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.

Facts

Segment: Development Platform
Country: United States
Founded: 2012
Website: https://www.openrobotics.org/

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Timeline

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
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. - source: therobotreport.com

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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.

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Relations

NVIDIA - Technology Partner - Open Robotics and NVIDIA collaborated on ROS 2 acceleration for Jetson and GPU systems.
Intrinsic - Acquired Company - Intrinsic acquired Open Source Robotics Corporation commercial assets while OSRF remained nonprofit steward of ROS, Gazebo and Open-RMF.

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