Hi everyone,
I’m happy to announce that the OSRA TGC has chartered a new Special Interest Group (SIG) for Physical AI. The goal of this new SIG is to research, develop and standardize new messages, features, capabilities, tools, and resources for OSRA Projects, such as ROS, to support recent innovations in physical AI, including visual-motor policies and data set management pipelines. Our long-term goal is to enable ROS to serve as both a platform for data collection and a framework for the commercial deployment of Physical AI models. You can find more information about the new SIG in its charter.
Our initial Physical AI SIG members include volunteers from the TGC and outside subject matter experts. They are:
- Tully Foote, Intrinsic - Chair
- Yadunund Vijay, Intrinsic - Deputy Chair
- Adam Dabrowski, Robotec
- Bence Magyar, ros_control PMC
- Chen Bainian, ROS-I A*STAR
- Daniel Gordon, Huawei
- Hemal Shah, NVIDIA
- Jeremy Leibs, Rerun
- Kat Scott, Intrinsic
- Ken O’Brien, AMD
- Leonardo Rossetti, Redhat
- Michael Gentner, BMW
- Michel Hidalgo, Ekumen
- Peng Xu, Google Deepmind
- Sai Kishor, PAL Robotics
- Sebastian Castro, RAI Institute
- Tingfan Wu, Meta
- Vu Anh Vu, Huawei
- Yassine Cherni
- Yuheng Kuang, Google Deepmind
- Zeming Zhao, Sharpa
Over the next few months, our SIG members and their colleagues will develop a Physical AI roadmap for ROS and begin developing the items outlined in it. If you’re interested in participating in the Physical AI SIG, please reach out to Tully Foote. Please note that participation in the SIG comes with the expectation that you and your organization will make regular open-source contributions to the items outlined in the SIG’s roadmap.
The current subgroups are converging on the following focus areas:
- Standardized Interfaces & Messages
- Data Collection Pipeline
- Training & Execution Pipeline
- Reference Platform & Applications
- Embodied Agentic AI
Meetings for the Physical AI SIG will be open for observation by the community (via the Open Robotics Calendar). The current schedule for the meetings is to occur the week before and the week after the TGC meetings in a similar time slot.