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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? What legged

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

[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.

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

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? 4 posts - 3 participants Read full topic

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hi everyone, I am releasing PyZeROS , an experimental alternative to rclpy for communicating with ROS from Python. This is not a Python wheel packaging rclpy : I bit the bullet and wrote a client from scratch in pure Python. github.com GitHub - 2lian/pyzeros2: An alternative to ROS 2 rclpy. Minimal... An alternative to ROS 2 rclpy. Minimal dependencies, no ROS installation, asyncio executor. You can install PyZeROS like a standard python package: pip install pyzeros It does not require a ROS ins

Hi everyone, I recently released OnSLAM , an open-source Windows application for running LiDAR-inertial odometry and mapping on ROS1 bag files. It automatically detects compatible LiDAR and IMU topics, runs the mapping pipeline locally, visualizes the trajectory and point-cloud map in the browser, and exports PLY and PCD files. The main goal is to make it easier to inspect datasets, demonstrate LIO mapping, and generate maps without rebuilding a complete Linux and ROS environment. The project is

1.Introduction The recent popularity of OpenClaw has sparked a wave of enthusiasm for building personal robotic assistants. In this tutorial, we’ll demonstrate how to write an OpenClaw Skill that enables simple control of the AgileX NERO robotic arm. Before proceeding, make sure you have already installed and configured the OpenClaw environment. Please refer to the official OpenClaw documentation for installation instructions. 2. Writing an OpenClaw Skill Inside your OpenClaw agent workspace, cr

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Previously, we introduced a new tool — ROS2-DDSConfig-Optimizer, which is an AI-driven tool that automatically tunes DDS configuration for ROS2 applications. Initially, it only supported Fast DDS, but now it supports Cyclone DDS as well! Here we show a comparison between traditional manual tuning and using this tool: More improvement showcase and details: GitHub - qualcomm-qrb-ros/ROS2-DDSConfig-Optimizer: An AI-driven tool that automatically tunes DDS configuration for ROS2 applications. · GitH

Hi all, Sharing a tool I’ve been building: ros2_info — a fastfetch-style ROS 2 workstation dashboard with a full-screen terminal UI. Written in Rust, so it runs headless over SSH and on Pi/Jetson-class hardware without any Electron/webview overhead. Repo: GitHub - Gaurav-x111/ros2_info: fastfetch for ROS2 — distro info, live nodes, workspaces, web dashboard. One command. Everything you need. · GitHub It’s not trying to replace your editor or your terminal — it’s trying to replace the five termin

Hi everyone, LinkForge recently passed 5,000 downloads on the Blender Extensions platform, which encouraged me to share a broader idea behind the project rather than just another release announcement. Over the past year, I’ve been working on LinkForge, which started as a Blender extension for creating robot models. As the project evolved, I realized the more interesting problem wasn’t Blender itself, it was the way we author robot descriptions. Today, formats like URDF and XACRO often become the

Hi everyone! We’re excited to announce the release of OpenAMRobot v0.0.1 , an MIT-licensed, open-source mobile robotics platform built with ROS 2 Jazzy . OpenAMRobot is intended for education, research, experimentation, and rapid prototyping. The current release includes: Autonomous navigation SLAM and map creation Simulation support Autonomous docking A web-based operator interface Tools and examples for working with the robot through ROS 2 We would greatly appreciate feedback from the ROS co

Hey everyone! I’ve been working on something I’m pretty excited about and wanted to share it with the community. RoboShield is a real-time RTPS security watchdog I wrote in Rust. It basically sits on the wire (like on a NanoPi R2S with dual ethernet) and sniffs DDS/RTPS packets to catch stuff like rogue nodes joining your network, someone flooding /cmd_vel , or unauthorized publishers trying to hijack topics. GitHub : GitHub - Amin-Ahmed-G/robotshield · GitHub What it does Parses raw RTPS submes

Hello. I am currently working on a recipe to build a ros2-godot plugin ( GitHub - Kotakku/ros2-for-godot · GitHub ) on Windows. The goal is to have a ‘standalone’ plugin embedding all the needed dll (so without needing to install a ROS environment). Please note that I do not know a lot about ROS2… I have an issue with dynamically loaded libraries, because the plugin directory in not in the PATH envvar, and so those dlls are not found. The RMW implementation can be made static, thanks to CMake va

0. Preface Pika Sense provides an intuitive teleoperation interface for robotic manipulation and data collection. Combined with Pika Station, Pika Gripper, and the AgileX NERO robotic arm, it enables low-latency end-effector teleoperation for both single-arm and dual-arm systems. This tutorial walks through the complete setup process, and serves as a reference for developers who want to integrate Pika Sense with their own robotic arms. warning: Pika Sense currently supports: AgileX PiPER AgileX

Hi again, Following up on my earlier post about BAGEL, a browser-based ROS bag viewer/editor with no native dependencies and no ROS install. Since v1.0 it’s grown from a viewer into something closer to a full robotics debugging tool. Quick links for anyone new here: Link: https://bagel-ros2.vercel.app Source: GitHub - Hussain004/BAGEL: ROS Bag Visualizer · GitHub Full changelog with design rationale: BAGEL/FEATURES.md at main · Hussain004/BAGEL · GitHub What’s new since v1.0: Bag editing (v1.1,

Hi Everyone, Quick reminder that the last day to purchase early bird tickets for ROSCon Global 2026 is this coming Sunday Sun, Jul 12, 2026 7:00 AM UTC . Our early bird tickets are $150 off our regular ticket price and make your ROSCon workshop effectively free! 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic