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Over the past few months, I've had the privilege of stepping into the role of leading ROS-Industrial Americas. I'm grateful to Matt Robinson for his years of leadership and the strong community he helped build. At our 2026 Annual Meeting, I had the opportunity to share my first impressions and my vision for where we can go next. I've reproduced that welcome letter below, because it captures the direction I hope we'll pursue together. This is my first annual meeting as program director for ROS-In

For industrial robotics teams, simulation is useful only when the important parts of the simulated system behave enough like the real system to support better engineering decisions. A robot arm that looks right but reaches to the wrong pose is an obvious problem. A gripper that looks right but responds differently during contact can be harder to notice, and in manipulation work it may matter even more. At Southwest Research Institute, we have been developing and evaluating Physical AI approaches

I’ve spent the last few months building ������� to automate one of the most repetitive parts of robotics development. Instead of manually converting CAD assemblies, configuring joints, generating robot descriptions, and debugging the first setup, the goal is a verified, ready-to-use robotics workspace automatically in ������ and ����. But now I’m at a point where the technical part feels solid. The new challenge is figuring out how to reach

The group is skipping two meetings (2026-07-27, 2026-08-10) due to lack of available members! The next meeting of the CRWG will be at Mon, Aug 24, 2026 4:00 PM UTC → Mon, Aug 24, 2026 5:00 PM UTC , where we will continue editing the first draft of the Logging and Observability guide. We also worked on this last session, but decided not to record as it would make for pretty dry video content! The meeting link for next meeting is here , and you can sign up to our calendar or our Google Group for

Would you use a free CLI tool to convert CAD assemblies to URDF? No CAD plugins. Just one command from your terminal to work in Ros directly. I’m thinking about open-sourcing the core of a tool I’ve been building over the past few months, and I’d love to validate the idea before releasing it. Would you use something like this? Or do you prefer the existing CAD add-ins? If not, what’s the biggest reason? 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic

Hi all — I’m a security engineer researching runtime security for autonomous mobile robot fleets (warehouse/3PL AMRs on ROS 2). I keep hitting one question I can’t answer from the outside, and I’d value the perspective of people who actually run or build these fleets: For fleets already deployed in production — is anyone doing continuous security monitoring (detecting anomalous behaviour at runtime), or is security still mostly design-time hardening (SROS 2, DDS security) and then hands-off? Whe

I’ve always put just “BSD” in the package.xml of our projects, mostly because it is the exact value mentioned in https://www.ros.org/reps/rep-0149.html#license-multiple-but-at-least-one . However, this value is not SPDX. What’s the current best practice? Should we start putting SPDX identifiers into the license tag? Would it deserve a small update of REP 149? 11 posts - 5 participants Read full topic

Hello ROS & Gazebo Community, We’re excited to announce the release of gz_ros_tts, an open-source ROS 2 Text-to-Speech (TTS) Plugin for the latest Gazebo Harmonic. This release is the Gazebo Classic and Gazebo harmonic ROS TTS Plugin, bringing the same idea to the modern Gazebo ecosystem with ROS 2. # Project Evolution ## Version 1 — Gazebo Classic ROS TTS Plugin The first version of the plugin introduced Text-to-Speech support for robots running in Gazebo Classic through ROS. ### Supported

[Update] Thanks to the great feedback in the comments regarding rosbag2 snapshot , I have updated the original post to clarify how YERP and rosbag2 snapshot work perfectly together as a trigger-and-capture pair! Hi everyone, Recently I have been thinking about a very practical debugging problem in ROS / ROS2 perception pipelines, especially for AMRs and mobile robots. When a robot behaves strangely in the field, the usual workflow is often: rosbag record everything. Bring the massive data back.

Hi everyone, Recently, I’ve been learning more about Zenoh and its role in the ROS 2 ecosystem. Since most ROS 2 applications rely on DDS for communication, I was curious about how Zenoh approaches the same problem and where it can provide advantages. From what I’ve learned so far, Zenoh offers a lightweight communication layer that aims to reduce latency, minimize bandwidth usage, and simplify communication across distributed systems. These characteristics make it particularly interesting for r

Just saw that newly imported Chinese legged and humanoid robots are now banned in USA , what other alternatives are there? I know Unitree had ROS interface in both Go2 dog and G1 humanoid (and you could jailbreak cheap base version instead of expensive research one). What other alternatives are there? Will this spur open source/open hardware design? Again, I’m adding poll of what legged/humanoid robots have you used/planned to use What legged/humanoid robots have you used/will use? Chinese( Un

Hello ROS Community, The OSRF Infrastructure Project is planning to update the Jenkins version of https://build.ros2.org as part of our ongoing efforts to maintain and improve the ROS buildfarm infrastructure. To facilitate this migration, the following services will experience downtime during the maintenance window: https://build.ros2.org (Jenkins) will be temporarily unavailable or in shutdown mode (not running jobs). The migration is scheduled to begin on Monday Mon, Aug 3, 2026 11:30 AM UTC

Hi everyone, I’m curious about how other ROS 2 developers approach understanding a large or unfamiliar workspace. When joining an existing project or reviewing a large codebase, I often find myself asking questions like: Which packages depend on each other? Which nodes communicate together? What topics, services, and actions are used? Are there isolated nodes or communication issues? Does the implementation still match the intended architecture? How do you quickly get a high-level understanding

site: GitHub - yjphhw/ros2_pkg_create: A utility script for generating ROS 2 package templates that support both C++ and Python nodes, simplifying mixed-language development within a single package. · GitHub useage is very easy, just download the ros2_pkg_create.py and put in a workspace(direction), and run python3 ros2_pkg_create <package_name> such as create demo_pkg: python3 ros2_pkg_create demo_pkg output is : 正在生成混合功能包: my_pkg 已创建: src/my_pkg/CMakeLists.txt 已创建: src/my_pkg/package.xml 已创建:

