MoveIt 2
- Software
- Robot arms and industry
- Framework
MoveIt 2 is an open-source motion planning and manipulation framework for ROS 2, aimed at building commercial applications, prototyping designs, and benchmarking algorithms.
Source on GitHub: github.com/moveit/moveit2 (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit a9004a4 (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- BSD-3-Clause (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE.txt (opens in a new tab) (BSD-3-Clause) at commit a9004a4 (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Provides a platform for robotic arm manipulation built on ROS 2.
- Offers extensive tutorials and documentation on its website.
- Ships as binary packages or can be built from source.
- Includes many packages covering planning, kinematics, perception, servo control, and visualization.
- Has a separate ROS 1 repository and a commercially supported version called MoveIt Pro.
- Targets the Rolling, Jazzy, Humble, and Kilted ROS 2 distributions through its branch policy.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit a9004a4.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Advanced
- How to start
- The project's website (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Active: a commit in the last 90 days
- Newest commit
- 29 Sept 2026 on main
- Latest release
- None published on GitHub
Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.
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