# New Nav2 Tutorial: Lidar-Free Navigation Using NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor, ROS

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**Created:** [December 15, 2025, 8:38pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/new-nav2-tutorial-lidar-free-navigation-using-nvidia-isaac-perceptor-ros/51411 "2025-12-15T20:38:43Z")\
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Howdy everyone, Your Friendly Neighborhood Navigator here for a special announcement before the holiday break 🎄 🎁

Open Navigation and NVIDIA have been collaborating over the past few months to bring a stronger tie between the Isaac Perceptor & ROS technologies that bring you VSLAM, NvBlox visual collision avoidance, and localization technologies so you can perform Lidar-Free Navigation using only stereo vision on the NVIDIA Jetson Orin or Thor platforms.

We’re excited to release the new tutorial showcasing how to setup and work with Vision-Only Navigation on the Nova Carter platform which may be adopted for your platforms (with a bit of leg work). You can find the documentation and a link to the scripts and resources below:

> **[Lidar-Free, Vision-Based Navigation — Nav2 1.0.0 documentation](https://docs.nav2.org/tutorials/docs/using_isaac_perceptor.html)**

We also have a video demonstration performed in Polymath Robotics offices in San Francisco (thanks so much for allowing us to use the space!) to show you point-to-point navigation that comprises most autonomy applications using Isaac Perceptor _without the lidars_ or using depth-specific algorithms derived from the stereo camera data:

[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/6/1/61915dbc9a88d36ccb0277765ad921f8ef52bcf7.jpeg "Nav2 & NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor - Lidar-Free Navigation") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axvemCE_lLE)

This is an exciting advancement for the Nav2 community and I hope you check this out and use parts of the Isaac toolkit to empower your applications.

Happy visual-izing,

Steve Macenski

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