The open source motion planning platform for ROS

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What is MoveIt?

MoveIt is an open source robotics manipulation framework for developing new applications, prototyping designs, and benchmarking algorithms.

Are you a commercial company looking to quickly deploy robots to production? Check out MoveIt Pro.

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MoveIt saved us approximately 6 months of development time and allowed us to get our products in front of customers well ahead of schedule.

Tom Hummel, VP Engineering, Kindred

Why MoveIt?

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No license fees

Open source, business friendly, and non-copyleft usage

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Extensible

Use only the components you need to bootstrap your application

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Fully customizable

You have full access to the source code so your team can modify

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Key MoveIt Components

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Motion Planning

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Manipulation

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Inverse Kinematics

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Realtime Control

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3D Perception

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Collision Checking

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MoveIt is making advanced motion planning mainstream. It can easily reduce your time-to-market by years

Michael Ferguson, Entrepreneur and ROS Consultant

Three Primary Goals of MoveIt

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Prototyping

Build your minimum viable product with this open source solution

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Research

Advance international manipulation research by providing an open source infrastructure. No more reinventing the wheel.

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Benchmarking

Compare the performance of algorithms, particularly planning algorithms, by providing a common platform for testing.

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PickNik's Stewardship of MoveIt

PickNik was founded with the mission of providing powerful platforms for the robotics industry. MoveIt OSS is our original product, though notably MoveIt was originally conceived at Willow Garage. PickNik has since developed a professional, more mature version of MoveIt called MoveIt Pro.

While PickNik leads the growth and maintenance of MoveIt, we believe it's important to acknowledge the vibrant international community of collaborators and maintainers that play a huge role by improving the software and adding new features.

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PickNik is a for-profit company that balances the need to improve the open source code of ROS and MoveIt with the need to develop commercial software - MoveIt Pro.

What PickNik does to improve the MoveIt project:

  • Provides engineers that review pull requests, fix regressions, and add new features to the open source.
  • Provides organizational leadership, outreach, and publicity.
  • Organizes many events throughout the year, including World MoveIt Day and MoveItCon.
  • Mentors interns and Google Summer of Code students to improve the code.
  • Runs monthly and weekly video call working groups for MoveIt developers.
  • Contributes portions of code from commercial projects back to improving MoveIt and ROS.
  • Makes binary/debian releases at intervals throughout the year.

We promise that:

  • We won't remove features from the open source codebase in order to make the same feature paid (features might be removed from the open source codebase due to changes in the application).
  • We will always release and open source all tests that we have for an open source feature.
  • The open source codebase will not contain any artificial limits (performance, etc.).
  • We will always allow you to benchmark the performance of MoveIt.


Looking for a commercially
supported version of MoveIt?

PickNik's MoveIt Pro platform is an easier to use, production-grade version of MoveIt that is ready to support your team's development efforts.

Learn more about MoveIt Pro

Since 2015, PickNik has developed our commercial grade MoveIt Pro platform to propel the robotics industry forward, while also contributing back to ROS, MoveIt, and many other open source projects.

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