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About PickNik Robotics

PickNik Robotics is a Boulder, Colorado software company founded in 2015 that leads the development of MoveIt, the open-source motion-planning framework used across the ROS ecosystem to control robot arms. Its commercial product, MoveIt Pro, builds on that foundation as a production platform for advanced manipulation: it combines a library of more than 600 pre-built skills for computer vision, machine learning, grasping and motion control (company-stated) with developer tools for data collection, debugging and simulation, and ongoing management of the underlying ROS, GPU-driver and vendor-SDK dependencies. PickNik also provides engineering services and MoveIt support plans to companies deploying manipulation in sectors from space robotics to manufacturing and logistics; its published customer work includes autonomous satellite-capture demonstrations for the US Space Force and manipulation projects for aerospace and industrial clients.

On 23 September 2026, Qualcomm Technologies announced an agreement to acquire PickNik, with the parties stating that MoveIt will remain open source and hardware-agnostic; as of the latest reporting the transaction had not closed and remains subject to customary closing conditions. For partners, PickNik is the specialist team behind the manipulation stack that many robot-arm applications already depend on.

Products & services

• MoveIt Pro — commercial robotics application platform for robot-arm manipulation, with pre-built AI skills, developer tools and simulation
• MoveIt (open source) — motion-planning framework for ROS, stewarded and maintained by PickNik
• MoveIt support plans and robotics engineering services
• Reference applications and a marketplace of reusable MoveIt Pro behaviours and supported hardware

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• Company website — picknik.ai (official site: profile facts, headquarters, markets and product range). Checked 6 November 2026.
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