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March 20, 2023

MoveIt Participating in Google Summer of Code 2023 – Apply Now!

Join MoveIt in GSoC 2023 for exciting robotics projects, gain hands-on experience, and contribute to open-source!

February 15, 2023

Parallel Planning with MoveIt 2

A new parallel planning interface for moveit_cpp in MoveIt 2 with solution selection and stopping criterion callbacks.

August 16, 2022

Announcing MoveIt Studio Developer Platform

Enable robotics engineers to more quickly build advanced applications that include manipulator arms.

July 22, 2022

Declarative ROS 2 Parameters

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...

July 22, 2022

MoveIt Servo Inverse Kinematics Improvements

Inverse kinematics has been overhauled in MoveIt Servo

July 15, 2022

MoveIt 2.5.2 Release for Rolling and Humble

The MoveIt community is proud to announce the new release of MoveIt 2, 2.5.2 for Rolling and Humble

June 02, 2022

MoveIt 2 Humble Release

The MoveIt community is proud to announce the release of MoveIt 2 Humble

May 20, 2022

2022 Google Summer of Code Students

Two students selected for 2022 Google Summer of Code projects

May 05, 2022

Robowflex for MoveIt

Robowflex a high-level C++ library for MoveIt

April 20, 2022

MoveIt for Aerospace Automation Tasks

Constrained motion planning for aerospace applications

March 15, 2022

MoveIt Selected for Google Summer of Code 2022

For the 3rd time MoveIt will be a Google Summer of Code mentor organization

March 02, 2022

Recap of the 2022 MoveIt Community Meeting

Recap and links to videos

February 15, 2022

2022 MoveIt Community Meeting

Join the 2022 MoveIt community meeting

January 20, 2022

2022 MoveIt Doc-A-Thon

Report on our recent hackathon to improve the MoveIt tutorials

December 17, 2021

MoveIt Sprint Report

Nov 26 - Dec 16

November 30, 2021

MoveIt Sprint Report

Nov 5 - Nov 25

October 29, 2021

Hands-on training with MoveIt 2 and the Stretch...

Mobile Manipulation with MoveIt 2 Workshop at ROS World 2021

July 08, 2021

MoveIt 2.2 Galactic Release

The MoveIt community is proud to announce the release of MoveIt 2.2 Galactic

June 08, 2021

MoveIt 2 Status Update and Feature Comparison

What new features are only available in MoveIt 2

May 13, 2021

MoveIt Noetic Update

Noetic 1.1.4 Update May 2021

April 15, 2021

MoveIt Noetic Update

Noetic 1.1.2 Update April 2021

April 04, 2021

World MoveIt Day 2021 Review

Review of World MoveIt Day 2021

April 01, 2021

Announcing the MoveIt‼ 3 Release

Announcing the release of MoveIt‼ 3 for ROS 3!

March 22, 2021

World MoveIt Day 2021 Lightning Talks

Lightning talks from World MoveIt Day 2021

March 11, 2021

MoveIt Selected for Google Summer of Code 2021

For the 2nd time MoveIt will be a google summer of code mentor organization

January 15, 2021

Join us for World MoveIt Day 2021!

The sixth annual World MoveIt Day is going virtual on Wednesday, March 10th, 2021

January 14, 2021

Videos from MoveIt Workshop 2019 Available on Y...

In case you missed it, watch a replay of the MoveIt Workshop 2019 Macau.

December 21, 2020

MoveIt for ROS 2 Migration Update

Progress update and learnings about the MoveIt 2 Migration progress as shared at the TSC in December 2020.

December 17, 2020

Introducing the New Pilz Industrial Motion Plan...

The MoveIt Maintainers are excited to announce a new plug-in for Pilz Industrial Motion Planner for MoveIt.

November 24, 2020

MoveIt at ROS World 2020 Recap

The MoveIt session at ROS World 2020 is available to watch.

November 18, 2020

Integrating Bullet for Collision Detection

The collision checking library Bullet is now available in MoveIt.

October 13, 2020

Announcing MoveIt 1.1.1 Release for ROS Noetic

We are happy to announce a minor release of MoveIt in Noetic along with many of the related packages.

September 28, 2020

MoveIt is now officially available in ROS Noetic

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.

September 28, 2020

Grasping using Deep Learning

Grasping using Deep Learning now available in the MoveIt Task Constructor

September 10, 2020

A new approach for planning with path constrain...

Integrating OMPL's constrained planning capabilities into MoveIt

September 09, 2020

Introducing MoveIt Servo in ROS 2

MoveIt Servo (formerly JogArm) is now available in ROS 2 Foxy Fitzroy.

