Attention
As of June 30, 2025, the Isaac ROS Buildfarm for Isaac ROS 2.1 on Ubuntu 20.04 Focal is no longer supported.
Due to an isolated infrastructure event, all ROS 2 Humble Debian packages that were previously built for Ubuntu 20.04 are no longer available in the Isaac Apt Repository. All artifacts for Isaac ROS 3.0 and later are built and maintained with a more robust pipeline.
Users are encouraged to migrate to the latest version of Isaac ROS. The source code for Isaac ROS 2.1
continues to be available on the release-2.1
branches of the Isaac ROS
GitHub repositories.
The original documentation for Isaac ROS 2.1 is preserved below.
Isaac ROS NITROS

Overview
Isaac ROS NITROS contains NVIDIA’s implementation of type adaptation and negotiation in ROS 2. To learn more about NITROS, see here.
Quickstarts
Packages
Supported Platforms
This package is designed and tested to be compatible with ROS 2 Humble running on Jetson or an x86_64 system with an NVIDIA GPU.
Note
Versions of ROS 2 earlier than Humble are not supported. This package depends on specific ROS 2 implementation features that were only introduced beginning with the Humble release.
Platform |
Hardware |
Software |
Notes |
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Jetson |
For best performance, ensure that power settings are configured appropriately. |
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x86_64 |
NVIDIA GPU |
Docker
To simplify development, we strongly recommend leveraging the Isaac ROS Dev Docker images by following these steps. This will streamline your development environment setup with the correct versions of dependencies on both Jetson and x86_64 platforms.
Note
All Isaac ROS Quickstarts, tutorials, and examples have been designed with the Isaac ROS Docker images as a prerequisite.
Customize your Dev Environment
To customize your development environment, reference this guide.
Updates
Date |
Changes |
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2023-10-18 |
Introducing CUDA with NITROS |
2023-05-25 |
CPU usage optimizations |
2023-04-05 |
Update to be compatible with JetPack 5.1.1 |
2022-10-19 |
Minor updates and bugfixes |
2022-08-31 |
Update to be compatible with JetPack 5.0.2 |
2022-06-30 |
Initial release |