NVIDIA launches Isaac ROS 5.0 with agentic workflows and Isaac Skills for robotics
kamathsblog · x · 2026-09-23
At ROSCon, NVIDIA released Isaac ROS 5.0, bringing AI agent capabilities to the 1.3M-user ROS ecosystem. The release adds agentic workflows and Isaac Skills, supports ROS 2 Lyrical and Ubuntu 24.04, ships GPU-accelerated libraries, and covers Jetson hardware from Orin Nano to Thor. It is open source and available now.
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