January, 2012
The ROS-Industrial repository was founded on GitHub by Shaun Edwards. This development was fueled by a collaboration between Willow Garage, Southwest Research Institute and Yaskawa.
October, 2012
Fraunhofer IPA organised the first workshop dicussing the usage of ROS in industrial use cases and protoyping the European ROS-Industrial initiative.
January, 2013
The ROS-Industrial Consortium was founded by Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas.
January, 2014
The ROS-Industrial Consortium Europe was founded by Fraunhofer IPA in Stuttgart, Germany.
January, 2016
The ROS-Industrial Consortium Asia & Pacific was founded by ARTC in Singapore.
January, 2017
ROS-Industrial Europe joins forces with ABB, Tu Delft, FH Aachen, Tecnalia and ITU and wins an EU-funded R&D project to develop the ROS-Industrial ecosystem.
January, 2019
After steady growth for since foundation, the consortium has more than 80 member organisations.