Nvidia releases Isaac ROS 5.0 with AI agents for robotics

Nvidia announced Isaac ROS 5.0 at ROSCon in Toronto, adding agentic workflows and platform support to its GPU-accelerated ROS packages. The release brings ROS 2 Lyrical and Ubuntu 24.04 support, setup and manipulation skills, and up to 5.5x faster object pose tracking with FoundationPose.

• Isaac ROS 5.0 targets nearly 1.3 million ROS users
• Adds support for ROS 2 Lyrical and Ubuntu 24.04
• FoundationPose speeds up object tracking up to 5.5x
• Used by Intrinsic, Mentee Robotics, EKUMEN and Flexiv