NVIDIA ships Isaac ROS 5.0 with agentic workflows for 1.3M ROS developers
nordicinst · x · 2026-09-22
NVIDIA released Isaac ROS 5.0 at ROSCon in Toronto, bringing AI agent capabilities to the ROS ecosystem for its 1.3M users. Key points: new agentic workflows for human-AI co-development; support for ROS Lyrical and Ubuntu 24.04; expanded open source physical AI libraries; deployment across the Jetson platform. The release pairs GPU-accelerated packages and production-ready libraries with ROS 2 to speed up building robots that perceive, reason and act.
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