MoveIt Motion Planning Framework

GSoC 2024 - MuJoCo support for ROS 2 MoveIt

Thu, 22 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

As part of GSoC 2024, I have been working on MuJoCo support for ROS 2 and MoveIt with the help of three mentors: Henning Kayser, David Yackzan, and Paul Gesel. All my work is located in either mujoco_ros2_control or mujoco_ros2_control_examples repositories.

Google Summer of Code : Zenoh Support & Benchmarking

Mon, 19 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

We’ve completed our project titled “Zenoh Support & Benchmarking”. With this project, investigated how rmw_zenoh would be used in MoveIt 2 and how rmw_zenoh would affect MoveIt’s runtime performance.

New MoveIt LTS release for ROS 2 Jazzy!

Sun, 30 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

We are very excited to announce that MoveIt 2 Jazzy is finally here. The newest LTS release Jazzy 2.10 will take Humble’s place as the recommended MoveIt version. It can be installed using the ROS Debian binaries (available with the upcoming Jazzy sync) on Ubuntu Noble 24.04, or through a Linux source build. The same version has also been released for Rolling Ridley.

Google Summer of Code Contributor Introductions

Fri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

2024 Google Summer of Code Contributor Introductions

MoveIt 2 Planning Pipeline Refactoring

Mon, 25 Mar 2024 00:01:00 +0000

Introduction & Background

MoveIt Pro Open Core - Building and Supporting Open Source Software for the Future

Thu, 22 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

PickNik has been, and continues to be, a major advocate for Open Source Software (OSS) for robotics - our company mission is to enable robotics companies through robust platforms for manipulation applications in real-world environments. We continue to believe that open source allows for more creativity, more productivity, and more robots in the world.

Introducing MoveIt Pro: Rapid Robotics Application Development for Unstructured Environments

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

We are excited to announce MoveIt Pro, a new name for our flagship product. Previously known as MoveIt Studio, we are changing the product’s name to MoveIt Pro to better align with the capabilities and value that MoveIt Pro delivers.

Announcing a new example application with MoveIt Pro: Warehouse Bin Picking

Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:01:00 +0000

Flexible & Fast For Any Brand of Robot Arm

MoveItCon 2023 Recap

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

On October 17, 2023, PickNik invited the wider MoveIt Open Source Community and robot enthusiasts to a MoveIt-centered micro-conference at “The Troubadour” hotel in New Orleans. The date was picked just one day before ROSCon 2023, and the venue was located nearby to facilitate the attendance of ROS community members.

GSoC 2023: MoveIt Servo and IK Benchmarking

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Today, I am happy to share the great work from our 2023 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) contributors. From all the great applications we received, this year we selected two engineers to work on open-source projects related to MoveIt.