ROS-Industrial is in large parts compatible with ROS 1 and ROS 2. The community is currently porting most actively used packages to ROS 2.

ROS-Industrial is an open-source intiative with in the ROS ecosystem. Developed open-source code is licensed under permissible open-source licenses and can easily be integrated into products.

ROS usually runs on linux systems. Creating a real-time system based on a Linux system is difficult and requires configuration expertise.The ROS 2 stack which is basis of most actively used ROS-Industrial packages is real-time capable with the right configuration.

Yes! We desire for the ROS-I community to foster all manner of new businesses selling ROS-I compatible software nodes, development tools, GUIs, support and integration services.

In case you are willing to contribute to the ROS-Industrial initiave you are welcome to post issues or pull request on our repositories. You can as well take part in our monthly developer meetings and present ideas or developments or comment.

The ROS-Industrial initiative has its roots in industrial robotics, but many of the goals of the initiative also apply to other robotics sectors such as mobile robots and others.

The ROS-Industrial Consortium is supporting the ROS-Industrial initiative.

Members of the ROS-Industrial Consortium are providing technical support for various parts of the ROS ecosystem.