ROS ecosystem
ROS ecosystem covers ROS, the common software layer for robots, and the libraries around it.
In brief
ROS ecosystem, in brief.
What it isROS ecosystem covers ROS, the common software layer for robots, and the libraries around it.
Where it sitsOne of 14 categories in the Robotics and physical AI layer. Robotics and physical AI covers the software and hardware used to build AI that moves in the real world: robot models, simulators, drone and driving stacks, robot platforms with developer kits, and the data they learn from.
What we track26 products, including Autoware, BehaviorTree.CPP / Groot2, Canonical ROS ESM, Copper (Rust robotics runtime) and Cyclone DDS.
The products
26 products in ROS ecosystem.
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From our census of 2026-11-08. A product listed here is one that belongs in this category; the search answer says whether we have checked it.
Questions
ROS ecosystem, answered.
What is ROS ecosystem in AI infrastructure?ROS ecosystem covers ROS, the common software layer for robots, and the libraries around it.
Which layer of AI infrastructure is ROS ecosystem in?ROS ecosystem is in the Robotics and physical AI layer. Robotics and physical AI covers the software and hardware used to build AI that moves in the real world: robot models, simulators, drone and driving stacks, robot platforms with developer kits, and the data they learn from.
Which products are in ROS ecosystem?We track 26 products in ROS ecosystem, including Autoware, BehaviorTree.CPP / Groot2, Canonical ROS ESM, Copper (Rust robotics runtime), Cyclone DDS, dora-rs (alternative dataflow middleware), Eclipse Zenoh / rmw_zenoh and Fast DDS. The full list is on this page.
Robotics and physical AI
The other categories in Robotics and physical AI.
Autonomous driving software stacksDrone stacksEmbodied-agent benchmarksHumanoid & robot platforms with SDKsLLM-to-robot interfaces & robot agentsRobot cloud & fleet managementRobot foundation modelsRobot hardware dev kits & computeRobot learning datasetsRobot perception, SLAM & motion planning librariesRobotics data logging & visualizationSimulationTeleop / robot data collection