Clarifying how MoveIt balances the need for stability and development in the ROS ecosystem.
MoveIt 2 now features a completely new implementation of the optimization-based planner STOMP.
MoveIt's GSoC 2023 participants have been selected!
Join MoveIt in GSoC 2023 for exciting robotics projects, gain hands-on experience, and contribute to open-source!
A new Python library is now available for MoveIt 2.
A new parallel planning interface for moveit_cpp in MoveIt 2 with solution selection and stopping criterion callbacks.
Enable robotics engineers to more quickly build advanced applications that include manipulator arms.
PickNik is excited to announce the release of the generate_parameter_library ROS package, which has been developed to address many of the issues the Move...
Inverse kinematics has been overhauled in MoveIt Servo
The MoveIt community is proud to announce the new release of MoveIt 2, 2.5.2 for Rolling and Humble
The MoveIt community is proud to announce the release of MoveIt 2 Humble
Two students selected for 2022 Google Summer of Code projects
Robowflex a high-level C++ library for MoveIt
Constrained motion planning for aerospace applications
For the 3rd time MoveIt will be a Google Summer of Code mentor organization
Recap and links to videos
Join the 2022 MoveIt community meeting
Report on our recent hackathon to improve the MoveIt tutorials
Nov 26 - Dec 16
Nov 5 - Nov 25
Mobile Manipulation with MoveIt 2 Workshop at ROS World 2021
The MoveIt community is proud to announce the release of MoveIt 2.2 Galactic
What new features are only available in MoveIt 2
Noetic 1.1.4 Update May 2021
Noetic 1.1.2 Update April 2021
Review of World MoveIt Day 2021
Announcing the release of MoveIt‼ 3 for ROS 3!
Lightning talks from World MoveIt Day 2021
For the 2nd time MoveIt will be a google summer of code mentor organization
The sixth annual World MoveIt Day is going virtual on Wednesday, March 10th, 2021
In case you missed it, watch a replay of the MoveIt Workshop 2019 Macau.
Progress update and learnings about the MoveIt 2 Migration progress as shared at the TSC in December 2020.
The MoveIt Maintainers are excited to announce a new plug-in for Pilz Industrial Motion Planner for MoveIt.
The MoveIt session at ROS World 2020 is available to watch.
The collision checking library Bullet is now available in MoveIt.
We are happy to announce a minor release of MoveIt in Noetic along with many of the related packages.
We are proud to announce that MoveIt is now available as an official package for the latest, and last version of ROS 1.0, ROS Noetic.
Grasping using Deep Learning now available in the MoveIt Task Constructor
Integrating OMPL's constrained planning capabilities into MoveIt
MoveIt Servo (formerly JogArm) is now available in ROS 2 Foxy Fitzroy.
MoveIt 2 Released for ROS 2 Foxy
Hand-eye calibration capability is now available in the new MoveIt Calibration
A new release of MoveIt for Melodic
A brief selection of robotics research that was enabled by MoveIt
Thanks to recent work by Microsoft's Windows IoT team, in collaboration with PickNik Robotics, preliminary support for Windows 10 IoT is now available fo...
Results from our fifth annual international hackathon to improve the MoveIt code base, documentation, and community.
The ROS-Industrial team leveraged MoveIt 2 for their Collaborative Robotic Sanding Application.
A new release of the Open Motion Planning Library, now with even more planning algorithms!
MoveIt has been selected as a mentor organization for the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) this summer!
The fifth annual World MoveIt Day is going virtual on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2020!
MoveItCon 2020 New Orleans
Checkout this new open source feature and tutorial for task planning
Popular motion planning software now available on ROS 2
Results from our fourth annual international hackathon to improve the MoveIt code base, documentation, and community.
Bringing a major new feature to MoveIt: a grasping library for manipulation
The fourth annual World MoveIt Day will be Wednesday, November 20th, 2019!
First annual developer meeting, co-located with ROSCon
We are pleased to announce that MoveIt was reselected for a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) grant.
The ROS 2 port MoveIt2's Alpha is here with the help of Acutronic Robotics in collaberation with PickNik
In celebration of the MoveIt 1.0 release we requested feedback from the community via a MoveIt survey.
Boston-area startup Realtime Robotics has just released RapidPlan, its innovative solution for collision-free motion planning and we’re happy to announce...
Announcing a Move Group Cartesian planning capability built with Descartes
Now that MoveIt 1.0 is officially released, we are polling the community of MoveIt users to get feedback about MoveIt.
MoveIt has been in beta since 2013 (6 years), but today we're excited to announce MoveIt is all grown up. We are releasing MoveIt 1.0 for ROS Melodic.
