Toyota Research Institute Teams up with Robotics Foundation

September 30th, 2016 by

Toyota Motor Corporation made a charitable contribution of $1 million to the Open Source Robotics Foundation in order to support its goals of expansion. The Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF) announced a new arrangement and a gift from Toyota research Institute (TRI). This Institute is a research and as well a development enterprise. TRI signed one advisory agreement with a newly-founded Open Source Robotics Corporation (OSRC).

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With joined forces and proprietary tools Toyota will be a fast-growing company with robotics and automated vehicle research initiatives.

“I’ve witnessed first-hand the value of the Open Source Robotics Foundation. Of the twenty-three teams that competed in the DARPA Robotics Challenge eighteen used ROS and fourteen used Gazebo,” according to TRI CEO Gill Pratt. “Through this charitable contribution, TRI will support efforts to grow the capabilities of ROS and Gazebo, not only for TRI, but also for the hundreds of thousands of members of the open source robotics community.”

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“Our relationship with TRI is an important milestone for the robotics community; a milestone that’s been built on the generous efforts of thousands of contributors and hundreds of thousands of users worldwide that helped to make ROS and Gazebo the standards that they are today,” according to Brian Gerkey, CEO of Open Source Robotics Foundation. “We look forward to working with TRI to help grow and extend their capabilities and sharing any open source improvements back to the community.”

Open Source Robotics Foundation is a non-profit and independent organization founded by members of the global robotics society. This organization supports the development, distribution and approval of open source software used in education and robotics research.

The group manages the development of Gazebo, a 3D multi- robot simulator, and ROS which is made for writing robot software.

With this two-year agreement, TRI is going to take advantage of the OSRC’s engineering team knowledge.

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