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Hi all, In May I asked here where “why did the robot do that?” gets answered ( The accountability gap in ROS2: where does "why did the robot do that?" get answered? ). This is what came out of that discussion so far: Kyvern, an Apache-2.0 Python library that records a robot’s own decisions in a signed, hash-linked chain that someone outside your team can verify. What it does Your controller keeps its own logic. When it decides (or, at 10 Hz, when its decision changes) it calls record_decision():

Hey everyone! Wanted to share a project I’ve been hacking on: a SpaceMouse-driven teleoperation and data collection pipeline for the AgileX PiPER 6-DOF arm on ROS 2. The main idea was to make teleoperation feel natural instead of clunky. You just grab a 6-axis SpaceMouse, steer the gripper through Cartesian space, and collect clean demonstration datasets (packaged for LeRobot / ACT imitation learning). A few quick details on how it’s set up: Controller: SpaceMouse 6-DOF inputs mapped to Cartesia

We’re planning for a Humble sync on Mon, Oct 12, 2026 7:00 AM UTC . There are currently 271 packages to sync and 0 regressions . We will start holding rosdistro PRs for the sync today ( Thu, Oct 8, 2026 7:00 AM UTC ) and will plan to do the sync on Mon, Oct 12, 2026 7:00 AM UTC . 2 posts - 1 participant Read full topic

I’m excited to announce that the Open-RMF project will be launching a new recurring meeting . It will be called Office Hours, and we will be taking that very literally. Community members are welcome to join us at the Intrinsic Singapore office for in-person discussion, Q&A, guidance, and pair programming. Folks who can’t make it to our office or who aren’t located in Singapore can still join by video call . The time is intended to be reasonable for an overlap of Singapore / America timezones. Fo

EasyNav robots Hi everyone! We are happy to announce EasyNav 0.5.0 , a new release of EasyNavigation, the open-source navigation system for ROS 2 developed at the Intelligent Robotics Lab The same version is available for Humble, Jazzy, Kilted and Lyrical , and you can install it in two ways: APT : the packages are already in the ROS 2 buildfarm and will be installable after the next sync . Pixi : available now , also for Rolling. It needs no ROS 2 installed on the system: the environment brings

Isaac ROS 5.0 is out and you can now also use Pixi to install it! Both on Jetson and normal Linux machines. Try it with: git clone https://github.com/prefix-dev/isaac-forge.git cd isaac-forge/examples/yolov8 pixi run demo prefix.dev – 7 Oct 26 Isaac ROS 5.0 with Pixi Making Isaac ROS installations easy, even on a Jetson device with Pixi 2 posts - 2 participants Read full topic

Hello Community! After ROSCon we’re back with our October Meeting where we’ll talk about multi-robot simulations. “Simulating multiple robots in Gazebo with ROS 2 often requires extensive manual configuration of topics, namespaces, and bridges. This Google Summer of Code project aims to simplify multi-robot simulation by introducing native namespace support in Gazebo and automated ROS-Gazebo bridging. These features allow users to launch multiple instances of the same robot model and automatical

I’ve recently been working on a project called Flockwork, an open-source decentralized drone swarm controller in ROS 2 Jazzy and Gazebo Harmonic. Instead of leaning on PX4/ArduPilot, the whole control stack is written from scratch in C++. For context each drone runs its own controller, so it holds a formation slot relative to its neighbors, and avoids obstacles without stalling. I really had fun working on this project and learning how to handle implementation. Six X3 drones take off, split arou

ROS News for the Week of October 5th, 2026 October is a busy month for regional ROSCons! ROSCon China in Shanghai is next weekend followed by ROSCon UK in Edinburgh . The following weekend is a sold out ROSCon Singapore (note that there is still space available for the pre-ROSConSG hackathon , and hackathon II ). The month concludes with a two day ROSCon Spain in Valencia on October 27th and 28th . This week @berkan_tali released Hold and Weld v.0.3.0. Hold and Weld is a ROS 2 workspace that use