Exciting news – the MoveIt! port to ROS 2.0 has begun! We are happy to announce that [Acutronic Robotics](https://acutronicrobotics.com/) is partnering w...
Following last October's World MoveIt! Day, the first-ever MoveIt! China Developer Workshop 2019 was successfully held on Jan 16th in Suzhou, China.
We’re excited to announce that MoveIt! China Developer Workshop will be held on Jan 16, 2019 in Suzhou, China, as follow up of 2018 World MoveIt! Day (WMD)!
Updates about the perception pipeline improvements from GSOC
Results from our third annual international hackathon to improve the MoveIt! code base, documentation, and community.
Updates for motion planners in MoveIt!
Summary of Google Summer of Code improvements to the MoveIt! Setup Assistant.
Join us at ROSCon Madrid this year to meet your fellow developers, bring your ideas, and ask pressing questions about MoveIt!.
We are excited to announce that this year’s World MoveIt! Day will be Thursday, October 25, 2018! The event is a day long international hackathon to impr...
MoveIt! is now released into ROS Melodic LTS (Long Term Support)!
We are excited to announce that MoveIt! was selected for 3 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) grants for the summer of 2018.
In recent years there has been a migration related to ROS discussions, Q&A, and collaboration to ROS Discourse. Inspired by ROS-Industrial's migratio...
We are excited to announce that the robotic arm manufacturer Franka Emika is partnering with PickNik to sponsor a MoveIt! codesprint to further improve M...
Results from our second annual international hackathon to improve the MoveIt! code base, documentation, and community.
Join us for an international hackathon to improve the MoveIt! code base, documentation, and community.
MoveIt! is 5 years old!
First update for Indigo since 6 months ago including many features.
MoveIt! is now released into ROS Kinetic LTS (Long Term Support)! Kinetic is now the recommended ROS version that comes with the newest capabilities and ...
Watch video of the second MoveIt! Community Meeting in case you missed it.
The second MoveIt! community meeting will be on October 27th at 8am Pacific to discuss the latest developments and uses of MoveIt! around the world.
If you’re running your robot packages with ROS Jade, and/or if you want to try the newest MoveIt!, start at moveit.ros.org/install
Results from our first international hackathon to improve the MoveIt! code base, documentation, and community.
Team Delft, a team of scientists and engineers from the TU Delft Robotics Institute and Delft Robotics, won the 2016 edition of the Amazon Picking Challe...
Come meet MoveIt! developers and users at IROS 2015 in Hamburg...
Come meet MoveIt! developers and users at RoboBusiness 2015 in San Jose...
Watch video of the First MoveIt! Community Meeting in case you missed it. Thank you for coming to the MoveIt! Community Meeting and thanks to the present...
MoveIt! on an underwater Girona500 AUV robot and 4-DOF arm for autonomous underwater manipulation...
The 2015 IEEE ICRA conference featured a large number of participants and huge crowds at the exhibits and competitions. The Amazon Picking Challenge in p...
MoveIt! will be at ICRA 2015. Catch MoveIt! developers and users at the following:...
From factory assembly lines to warehouses and living rooms, robots are always expanding their role in our lives. Both hardware and software are critical ...
Sachin Chitta gave an update on MoveIt! in the ROS-I community meeting recently. The meeting had over 100 participants from academia and industry. Other ...
Amazon's automated warehouses are successful at removing much of the walking and searching for items within a warehouse. However, commercially viable aut...
Alten Mechatronics recently used the motion planners available with MoveIt! for a new application with path planning for Transmission Electron Microscope...
Risto Kojcev, a joint PhD student between the BioRobotics Institute at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and MicroBio Robotics Institute at the Italian Institut...
The Shadow Robot Company has released the RoNex series of products based on an industrial strength fieldbus. The RoNex modules come natively with ROS dri...
Jun Seo, at the GRASP Lab in the University of Pennsylvania, has been working on integrating MoveIt! with the CKBot robotic platform. CKBot is a modular ...
New ROS survey results are out and MoveIt! scored high on the list of ROS packages important to users.
HoLLiE is an Acronym for “House of Living Labs intelligent Escort“ and was developed at the FZI Karlsruhe as part of the “House of Living Labs” (HoLL).
The MoveIt! development team would like to wish you a very happy new year and bring new tidings.
The results of the MoveIt! survey are in.
MoveIt! was demonstrated at RoboBusiness 2013 and the ROS-Industrial Consortium Meeting.
We are polling the community to get technical feedback about MoveIt!.
In August 2013, the MoveIt! team demonstrated pick and place with the PR2 robot.
The ICRA 2015 Tutorial on Motion Planning is intended to expose both novice and expert users to the most recent developments, both theoretical and practi...
Our trip to ICRA and ROSCON 2013 was a grand success. The highlight - MoveIt! is released.
