commercial assets while OSRF remained nonprofit steward of ROS, Gazebo and Open-RMF.

Context tags

Autonomy software platform - Stack Layer - Profile QA supports Autonomy software platform.
Robot learning platforms - Stack Layer - Profile QA supports Robot learning platforms.

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