September 04, 2020

MoveIt 2 is out of Beta!

MoveIt 2 Released for ROS 2 Foxy

August 26, 2020

New MoveIt Calibration Capabilities from Intel

Hand-eye calibration capability is now available in the new MoveIt Calibration

August 04, 2020

MoveIt Melodic Release (1.0.5)

A new release of MoveIt for Melodic

July 24, 2020

MoveIt Research Roundup

A brief selection of robotics research that was enabled by MoveIt

July 14, 2020

MoveIt now available on Windows

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...

June 26, 2020

World MoveIt Day 2020 Recap

Results from our fifth annual international hackathon to improve the MoveIt code base, documentation, and community.

June 09, 2020

MoveIt 2 Used on Collaborative Robotic Sanding ...

The ROS-Industrial team leveraged MoveIt 2 for their Collaborative Robotic Sanding Application.

June 05, 2020

OMPL 1.5.0 released for ROS 1 Noetic

A new release of the Open Motion Planning Library, now with even more planning algorithms!

May 05, 2020

MoveIt GSoC 2020 Projects Announcement

MoveIt has been selected as a mentor organization for the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) this summer!

April 28, 2020

Join us for World MoveIt Day 2020!

The fifth annual World MoveIt Day is going virtual on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2020!

April 22, 2020

Save the Date: MoveItCon 2020 on Nov 17th

MoveItCon 2020 New Orleans

February 25, 2020

Announcing the MoveIt Task Constructor

Checkout this new open source feature and tutorial for task planning

February 18, 2020

MoveIt 2 Beta Release Announcement

Popular motion planning software now available on ROS 2

December 26, 2019

World MoveIt Day 2019 Recap

Results from our fourth annual international hackathon to improve the MoveIt code base, documentation, and community.

November 18, 2019

PickNik and Rapyuta Team Up to Release MoveIt G...

Bringing a major new feature to MoveIt: a grasping library for manipulation

November 13, 2019

World MoveIt Day 2019

The fourth annual World MoveIt Day will be Wednesday, November 20th, 2019!

September 19, 2019

MoveIt Workshop 2019 Macau

First annual developer meeting, co-located with ROSCon

June 12, 2019

The MoveIt Project is Reselected for a GSoC Grant

We are pleased to announce that MoveIt was reselected for a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) grant.

May 31, 2019

Announcing MoveIt 2 Alpha Release

The ROS 2 port MoveIt2's Alpha is here with the help of Acutronic Robotics in collaberation with PickNik

May 28, 2019

2019 MoveIt Survey Results

In celebration of the MoveIt 1.0 release we requested feedback from the community via a MoveIt survey.

April 16, 2019

Announcing Realtime Robotics RapidPlan Integration

Boston-area startup Realtime Robotics has just released RapidPlan, its innovative solution for collision-free motion planning and we’re happy to announce...

April 12, 2019

MoveIt Descartes Integration

Announcing a Move Group Cartesian planning capability built with Descartes

April 08, 2019

2019 MoveIt Survey

Now that MoveIt 1.0 is officially released, we are polling the community of MoveIt users to get feedback about MoveIt.

March 08, 2019

Announcing MoveIt 1.0 and a Master Branch

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.

March 01, 2019

Announcing the MoveIt2 Port

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...

February 11, 2019

Report On MoveIt! China Developer Workshop 2019

Following last October's World MoveIt! Day, the first-ever MoveIt! China Developer Workshop 2019 was successfully held on Jan 16th in Suzhou, China.

January 04, 2019

Save the Date - MoveIt! China Developer Workshop

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)!

December 11, 2018

Google Summer Of Code Improvements to Perceptio...

Updates about the perception pipeline improvements from GSOC

November 20, 2018

Report On Third Annual World MoveIt! Day

Results from our third annual international hackathon to improve the MoveIt! code base, documentation, and community.

October 25, 2018

Google Summer Of Code Project Improvements to M...

Updates for motion planners in MoveIt!

October 23, 2018

Google Summer of Code Improvements to Setup Ass...

Summary of Google Summer of Code improvements to the MoveIt! Setup Assistant.

September 26, 2018

MoveIt! At ROSCon 2018

Join us at ROSCon Madrid this year to meet your fellow developers, bring your ideas, and ask pressing questions about MoveIt!.

August 03, 2018

Save the Date - World MoveIt! Day 2018

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...

May 23, 2018

MoveIt! officially released into ROS Melodic

MoveIt! is now released into ROS Melodic LTS (Long Term Support)!

May 08, 2018

The MoveIt! Project is Selected for 3 Google Su...

We are excited to announce that MoveIt! was selected for 3 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) grants for the summer of 2018.

