Open Robotics

The videos from #ROSon Global are now available on Vimeo! Check out everything you missed and revisit your favorite talks. https://t.co/vRsOjDxPpC #Robotics https://t.co/HGsAmAsGZb

🇮🇳 ROSCon India is back! https://t.co/w0TrNs96yR

Join us for our monthly #ROS By-The-Bay meetup at the new @IntrinsicAI office this Thursday! Our guest speakers will be @youtalk, who will discuss swift-ros2, Davis Foster, co-founder of @AgencyToolCo (OTA robot updates), and Jose Diaz,…

Join us this Wed, Oct 21st, at 7pm PT for our monthly Gazebo Community Meeting. Our guest speaker will be Jiayi Cai, our Google Summer of Code student who will discuss building scalable multi-robot simulations using #ROS 2 and #Gazebo.…

Want to learn how to build a multi-robot simulation using @GazeboSim? Join us for our monthly #Gazebo Community Meeting next Wed, Oct 21st! Our speaker Jiayi Cai, who will share her work on making multi-robot simulations quick and easy.…

Want an easy way to support our open source projects? Take our 2026 Open Robotics Developer Survey! We use the survey results to drive future development. 👕 50 lucky survey participants will get a coupon code for our swag store!…

Interested in writing iOS apps that interface with #ROS? Our colleague Yutaka from @tier_iv_japan will be joining us next Thursday for ROS By-The-Bay to discuss swift-ros2 and his new #ConduitROS application. https://t.co/phRzPWjcvM

🇩🇪ROSCon Germany 2027 has been announced! Join the German ROS Community January 26th-28th in Ulm! The call for workshops and talks opens October 24th. https://t.co/VuSFVmmr4z

🤖 Want to show off your #ROS or #Gazebo project? ⁉️ Need help with your ROS or Gazebo project? 📆 Join us next Friday, October 23rd, at 9am PT for our bi-weekly ROS (and Gazebo) Office Hours. All are welcome to join! 🔗…

From human demos to autonomous action 🤖 Using @huggingface @LeRobotHF , @knaveen trained an #ACT policy for Seeed’s #SOARM101, collecting 100K data steps and training for 11 hours. The #robot arm can now pick up a cube and place it into a…

Our colleagues at Prefix have put together a really nice blog post explaining how ROS data transport and communication work. It is worth a read! https://t.co/aiFwP8Djdd

We just pushed an update for #ROS 2 Humble that includes 115 new and 446 updated ROS packages. New packages include: 🐢 EasyNav 🐢 MavROS examples 🐢 NavMap ⚠️ Official Humble support ends May 2027. Please consider upgrading to Lyrical!…

Want to create a multi-robot simulation in Gazebo? Our 2026 GSoC student JY just added new features to Gazebo that make building multi-robot simulations quick and easy. Join our monthly Gazebo Community Meeting at 7pm PT on Oct. 21st to…

The next #Gazebo community meeting is October 21! Join us to learn the latest Gazebo news, then stick around to hear about scalable multi-robot #simulation with #ROS and Gazebo. Full information here: https://t.co/nZAj47dEPi #Robotics…

Announcing Office Hours for #OpenRMF! This new event will happen every other Tuesday starting on Oct 12. For full info: https://t.co/cfsyeQdoON #Robotics #OpenSource https://t.co/VSM9FqrzFX

Heads up to users of the Rolling Ridley or Lyrical Luth #ROS releases! ros2_control version 6.12.0 removes the hardware_interface and controller_interface API calls that have been deprecated since Jazzy. More info: https://t.co/FnCGqqN9fk…

Want to help improve our open source projects? Please take 30 minutes to complete our annual user survey. We use your feedback to plan the future of our projects. We're also giving away free Open Robotics swag to 50 lucky participants.…

We just pushed an update for #ROS 2 Jazzy Jalisco with 190 new packages and 312 updated packages. New packages include: 🎷 boost-plugin-loader 🎷 dispatcher 🎷 mrpt 🎷 roboplan 🎷 ros2-shadow 🎷 tobas Details on Open Robotics Discourse:…

ROSCon Global 2026 took place recently in Toronto, and the numbers speak for themselves: it was our largest ROSCon Global **ever**. https://t.co/7nLWVUiKrG #ROSCon #OpenSource #Robotics https://t.co/LIm0f4lo5M

We just posted an update for #ROS 2 Lyrical Luth that includes 29 new packages and 265 updated packages. New packages include: 👩‍🎤 cloudini 👩‍🎤 ehukai 👩‍🎤 fadecandy-msgs 👩‍🎤 mrpt 👩‍🎤 rmf-demos 👩‍🎤 roboplan Details on Open…

On the second day of ROSCon Global 2026, the open source robotics world woke to the news that Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. has announced its intent to acquire PickNik Inc. Open Robotics welcomes this news. https://t.co/45JOKZrlIa…

We here at Open Robotics applaud open source distributions of #ROS. Each new release reinforces the stability, reliability, and production readiness of the Open Robotics Suite. https://t.co/pmDMWMo2yA https://t.co/0LaGt27ZAe

People saw the NVIDIA and Hugging Face acquisition news and immediately focused on foundation models, GPUs and the broader AI industry. But one of the biggest consequences could be in Physical AI and humanoid robotics. NVIDIA already…