NVIDIA releases Isaac ROS 5.0 with agent-ready FoundationPose inference

On September 22, 2026, at ROSCon in Toronto, NVIDIA released Isaac ROS 5.0 for ROS Lyrical on Ubuntu 24.04. The release claims FoundationPose object tracking up to 5.5x faster through an agent-ready inference library, and adds a FoundationStereo fine-tuning skill and a pick-and-place skill. The software is free and open source and supports Jetson Orin Nano through Jetson Thor.

• Isaac ROS 5.0 for ROS Lyrical on Ubuntu 24.04
• FoundationPose tracking claimed up to 5.5x faster (NVIDIA claim)
• Warehouse arm collision-free path planned in roughly 2 to 5 ms with cuMotion (Ekumen example)
• Targets nearly 1.3 million ROS users; supports Jetson Orin Nano to Jetson Thor