Software and middleware

ROS-Industrial

Name: ROS-Industrial
Brand: ROS-Industrial Consortium (Southwest Research Institute ; consortiums sœurs Fraunhofer IPA et ARTC/NTU)

United States

ROS-Industrial bridges the ROS ecosystem to industrial manipulators and factory automation hardware: drivers, MoveIt configurations, training material, CI tooling. It has no single licence or version number : it is dozens of separately versioned repositories under regional member-funded consortia rather than one company.

Updated 2026-10-11 · Last verified 2026-10-07

OrganizationROS-Industrial Consortium (Southwest Research Institute ; consortiums sœurs Fraunhofer IPA et ARTC/NTU)

CategoryMiddleware

LicenseVarious (business-friendly open-source licenses; many repositories use Apache-2.0)

Open sourceyes

ROSyes

First release2012

GovernanceConsortiums régionaux à adhésion payante, pour les Amériques (SwRI depuis 2013), l'Europe (Fraunhofer IPA) et l'Asie-Pacifique (ARTC/NTU), qui orientent la feuille de route par des projets techniques financés par leurs membres ; le code reste publié en open source.

Trajectory

The dated, sourced shifts in this project's life: licence, governance, archival, a component opening up. What the brick did, not what it announces.

January 2012 First release Opening

Shaun Edwards, at Southwest Research Institute, creates the ROS-Industrial open-source repository, to bring ROS to industrial robot controllers.
March 2013 Governance Neutral

The ROS-Industrial Consortium Americas is launched under Southwest Research Institute: a repository becomes a membership body, funded by its industrial members.

Sources: ROS-Industrial Consortium (official site) (2026-08-27)GitHub, official ROS-Industrial organisation (2026-08-27)

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