Hi all, I’ve been working on a global planning engine aimed at warehouse/fleet deployments, and I just opened a free API tier. I’d love feedback from people running real Nav2 fleets. What it does You upload an occupancy grid once. It solves a field for your goal (charging station, pick station, dock), and from then on every path query — from any start cell — returns a strictly optimal path in microseconds, without re-searching the map. The pitch for fleet operators: the cost of global planning s

TL;DR : A workspace-level uv-managed venv works on stock apt-installed ROS 2 — including a PyTorch+CUDA node — but we hit five reproducible failure modes on the way (verified on Jazzy; none of the mechanisms are Jazzy-specific). Key measurement: the known shebang workaround ( [build_scripts] executable = /usr/bin/env python3 ) does not cover --symlink-install , so when colcon is launched from the system Python there is currently no complete workaround. Below are four minimal change proposals for

We have been working on adding real-time functionality to rcl and rclcpp since 2022. In response to this proposal, we have created a new package that provides real-time functionality without changing the existing packages. esol-community/ros2_realtime_support Background The previous discussion is as follows: ROS lacks a unified mechanism to formally support real-time functionality, and we have tried to achieve this by adding functionality to rcl and rclcpp . On the other hand, it has been pointe

Hi ROS Community! We are opening early-access evaluations for ADEL 2.0 (Autonomous Deterministic Executive Layer), a bare-metal C++/Rust execution engine built for ultra-low latency, zero-jitter control loops. While designed for microsecond satellite maneuver planning under severe compute bounds, ADEL 2.0 provides immediate utility for terrestrial robotics, BVLOS drone flight controllers, and autonomous hardware running ROS/ROS2 node topologies. Key Highlights: Microsecond-latency spatial trajec

Boston Robot Hackers is pleased share info about our August meeting: Topic: Forward & Inverse Kinematics: The Math: From joint angles to end-effector poses" Speaker: Shivam Chopra, PhD Date: August 6 2026 Time: 7:00pm to 9:00pm Location: Artisans Asylum, Alston, Boston Shivam will introduce the concepts of Forward and Inverse Kinematics, explain where it fits into robotics (and how important it is!) and get into technical details of how to apply it and how the math works. Also featured two light

Hi ROS Community! For years, there has been a strong and consistent demand for seamless Protobuf serialization in ROS/ROS 2. While there are excellent existing tools in the community, integrating them cleanly into a high-performance, production-ready pipeline often comes with friction. Today, we’re excited to introduce protoros2 — a middleware wrapper and orchestration engine designed to provide zero-intrusive protobuf support for ROS 2. ZhenshengLee/protoros2: use protobuf in ros2 without compr

Hi Everyone, Quick reminder, the last day to purchase regular price tickets for ROSCon Global in Toronto is Tue, Aug 25, 2026 6:59 AM UTC . 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic

Organization: OSRF Contributor: Ammaar Ahmed ( GitHub , LinkedIn ) Mentors: Kimberly McGuire ( GitHub ) and Skyler Medeiros ( GitHub ) GSoC project: ROS 2 Client Library Performance Monitoring Repository: ros2-performance-monitoring Live dashboard: performance.ammaar.lol Hello everyone, I am Ammaar Ahmed. I am pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Robotics and Automation Engineering at FAST NUCES Islamabad, Pakistan. My interest in ROS began about a year and a half ago, when I started building robots

I briefly mentioned an order-sensitive state diagnostic in another thread, but that was the wrong place for it. Posting it separately here with an executable reproducer. The idea is simple: three consecutive pose samples in, one scalar residual out. It quantifies how much the result shifts when you change the nesting order of state composition. Synthetic test results: Smooth linear motion: 4.9848e-08 Abrupt pose/orientation jump: 0.000881456 This is absolutely not a validated anomaly detector ye

I have been looking into rosidl::Buffer and the current buffer backend support, particularly for large variable-length payloads such as images and point clouds. One idea I am interested in is a CPU shared-memory backend for rosidl::Buffer . I realize that this overlaps to some extent with functionality that already exists at lower layers. For example, some middleware / RMW implementations already provide shared-memory transport or other zero-copy optimizations. Depending on the implementation, m

I’ve been working on a ROS2 Dev Container Feature and just updated my VSCode ROS2 Workspace Template to use it instead of my pre-built ROS Docker images. The feature is here: GitHub Build software better, together GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects. Source: github.com GitHub - althack/devcontainers: My vscode devcontainers My vscode devcontainers The main thing I wanted was to select the RO

On the community event calendar (introduced in discourse.openrobotics.org#48220 ), is there a way to 1) select only the events of my interest, 2) receive updates if such event gets updated (time change etc.)? Each event seems to offer “Copy to my calendar”, which does copy a particular event on to my calendar, but the event doesn’t seem to get updates from the original event entity. Also even if the original event is recurring, the copied event seems to be one-time. Choosing “Add to Google Calen

As avid Jetson user, I just saw there has been 50-100% price increases across all Nvidia Jetson kit/module lineup , what other boards/SoCs/PCs are you using for running ROS on real world robots? I saw recent posts by @smac with AMD Strix , Intel also made some robotics computers recently , there’s also upcoming Qualcomm’s Arduino HW , but that’s more on EDU/DIY side… Jetsons seemed to me to have the most mature ecosystem, but some of those price increases surely puts them away from reach of stud