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- SIG Charter - Read our official charter
The Physical AI SIG is a subproject of OSRA TGC focused on providing declarative standards and tooling to simplify training, deploying, and operating Physical AI models across diverse robot embodiments.
We leverage ROS's proven strengths—standardized interfaces, hardware abstraction, and mature ecosystem—to bridge the gap between AI research and real-world deployment. By establishing common conventions for describing robotic embodiments and their interfaces, we enable:
- Data Collection across diverse hardware platforms
- Model Training with standardized data formats
- Deployment of AI models to production robots
Mission: Define standardizations to represent and interface with robots for training, simulating, and deploying physical AI models across various embodiments.
Vision: Enable ROS to serve as both a platform for data collection and a framework for the commercial deployment of Physical AI models.
We're organized into five working groups, each focused on a critical layer of the stack. View detailed working group pages →
| Working Group | Focus | Coordinator |
|---|---|---|
| Standardized Interfaces & Messages | Common language and contracts for ecosystem interoperability | Michel Hidalgo (Ekumen) |
| Data Collection Pipeline | Tools and workflows for data collection, logging, and curation | Anh Vu Vu (Huawei) |
| Training & Execution Pipeline | End-to-end software workflow for policy deployment | Michael Gentner (BMW) |
| Reference Platform & Applications | T(AI)rtle Bot 5 platform and showcase applications | Yadunund Vijay (Intrinsic) |
| Embodied Agentic AI | Standards for flexible skill composition with reasoning models | Adam Dabrowski (Robotec.ai) |
The Physical AI SIG is developed in the open and welcomes contributions from the community. We ask that participants commit to making regular open-source contributions to items outlined in the SIG's roadmap.
- Meetings: Bi-weekly SIG meetings open for community observation
- Check the Open Robotics Calendar for schedule
- Documentation: Full docs at physical-ai.ros.org
- Discourse: Discussion at OpenRobotics Discourse
Developers:
- How to Contribute - Find contribution opportunities
- Working Groups - Explore focus areas and roadmaps
- Community Guidelines - Understand expectations
Organizations:
- Partnership Opportunities - Learn about organizational participation
- SIG Charter - Review official charter