Building Intelligent Robots with ROS 2 & AI Agents

Overview

With the rapid advancement of robotics and artificial intelligence, developing autonomous, adaptive, and efficient robotic systems has become essential across industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, and exploration. Yet integrating AI capabilities such as perception, decision-making, and adaptive behaviors into ROS 2-based robots present significant challenges, including sensor fusion, real-time data processing, environment interaction, and scalability.

This intensive 2-day, fully hands-on workshop led by Lentin Joseph — Author of 11 ROS & Robotics books, Co-Founder of RUNTIME Robotics, and TEDx Speaker aims to address these challenges by providing practical methods and frameworks to effectively integrate AI algorithms with ROS 2, enabling developers and researchers to build intelligent robots capable of operating in dynamic, uncertain environments.

Who Should Attend

• Robotics engineers & AI developers seeking integration skills.

• Graduate students & researchers exploring simulation-driven robotics.

• Hobbyists & innovators who want to prototype intelligent robotic systems.

What You’ll Learn

✅ Fundamentals of ROS 2 architecture, nodes, and simulation tools.

✅ Implementing navigation and motion planning with Nav2 & MoveIt 2.

✅ Designing perception pipelines with cameras, LiDAR, and sensor fusion (OpenCV & PCL).

✅ Introduction to NVIDIA Isaac Sim & Lab for extending ROS 2 workflows.

✅ Building adaptive AI agents in ROS 2 using behavior trees, MPC, and control frameworks.

✅ Best practices for debugging, optimization, and scaling robotic systems.

What You’ll Need

• ROS 2 Jazzy Installed

• Comfortable using development tools like VS Code and Docker

• Basic programming knowledge (Python or C++)
• Familiarity with Linux, and understanding of robotics concepts

Format

Live Online Workshop — interactive, screens-on build-along.

Duration: 2 days, 5 hours/day (including 0.5-hour break + 0.5-hour Q&A).

Prereqs: ROS 2 Jazzy installed, basic robotics familiarity.

Why Now

AI-driven robotics is rapidly becoming essential across industries. This workshop offers a practical, end-to-end roadmap for combining AI with ROS 2, giving participants both the technical workflows and hands-on experience needed to build intelligent robotic systems.

Exclusive Bonus: Every attendee gets a FREE "Mastering ROS 2 for Robotics Programming" eBook written by the speaker Lentin Joseph.

🎫 Reserve your seat now — limited spots for the live build-along.

Prototype intelligent robots this weekend, extend them into real-world deployments tomorrow