Some new features enabled by ROS 2 include decreased latency, improved security, and more flexibility with middleware configuration.

PickNik is collaborating with Universal Robots (UR) and Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI) on developing the official ROS 2 driver for UR’s collaborative robot arms. PickNik is developing the UR ROS 2 driver as a test platform for ros2_control, the popular control framework for the Robot Operating System (ROS) that is in the final stages of porting…

MoveIt 2 is a version of the popular open-source platform for developing robot arm controls that has been released under ROS 2.