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Autonomous Navigation Systems
ROS 2 navigation, mapping, localization, planning, controls and sensor integration for autonomous mobile robots.
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Powering Physical AI robots from simulation to deployment
Engineering support for ROS 2, NVIDIA Omniverse and Physical AI—from digital twins, perception and robot learning to humanoids, quadrupeds, AMRs and industrial deployment.
Humanoid · Quadruped · AMRPhysical AISimulation to deployment
Physical AI systems online
Embodied roboticsHumanoid · Quadruped · AMR
Learning + simulationIsaac Sim · RL · IL
2010building and teaching ROS since
11books on ROS and robotics18+organizations worked with
ROS 2 + Isaacfrom simulation to deployment
Experience
Organizations we have worked with
Companies, research teams and publishers we have built robot software, training and books with.
IISROAApressDDuplexBBedestrianRRRemy RoboticsRRobomaniaSSwiftCCircleXSStreetDroneVVisconWWiproTMTata MotorsTTCSSSpotlessIIBMGGMAArkRobotPPackt
Capabilities
Our services
From ROS 2 engineering to Physical AI, we help teams build, train, validate and deploy modern robot systems.
Robot engineering
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Robot Manipulation & Motion Planning
Pick-and-place, bin picking, grasping, motion planning and force-aware manipulation for industrial robot arms.
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Robot Perception & Edge AI
2D and 3D vision, LiDAR, depth cameras, detection, tracking and GPU-accelerated ROS 2 perception pipelines.
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ROS 2 Hardware & Driver Development
Custom interfaces and drivers for cameras, LiDARs, motor controllers, embedded systems and complete robot platforms.
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Robot Simulation & Digital Twins
OpenUSD digital twins, NVIDIA Omniverse, Isaac Sim, software-in-the-loop testing and synthetic data workflows.
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Humanoid Application Development
ROS 2 applications for humanoids: navigation, perception, manipulation, teleoperation and sim-to-real validation.
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Quadruped Robot Application Development
Autonomous inspection, terrain-aware navigation, perception, payload integration and remote operator workflows.
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Robot Learning: RL, IL & Sim-to-Real
Reinforcement learning, imitation learning, demonstration data, policy evaluation and controlled deployment workflows.
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VLA, VLM & Multimodal Robot Applications
Vision-language models and vision-language-action prototypes for scene understanding, task planning and robot interaction.
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Synthetic Data & Physical AI Pipelines
RTX sensor simulation, domain randomization, synthetic datasets, teleoperation data and Physical AI evaluation pipelines.
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Industrial ROS & ROS 2 Training
Hands-on training in navigation, manipulation, perception, drivers, Docker, simulation and deployment.
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NVIDIA Omniverse & Isaac Training
OpenUSD, Omniverse, Isaac Sim, Isaac ROS, Isaac Lab, digital twins, synthetic data and robot learning workshops.
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Featured solution tracks
Solution areas spanning humanoids, robot learning, navigation, manipulation and simulation.
Humanoid
Unitree G1 & R1 Humanoid Navigation
Localization, navigation, obstacle awareness, safety boundaries and mission-level task control for humanoid platforms.
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Humanoid Perception & Manipulation
3D scene understanding, grasp planning and task execution with humanoid arms and dexterous end effectors.
Learning + AI
RL Locomotion & Whole-Body Control
Simulation environments, reward design, policy training, evaluation and controlled sim-to-real transfer for humanoids.
Learning + AI
Imitation Learning & Teleoperation
Demonstration collection, dataset processing, policy training and deployment validation for embodied robot tasks.
Learning + AI
VLA/VLM Physical AI Task Execution
Natural-language task interfaces, visual grounding, semantic scene understanding and controlled action pipelines.
Navigation
Quadruped Autonomous Inspection
Perception-led patrols, mapping, waypoint navigation and remote operator workflows for quadruped robots.
Simulation
AMR Digital Twin & Fleet Validation
Warehouse simulation, sensor modelling, navigation stress testing and synthetic data generation for AMR systems.
Manipulation
Industrial Manipulation Cell
Vision-guided pick-and-place, motion planning, gripper integration and workstation safety logic.
Open source
Tools and workshops we share
Our public code: ROS 2 tooling used by the community, and the material behind our Physical AI workshops.
Tool
Fusion 360 → URDF for ROS 2
Export Fusion 360 robot designs to URDF for ROS 2. Featured in Mastering ROS 2 for Robotics Programming.
ToolROS 2 GUI Installer
Beginner-friendly GTK4 installer for ROS 2 Humble, Jazzy and Lyrical, with simulation, Nav2 and MoveIt 2 options.
ToolROS 2 One-line Install
Install or remove a ROS 2 distribution with a single command.
WorkshopROSCon 2025 Physical AI Workshop
Docker template for the Physical AI workshop at ROSCon 2025.
WorkshopPhysical AI with ROS 2
Building intelligent robots with ROS 2: perception, planning, control and real-world deployment.
WorkshopVLM Robotics Workshop
Vision-language models on TurtleBot 4, Unitree Go2, Franka and Spot in ROS 2 and Gazebo.
WorkshopSim-to-Real with SO-101
An end-to-end Physical AI workflow with the SO-101 arm, Isaac Lab and Isaac GR00T.
WorkshopIsaac Lab Tutorial
Hands-on tutorial project for learning NVIDIA Isaac Lab.
Books by our team
11 books on ROS and robotics, written by our co-founder
Latest · Fourth EditionMastering ROS 2 for Robotics Programming
Design, build, simulate and prototype complex robots using the Robot Operating System 2.
The book features our open-source Fusion 360 → URDF exporter for ROS 2.
See all books on Amazon ↗Who we are
Engineering robots from software outward
RUNTIME Robotics works with commercial and research teams on robot software, simulation, algorithms, perception and integration, helping turn robotics ideas into reliable systems while sharing practical knowledge through training.
Co-Founder · ROS Developer & Educator
Lentin Joseph
ROS developer and educator since 2010, author of 11 books on ROS, and a hands-on engineering partner for simulation, navigation and robot-software projects.
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Co-Founder · ROS Developer & Educator
Aleena Johny
ROS software developer, educator and co-author supporting practical robot-software delivery, training and modern ROS 2 development workflows.
View LinkedIn profileResearch + commercialSupport from prototypes through product integration.
Remote friendlyDevelopment workflows designed for distributed robot teams.
EducationHands-on ROS learning for engineers and students.
Knowledge
View all articles →From the blog
November 7, 2026 · 4 min read
Synthetic Human Data in NVIDIA Isaac Sim
How we build diverse digital humans in Blender, convert them for Isaac Sim, animate them and generate validated pose datasets for robot perception.
November 7, 2026 · 4 min read
VLA vs RAX: Beyond Imitation Learning?
Two paths to robot learning: Vision-Language-Action models that learn from demonstrations, and RAX coding agents that explore and write their own reusable skills.
October 27, 2026 · 2 min read
Physical AI in Production, Explained
A 43-slide industry briefing on where robot foundation models are running today, where they're still in pilots, and an eight-stage playbook for taking one to production.
Get in touch
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LocationKochi, Kerala, India