Calendar December 20, 2019
by Mike Lautman

PickNik and Rapyuta Team Up to Release MoveIt Grasps

PickNik and Rapyuta Team Up to Release MoveIt Gras

We are pleased to officially announce a major new feature to MoveIt: a default grasping library for manipulation called MoveIt Grasps. This package is the successor to the deprecated moveit_simple_grasps project and was originally developed by Dave Coleman and Andy McEvoy at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Over the past year, through a close partnership between Rapyuta Robotics and PickNik Robotics, the MoveIt Grasps package underwent a significant refactor and is now being released to the open-source community.

See Mike Lautman’s talk at ROSCon2019 about MoveIt grasps

Features:

  • Support for both parallel finger and suction grippers
  • An extensible framework for grasp generation, filtering, scoring, and selection
  • Support for virtually any robot arm and gripper pair via YAML configuration
  • Fast parallel processing for filtering hundreds of grasp candidates
  • Extensive debugging and visualization tools
  • Easy to run and modifiable demos

Because of Rapyuta’s and PickNik’s commitment to open source, this package has been made available to the community.

More Info

  • You can find out more about the package here.
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About Rapyuta Robotics

Rapyuta Robotics, an ETH Zurich spin-off, is a global technology startup with long term ambitions to develop a cloud robotics platform that will become the backbone of a new technology hub that unites hardware developers, software developers, businesses and end-users to build the next generation of robotics solutions. For more details visit https://www.rapyuta-robotics.com

Moveit Pro

MoveIt Pro is PickNik Robotics’ commercial robotics software platform that extends the capabilities of the open-source MoveIt project. Designed for unstructured environments, MoveIt Pro provides powerful tools for motion planning, grasping, perception, and behavior sequencing. With pre-built robot behaviors and a modular runtime architecture, MoveIt Pro significantly reduces engineering effort and time-to-deployment. Its hardware-agnostic design supports a wide range of commercial and custom robotic arms, making it ideal for scalable automation across space, manufacturing, and logistics sectors.