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/

Market context

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  • PickNik - stack adjacency - stack: Autonomy Software Platform
  • Flexion - stack adjacency - stack: Autonomy Software Platform
  • Covariant - stack adjacency - stack: Robot Learning Platforms

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Timeline

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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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