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NVIDIA said that its latest release, Isaac 5.0, brings AI agent capabilities to the ROS developer ecosystem while expanding open source physical AI libraries and deployment across the NVIDIA Jetson platform.
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NVIDIA
NVIDIA said that its latest release, Isaac 5.0, brings AI agent capabilities to the ROS developer ecosystem while expanding open source physical AI libraries and deployment across the NVIDIA Jetson platform.
NVIDIA announced the release of Isaac ROS 5.0, a collection of GPU-accelerated packages built on ROS, at the ROSCon conference in Toronto.
The ROS open framework is a project from Open Robotics that helps humans build robots.
The company said that Isaac 5.0 helps humans and AI agents build robots together.
To build and deploy sophisticated robotics applications that can perceive, reason and act in dynamic environments, NVIDIA said that developers need new physical AI models and tools.
The company said that the release introduces new agentic workflows and platform support to help developers build, customize and deploy robotics applications faster.
NVIDIA said that ROS provides the open-source foundation for much of modern robotics development, giving developers common tools, libraries and standards for building and connecting robot applications.
NVIDIA said that Isaac ROS brings NVIDIA accelerated computing, physical AI models and production-ready libraries to the nearly 1.3 million ROS users, helping developers build high-performance robotics applications using free, familiar, open-source tools.
The company said that AI agents are changing how software is built, helping developers automate repetitive tasks, navigate complex codebases and move from ideas to working applications faster. NVIDIA said that Isaac ROS 5.0 brings these capabilities to robotics development.
Isaac ROS 5.0 introduces support for ROS Lyrical and Ubuntu 24.04, giving developers a path to adopt the latest ROS platform while continuing to accelerate demanding robotics workloads with NVIDIA accelerated computing. NVIDIA said that it worked with the Open Source Robotics Alliance to contribute a standard data-handling interface to ROS Lyrical that helps robotics software work efficiently across different computing hardware, including GPUs.
NVIDIA said that Isaac 5.0 is available to the entire ROS community and it gives developers a consistent way to accelerate demanding robotics applications, with CUDA providing a working example for GPU acceleration.
The company said that new NVIDIA Isaac skills for setup and manipulation provide reusable workflows that developers and AI agents can use to complete robotics development tasks. NVIDIA added that agent-ready documentation also makes it easier for AI agents to understand Isaac ROS tools and workflows, turning developer intent into working applications faster.
Click here to learn more about Isaac ROS 5.0 and the robotics companies that are already extending this agentic approach to development workflows.
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