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

September 09, 2019

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

Save the Date - World MoveIt Day 2019

July 31, 2019

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

Announcing SolidWorks to URDF Exporter 1.5

June 12, 2019

It is my pleasure to announce that we’ve made a huge update to the SolidWorks URDF Exporter. A big thank you is due to Verb Surgical for inspiring and su...

Announcing MoveIt 2 Alpha Release

May 31, 2019

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

Announcing Realtime Robotics RapidPlan Integration

April 08, 2019

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

Announcing MoveIt 1.0 and a Master Branch

March 08, 2019

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.

Announcing the MoveIt2 Port

March 01, 2019

Exciting news – the MoveIt port to ROS 2.0 has begun! We are happy to announce that [Acutronic Robotics](https://acutronicrobotics.com/) is partnering wi...

Report On MoveIt China Developer Workshop 2019

February 11, 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.

PickNik Keynote at ROS Industrial Conference 2018

January 16, 2019

Open Source Robotics for Fun and Profit

Google Summer Of Code Improvements to Perceptio...

December 11, 2018

Updates about the perception pipeline improvements from GSOC

Google Summer Of Code Project Improvements to M...

October 25, 2018

Updates for motion planners in MoveIt

Google Summer of Code Improvements to Setup Ass...

October 23, 2018

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

PickNik At ROSCon 2018

September 26, 2018

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

Save the Date - World MoveIt Day 2018

August 03, 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 impro...

MoveIt officially released into ROS Melodic

May 23, 2018

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

The MoveIt Project is Selected for 3 Google Sum...

May 08, 2018

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

Announcing MoveIt Tutorials Codesprint with Fra...

February 26, 2018

We are excited to announce that the robotic arm manufacturer Franka Emika is partnering with PickNik to sponsor a MoveIt codesprint to further improve Mo...

Report On Second Annual World MoveIt Day

February 01, 2018

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

MoveIt Montage 2017 is now available

June 20, 2017

MoveIt is 5 years old!

Dr. Mark Moll joins PickNik!