Robotiq has launched three open-source software program releases for its adaptive grippers: a C++ SDK, an official ROS 2 bundle, and up to date Nvidia Isaac Sim belongings. All three are maintained and optimized by Robotiq and out there now on github.com/robotiq.
Robotiq adaptive grippers have run in ROS 2 and Isaac Sim for years, primarily pushed by the group of robotic builders who wrote the drivers, constructed the simulation fashions, and maintained the grippers packages on their very own time so the {hardware} would work contained in the instruments they already used. That work carried the ecosystem a good distance, and a great deal of it’s nonetheless seen in what shipped this month.
“What modified is the demand. A bodily AI software asks way more of a gripper than a traditional one ever did,’’ stated Vincent Duchaine, CTO AI at Robotiq.
“It requires greater constancy in simulation, tighter management loops on actual {hardware}, far more of what the gripper can report about what it’s holding, and deployments that preserve accumulating this information throughout thousands and thousands of cycles.
“The instruments transfer quick on their very own account and staying appropriate is steady work. Packages maintained in spare hours have been by no means meant to hold that form of weight.”
To higher meet the rising demand ensuing from bodily AI, Robotiq is taking possession by optimizing, sustaining, and assembly builders the place they already work.
- The ROS 2 packages are a drop-in substitute for the group driver most labs already run, matching its interfaces so switching prices a single line.
- The C++ SDK provides the identical management as a stand-alone library for groups constructing their very own stack.
- The Isaac Sim belongings now allow closed-loop kinematics, which is crucial for the high-fidelity simulation of the gripper.
These new open-source software program releases additionally level at one thing wider. They’re the primary items of Contact Core, Robotiq’s software program layer for bodily AI.
Contact Core provides mannequin builders the simulation belongings, management packages, and synchronized contact-rich information interfaces they should practice manipulation fashions on Robotiq parts and deploy them on actual robots.
The subsequent step is embedded intelligence on the level of contact, anticipated for launch in This fall.
See Robotiq at IROS 2026
Robotiq will present its new innovation solely on the IEEE/RSJ Worldwide Convention on Clever Robots & Methods (IROS) 2026 in Pittsburgh on September 28 at sales space 427.
