Isaac ROS 5.0 brings AI agents to robotics development, says NVIDIA
Isaac ROS 5.0 is already being used by companies including Intrinsic, Mentee Robotics, EKUMEN, and Flexiv. | Source: NVIDIA NVIDIA Corp. today released Isaac ROS 5.0, its latest collection of GPU-accelerated packages built on the Robot Operating System open framework. The company announced the release at the ROSCon conference in Toronto. The release brings new agentic workflows and platform support to help developers build, customize, and deploy robotics applications faster. “The goal is to make
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NVIDIA released Isaac ROS 5.0, a collection of GPU-accelerated software packages designed to help developers build robotics applications using the open-source Robot Operating System framework. The new version introduces AI agents that can automate repetitive development tasks like environment setup and fine-tuning, along with new tools for object detection and manipulation workflows. The release addresses what NVIDIA describes as friction points in robotics development, such as complex setup processes and lengthy deployment timelines. Isaac ROS 5.0 is already being used by multiple companies and includes support for the latest ROS 2 platform and Ubuntu operating system, allowing developers to accelerate demanding robotics workloads using GPU computing.
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