Open Robotics

Open Robotics / 开源机器人基金会OSRFAdvanced

The US nonprofit that maintains ROS, Gazebo, and other open-source robotics software.

Founded in 2012 as a spinout from the robotics lab Willow Garage, Open Robotics is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and is the public-facing name of the Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF). It maintains the Robot Operating System (ROS, the most widely used communication and tooling framework for robot software), the Gazebo simulator, and the multi-robot fleet framework Open-RMF. In December 2022, Intrinsic — a robotics company under Google's parent Alphabet — acquired its for-profit subsidiary OSRC, while the foundation itself kept operating independently. In April 2024 it launched the Open Source Robotics Alliance (OSRA), a membership program to fund ROS and related projects long-term. For newcomers, installing ROS 2, reading its docs, or checking a release roadmap will eventually lead back to a site or repository that Open Robotics maintains.

ExampleThe release schedule and official docs for every ROS 2 distribution (such as Humble or Jazzy) are maintained under OSRF's lead.

Also called: Open Source Robotics Foundation, OSRF
Related: Robot Operating System · Robot Operating System 2 · Gazebo · Willow Garage · Intrinsic (Alphabet) · Fleet Management System (e.g. Open-RMF)
Sources: Open Robotics - Wikipedia
As of: 2024-04