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ROS - Robot Operating System

The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a set of software libraries and tools that help you build robot applications. From drivers to state-of-the-art algorithms, and with powerful developer tools, ROS has what you need for your next robotics project. And it's all open source.

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Kilted Kaiju

Kilted Kaiju is our latest ROS 2 short-term release targeted at Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) and Windows 10, though other systems are supported to varying degrees.

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Jazzy Jalisco

Jazzy Jalisco is our latest ROS 2 LTS release targeted at Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) and Windows 10, though other systems are supported to varying degrees.

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Support

There are several mechanisms in place to support the ROS community, each with its own purpose.

Documentation

Documentation and tutorials for ROS 2

Stack Exchange

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Zulip Chat

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Documentation

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Robotics Stack Exchange

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Recent Updates and Highlights

ROSCon 2025 Recordings Now Available

See the ROSCon 2025 website for details

12/01/2025 - Katherine Scott

Recordings from ROSCon 2025 are now available on our Vimeo account the ROSCon website, in the ROS Documentation, and in the list below. We’re still waiting on talk slides, but we’ll get those up just as soon as we can. We would like to thank AMD for being our 2025 ROSCon video sponsor. Their generous support makes the ROSCon live stream and videos possible.

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Recent Open Robotics Discourse Posts

ROS 2 Kilted Running Natively on macOS Apple Silicon

12/08/2025 - Open Robotics Discourse

Announcing synchros2 from the RAI Institute!

12/08/2025 - Open Robotics Discourse

ROS News for the Week of December 2nd, 2025

12/05/2024 Open Robotics Discourse

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