NVIDIA Isaac Transport for ROS package for hardware-acceleration friendly movement of messages.
NITROS is deprecated. Isaac ROS nodes now use ROS 2 messages with rosidl::Buffer fields and
the CUDA buffer backend, which are native ROS 2 Lyrical features. NITROS type adaptation and
negotiation, Managed NITROS, CUDA with NITROS, PyNITROS, and the NITROS Bridge APIs will be removed
in a future Isaac ROS release. Node-level compatibility is maintained, but applications that call
NITROS APIs directly require source-level migration. Refer to
From NITROS to rosidl::Buffer for the migration
guide, and rosidl::Buffer and Buffer Backends for the
replacement architecture.
Isaac ROS NITROS now contains the vendor packages that distribute NVIDIA’s precompiled SDKs to other Isaac ROS repositories, along with the remaining NITROS Bridge converter.
Please visit the Isaac ROS Documentation to learn how to use this repository.
cuapriltags_vendor: Vendor package for the precompiled NVIDIA cuAprilTags SDK.cumotion_vendor: Vendor package for the precompiled NVIDIA cuMotion SDK.cuvslam_vendor: Vendor package for the precompiled NVIDIA cuVSLAM SDK.isaac_ros_nitros_bridge_ros2: Converter between NITROS bridge messages and ROS 2 messages.
Update 2026-09-21: Deprecated NITROS in favor of rosidl::Buffer and the CUDA buffer backend