# NVIDIA — NVIDIA Isaac ROS 5.0 Advances Agentic, Open Source Robotics Development

- Company: NVIDIA (nvidia.com)
- Announced: 2026-09-22T12:00:41+00:00
- Category: developer-tool-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/isaac-ros-5-0-agentic-open-source-robotics/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/13022-nvidia-isaac-ros-5-0-advances-agentic-open-source-robotics-development
- Subject: AI platform
- Models affected: FoundationPose, FoundationStereo, NVIDIA Nemotron, NVIDIA GR00T

NVIDIA released Isaac ROS 5.0, a collection of GPU-accelerated packages for robotics development built on the open source ROS framework. The release introduces agentic workflows, support for ROS Lyrical and Ubuntu 24.04, new reusable skills for setup and manipulation tasks, and agent-ready documentation to help AI agents assist with robotics development. FoundationPose now provides faster object pose estimation and tracking, while a new FoundationStereo fine-tuning skill enables AI agents to adapt stereo perception models to specific camera and environment configurations.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/isaac-ros-5-0-agentic-open-source-robotics/:

> Isaac ROS 5.0 introduces support for ROS Lyrical and Ubuntu 24.04, giving developers a path to adopt the latest ROS platform while continuing to accelerate demanding robotics workloads with NVIDIA accelerated computing. New NVIDIA Isaac skills for setup and manipulation provide reusable workflows that developers and AI agents can use to complete robotics development tasks.

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