Isaac GR00T
NVIDIA
11
Open humanoid foundation model
- Version
- 1.7
- Cost
- Free and open-source (commercial license available)
- Model
- Cosmos Reason
ROS 2
Open Robotics · #2 most active of 27 in Robotics
DDS-based middleware, navigation and manipulation stacks under annual LTS releases.
Current version
ROS 2
Entry cost
Free and open source middleware for robotics development.
Changes / 30d
7
The short answers · verified November 7, 2026
- What is the latest version of ROS 2?
- The current shipped version of ROS 2 is ROS 2, as of November 7, 2026.
- How much does ROS 2 cost?
- ROS 2 has no published flat entry price. Free and open source middleware for robotics development.
- What AI model does ROS 2 use?
- ROS 2 runs primarily on DDS (Fast/Cyclone).
Source: Open Robotics — docs.ros.org · Reusable under CC BY 4.0 — cite Tomorrow
Capabilities
- DDS middleware
- Nav2
- MoveIt 2
- 5-year LTS
- robotics middleware
- robot operating system
- open source
- open-source
- developer tools
- open source framework
- Robot Operating System
- Middleware
- Open Source
- Robotics Software Framework
- Robotics software platform
- Open source development
- middleware
- robotics-framework
- open-source framework
- Robotics middleware
- Open source
- Robotics Middleware
- Open Source Development Platform
- robotics framework
- robotics-middleware
- robotics SDK
- open source middleware
- Open-source middleware
- Open Source ROS 2
- robotics software framework
- Robotic middleware
- Open source framework
- Open-source SDK
- ROS 2 APIs
- Open source middleware
- Open-source framework
- Robotic Operating System
- Open Source middleware
- Robotics SDK
- robotics software platform
- robotics operating system
- robotics
Pricing
Open Source / Free
Free
Entry price over time
12 of 61 points reconstructed from Internet Archive captures (hollow dots) — dated by capture, not by when we first saw the page. View a capture
Geek mode
Models under the hood
- disclosed
DDS (Fast/Cyclone)
eProsima / Eclipse
Context window
—
Public API
no
Multi-model routing
no
Stack signals
- ROS 2
- C++
- Python
Shared model stack
Other tracked products running on the same foundation models — a quick read on how much of the catalog moves when one of these models changes.
- DDS (Fast/Cyclone)eProsima / Eclipse · 1 product
green disclosed · amber inferred · grey unattributed. Aliases are folded into one model; provider concentration counts only models with an established vendor.
Reported scale
Reference data. Each figure is whatever the source actually said — weekly users, downloads, revenue run-rate — with its own definition and date. These are not comparable between tools and are never used to rank anything.
No public usage figure on record for this product.
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Change history
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ROS 2 compared
Straight head-to-head pages against the busiest products in Robotics.
How to cite this page
Free to cite and reuse under CC BY 4.0. Permalink: https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/ros2
APA
Tomorrow. (2026). ROS 2 — version, pricing and model stack [Data set entry]. AlienSquad. Retrieved 2026-11-08, from https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/ros2
BibTeX
@misc{tomorrow-tools-ros2,
author = {{Tomorrow}},
title = {ROS 2 — version, pricing and model stack},
year = {2026},
publisher = {AlienSquad},
howpublished = {\url{https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/ros2}},
note = {Accessed: 2026-11-08}
}