diff --git a/meta-ros1-melodic/recipes-bbappends/kobuki-core/kobuki-core_%.bbappend b/meta-ros1-melodic/recipes-bbappends/kobuki-core/kobuki-core_%.bbappend
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4fce0361b30
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-ros1-melodic/recipes-bbappends/kobuki-core/kobuki-core_%.bbappend
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2020 LG Electronics, Inc.
+
+# kobuki-ftdi is blacklisted
+ROS_EXPORT_DEPENDS_remove = "kobuki-ftdi"
+ROS_EXEC_DEPENDS_remove = "kobuki-ftdi"
diff --git a/meta-ros1-melodic/recipes-bbappends/kobuki-core/kobuki-ftdi_0.7.8.bbappend b/meta-ros1-melodic/recipes-bbappends/kobuki-core/kobuki-ftdi_0.7.8.bbappend
index c5bb86bdb1c..0f37dc6096d 100644
--- a/meta-ros1-melodic/recipes-bbappends/kobuki-core/kobuki-ftdi_0.7.8.bbappend
+++ b/meta-ros1-melodic/recipes-bbappends/kobuki-core/kobuki-ftdi_0.7.8.bbappend
@@ -2,3 +2,5 @@
 
 FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/${BPN}:"
 SRC_URI += "file://0001-CMakeLists-update-libusb-libftdi-pkg-config-names-to.patch"
+
+PNBLACKLIST[kobuki-ftdi] ?= "Not compatible with newer libftdi included in meta-oe: https://github.com/kobuki-base/kobuki_ftdi/issues/3"
diff --git a/meta-ros1-melodic/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-ros-world-melodic.bb b/meta-ros1-melodic/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-ros-world-melodic.bb
index 902b10c3d93..68cec8a6989 100644
--- a/meta-ros1-melodic/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-ros-world-melodic.bb
+++ b/meta-ros1-melodic/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-ros-world-melodic.bb
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ RDEPENDS_${PN}_remove = "odom-frame-publisher"
 # Fetches depot_tools during do_configure and then tries to use vpython which isn't in dependencies
 RDEPENDS_${PN}_remove = "webrtc"
 
+# Not compatible with newer libftdi included in meta-oe: https://github.com/kobuki-base/kobuki_ftdi/issues/3
+RDEPENDS_${PN}_remove = "kobuki-ftdi"
+
 RDEPENDS_${PN}_remove = "${@bb.utils.contains('ROS_WORLD_SKIP_GROUPS', 'qt5', '${ROS_SUPERFLORE_GENERATED_WORLD_PACKAGES_DEPENDING_ON_META_QT5}', '', d)}"
 
 ROS_SUPERFLORE_GENERATED_WORLD_PACKAGES_DEPENDING_ON_META_QT5 = " \