Next Thursday, we will have our next monthly meeting of the Boston Robot Hackers . Mark it on your calendar now, and please register for the event—select October 15, 7:00 to 9:00. Reinforcement Learning for Multimodal Locomotion Arjun’s MS thesis at Northeastern’s Silicon Synapse Lab tackled a robot that could both walk and fly: the Husky-Beta legged-aerial platform. Crossing rough terrain meant more than learning to walk — the robot also had to learn which mode of locomotion to use at all, swit

Hi all, I’ve been building a small tool called knoblog, and I’d like feedback from people who actually maintain or depend on parameter files. The problem: a default changes in a params file, the commit is called something like “update params”, and you find out when the robot behaves differently after an update. knoblog walks a repo’s git history, pulls out every parameter/gain/threshold/flag default from each commit, and writes down what changed, old → new, with the commit link. A real example f

Hi everyone, Following up on my previous posts on deterministic safety reflexes (Demo 6) and Layer 3 ranking rules, I wanted to share the latest simulation milestone from QERRA-v2 Classical: Webots Demo 7 (Supervisory Gate & Authority Separation) . The Motivation In ROS 2 mobile bases, we typically route planner commands through twist_mux or nav2_collision_monitor, with watchdog timeouts on cmd_vel. In Demo 7, I wanted to explore a stricter, isolated architectural pattern inspired by classical S

Hi everyone! I’m developing an autonomous quadcopter(small category drone) using PX4, ROS 2 Humble, and a Jetson Orin NX 16 GB, with a Livox Mid-360 LiDAR. I’m planning to use GLIM for odometry, nvblox for 3D mapping, and a custom planner for obstacle avoidance, with PX4 SITL and Gazebo Harmonic for simulation. Could you please share your insights on whether this setup is suitable for real-time autonomous navigation and suggest any better alternatives or potential integration challenges? Thanks

Hi all, I’d like to share DendROS , an open-source tool that makes ROS 2 terminal output easier to read. When a launch file starts thirty nodes, they all print to the same terminal in the same color, and the line you need has usually scrolled away by the time you look for it. DendROS gives each group of nodes its own color and opens ros2 launch in a viewer where you can scroll, search and filter the log while the launch keeps running. Code (MIT): GitHub - mlisi1/DendROS: Color-coded terminal out

Hi everyone This follows up on our ROS 2 bridge for Smartgloves II . We’ve released a new version of the Rokoko Device SDK, which the bridge is built on. What’s new: More robust USB data stream: handles the SDK closing abruptly (requested by several customers) New Smartgloves II firmware: small improvements in power usage and performance OTA ready: from the next release, Smartgloves II can be updated over WiFi Pinch detector example: recognises thumb-to-index, middle, ring and pinky pinches on b

We’re happy to announce 40 new packages and 446 updates to ROS 2 Humble Hawksbill This sync was tagged as humble/2026-10-12 . amd64 (40 new, 446 updates) (click for more details) arm64 (115 new, 446 updates) (click for more details) Thanks to all ROS maintainers who make packages available to the ROS community. The above list of packages was made possible by the work of the following maintainers: Alejandro Hernanadez Alvin Sun Andrej Orsula Austin Hendrix Bence Magyar Bernd Pfrommer Chris Lalanc

Send a goal, follow the feedback, get the result. rclnodejs 2.3.0 , the ROS 2 client library for Node.js, brings ROS 2 actions to web apps over WebSocket and HTTP/SSE. ROS 2 Actions from the Browser The browser SDK derives TypeScript goal, feedback and result types from generated ROS declarations. OpenAPI export also includes action schemas. With an HTTP runtime on port 9001 exposing a running Fibonacci action server as /fibonacci : import { connect } from 'rclnodejs/web'; const ros = await conn