April 16, 2018

MoveIt! Migrating from Google Groups to ROS Dis...

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...

February 26, 2018

Announcing MoveIt! Tutorials Codesprint with Fr...

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...

February 01, 2018

Report On Second Annual World MoveIt! Day

Results from our second annual international hackathon to improve the MoveIt! code base, documentation, and community.

September 20, 2017

MoveIt! Upcoming Events - World MoveIt! Day

Join us for an international hackathon to improve the MoveIt! code base, documentation, and community.

June 20, 2017

MoveIt! Montage 2017 is now available

MoveIt! is 5 years old!

March 15, 2017

Submit your videos for a 5 year MoveIt! video m...

MoveIt! is 5 years old!

January 03, 2017

First MoveIt! release in 2017 into ROS Indigo

First update for Indigo since 6 months ago including many features.

December 15, 2016

MoveIt! officially released into ROS Kinetic

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 ...

November 01, 2016

Video from the MoveIt! Community Meeting Oct 2016

Watch video of the second MoveIt! Community Meeting in case you missed it.

October 11, 2016

Second MoveIt! Community Meeting

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.

September 02, 2016

MoveIt! officially released into ROS Jade

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

August 28, 2016

Report on World MoveIt! Day

Results from our first international hackathon to improve the MoveIt! code base, documentation, and community.

August 22, 2016

Team Delft wins Amazon Picking Challenge using ...

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...

August 05, 2016

MoveIt! Upcoming Events - World MoveIt! Day

Join us for an international hackathon to improve the MoveIt! code base, documentation, and community.

September 28, 2015

MoveIt! Upcoming Events - IROS 2015

Come meet MoveIt! developers and users at IROS 2015 in Hamburg...

September 19, 2015

MoveIt! Upcoming Events - RoboBusiness 2015

Come meet MoveIt! developers and users at RoboBusiness 2015 in San Jose...

September 17, 2015

Report on First MoveIt! Community Meeting

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...

July 02, 2015

MoveIt! goes underwater!

MoveIt! on an underwater Girona500 AUV robot and 4-DOF arm for autonomous underwater manipulation...

June 03, 2015

ICRA 2015 Update

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...

May 24, 2015

See you at ICRA 2015

MoveIt! will be at ICRA 2015. Catch MoveIt! developers and users at the following:...

March 17, 2015

Versatile Manipulation: Baxter Robot with MoveI...

From factory assembly lines to warehouses and living rooms, robots are always expanding their role in our lives. Both hardware and software are critical ...

February 17, 2015

New PAL Mobile Manipulation Robot TIAGo runs Mo...

From factory assembly lines to warehouses and living rooms, robots are always expanding their role in our lives. Both hardware and software are critical ...

January 29, 2015

Update on MoveIt! in ROS-I Community Meeting

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 ...

January 29, 2015

The Amazon Picking Challenge

Amazon's automated warehouses are successful at removing much of the walking and searching for items within a warehouse. However, commercially viable aut...

January 29, 2015

Alten Mechatronics Applies Robotic Technology i...

Alten Mechatronics recently used the motion planners available with MoveIt! for a new application with path planning for Transmission Electron Microscope...

January 29, 2015

New Capabilities in MoveIt! - the Cartesian Pat...

Risto Kojcev, a joint PhD student between the BioRobotics Institute at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and MicroBio Robotics Institute at the Italian Institut...

August 05, 2014

RoNex and MoveIt!

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...

May 08, 2014

CKBot, Whole-arm Grasping and MoveIt!

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 ...

April 03, 2014

MoveIt! scores high in the ROS survey

New ROS survey results are out and MoveIt! scored high on the list of ROS packages important to users.

February 20, 2014

First new robot of 2014 - HoLLiE

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).

January 07, 2014

A New Year, A New Website, A New Movie

The MoveIt! development team would like to wish you a very happy new year and bring new tidings.

November 05, 2013

MoveIt! Survey Results (2013)

The results of the MoveIt! survey are in.

October 22, 2013

MoveIt! at RoboBusiness 2013

MoveIt! was demonstrated at RoboBusiness 2013 and the ROS-Industrial Consortium Meeting.

October 08, 2013

MoveIt! Survey

We are polling the community to get technical feedback about MoveIt!.

August 20, 2013

MoveIt! Pick and Place with the PR2 robot

In August 2013, the MoveIt! team demonstrated pick and place with the PR2 robot.

May 07, 2013

ICRA Motion Planning Tutorial 2013

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...

May 06, 2013

ICRA and ROSCON 2013 Trip Report

Our trip to ICRA and ROSCON 2013 was a grand success. The highlight - MoveIt! is released.

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