diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/rospkg/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/rospkg/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5445aa1023dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/rospkg/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  buildPythonPackage,
+  catkin-pkg,
+  distro,
+  distutils,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+  pytestCheckHook,
+  pyyaml,
+  setuptools,
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "rospkg";
+  version = "1.6.0";
+  pyproject = true;
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "ros-infrastructure";
+    repo = "rospkg";
+    tag = version;
+    hash = "sha256-6nfdY+p3P3iGuj+7Lo7ybsZ+1x104m7WzGgxr8dDDuw=";
+  };
+
+  build-system = [ setuptools ];
+
+  setupHook = ./setup-hook.sh;
+
+  dependencies = [
+    catkin-pkg
+    distro
+    distutils
+    pyyaml
+  ];
+
+  nativeCheckInputs = [
+    pytestCheckHook
+  ];
+
+  pythonImportCheck = [ "rospkg" ];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "ROS package library for Python";
+    homepage = "http://wiki.ros.org/rospkg";
+    changelog = "https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/rospkg/blob/${version}/CHANGELOG.rst";
+    license = lib.licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ guelakais ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/rospkg/setup-hook.sh b/pkgs/development/python-modules/rospkg/setup-hook.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..cb4a79899a71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/rospkg/setup-hook.sh
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+export ROS_OS_OVERRIDE=nixos
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 71da13207798..2378512f6376 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -16212,6 +16212,8 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   rosbags = callPackage ../development/python-modules/rosbags { };
 
+  rospkg = callPackage ../development/python-modules/rospkg { };
+
   rotary-embedding-torch = callPackage ../development/python-modules/rotary-embedding-torch { };
 
   rouge-score = callPackage ../development/python-modules/rouge-score { };