ROS 2 Jazzy Jalisco Released
The OSRF is are happy to announce the tenth release of ROS 2, Jazzy Jalisco, released on May the 23rd, 2024! Jazzy is a Long Term Support release that will be supported until the end of May, 2029.
ROS…in…space!
If you joined us for ROS World 2021 back in October, then you saw the excellent keynote presentation from Kim Hambuchen at NASA Johnson Space Center, in which she talked about many of the ways that NASA has benefitted from ROS. Inspired by Dr. Hambuchen's presentation, let's take a quick tour of ROS-based space applications.
Keeping the lights on
You know Open Robotics as a hub of the global robotics industry through our open software and hardware platforms for robotics. But many wonder how we operate and grow as a business. We do these things by offering a wide array of research, development, and consulting services to industry and government customers around the world. We design our customer engagements so that we can share key results in open source solutions for the benefit of the global robotics community.
ROS.org Refresh and New Video
After a decade we finally updated ros.org and made a new ROS explainer video.
Hardened ROS with 10 year security from Open Robotics and Canonical
Canonical and Open Robotics announced today a partnership for Robot Operating System (ROS) Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) and enterprise support, as part of Ubuntu Advantage, Canonical’s service package for Ubuntu. ROS support will be made available as an option to Ubuntu Advantage support customers. As a result, users already taking advantage of critical security updates and Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) fixes now have a single point of contact to guarantee timely and high quality fixes for ROS.