Hi everyone, I’d like to introduce VizMini2 , an Android app to view, drive and inspect ROS 2 robots from your phone or tablet. This is the first time I’m sharing it outside my own circle, so any comments, criticism or ideas are more than welcome. Why I built it Very often I just wanted to take a quick look at the robot: check whether the laser is publishing, see where it thinks it is on the map, move it a little or call a service. And for that I had to get the laptop out and open RViz, rqt and

Hi everyone! I’ve been building RobotLens , a native robotics engineering workspace that brings visualization, debugging, diagnostics, simulation, and development workflows into one connected environment. My background is in computer graphics and game development. When I started learning ROS 2, I found myself constantly switching between terminals, visualizers, logs, simulators, and other tools. Each tool was useful on its own, but as a beginner, I often struggled to understand how everything co

Hi all, Follow-up on RoboShield, my ROS 2 security project. v1 was a passive Rust watchdog that parsed raw RTPS packets with libpcap and flagged unknown GUID prefixes, unauthorized publishers and topic floods. It could alert, but it couldn’t stop anything. v2 is an inline gateway that protects the robot. Repo: GitHub - Amin-Ahmed-G/robotshield: Embedded out-of-band NIDS for ROS 2 RTPS/DDS networks in Rust with libpcap packet inspection and topic spoofing detection. · GitHub (v1 is kept on branch

Hi Gazebo Community! This week’s meeting was held on Mon, Oct 12, 2026 6:00 PM UTC and the following is a summary: PMC Business Approved Cherrie Lu for mentee committer status. Voting is currently open via email on adding Luca Della Vedova as a mentee PMC member. New agenda items Gazebo Maintainer Audit & Rebalancing (Phase 2) : A reminder that Phase 2 of the Gazebo Maintainer Audit & Rebalancing Workspace (2026) (not public) is open through Fri, Oct 16, 2026 12:00 AM UTC . Committers interested

Two big changes are coming to PlanSys2 : a new default planner, Kairos , and a new default plan BT Builder for the executor, STN . Kairos is a temporal and numeric PDDL planner developed within the PlanSys2 organization . It does not depend on ROS: it can be used as a C++ library or from the command line. Efficient and robust. On classical, numeric, temporal and robotics benchmarks it solves more problems than LAMA, OPTIC, TFD, POPF and ENHSP under the same limits. Results and method are in the

Hi everyone! I’m Tom, originally from Ireland and currently based in Sydney, Australia. I grew up on a dairy farm and have spent much of my career in business development and industrial operations. I’m relatively new to robotics, so firstly, I hope this is the right place to introduce myself and a project I’m working on! The project — Moobotics Dairy farming is incredibly labour-intensive, particularly milking cows twice a day. I’m developing Moobotics , a retrofit robotic system designed to aut

Did I say I’d publish one of these right after ROSCon Global? I was overly ambitious (so, so overly ambitious). Truth be told, Open Robotics HQ is still digging out from all the good stuff that happened in Toronto. There’s a whole lot involved with tying off an event, not least of which are the dozens of follow-up conversations that started while in Toronto. We’re closing the loop on a lot of community questions, including how you can help and contribute more to our work, what it would look like

Hi everyone, We at eProsima are sharing a preview of the upcoming AI capabilities in DDS Monitor Pro, with a workflow that is also relevant to engineers working with DDS-based ROS 2 systems. The Monitor’s built-in Model Context Protocol (MCP) server connects an MCP-compatible AI assistant to the system information and operations available in the Monitor. You can ask questions about the running system and inspect the resulting entities, charts and operations in the workspace. The preview demonstr

We are building an original, friendly-looking walking robot with expressive movement and AI interaction. We’re looking for a hands-on intern who is excited about robotics and wants to work on a real-world prototype from design and assembly through programming and testing. Must-haves: Currently pursuing an engineering degree or recently graduated in Robotics, Mechatronics, Mechanical Engineering, Electronics/Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related field, Basic knowledge of mechanical

Some updates on ros2_pulse since the first post ( Ros2_pulse: per-topic rates and node liveness, including intra-process, on stock binaries ), the LD_PRELOAD probe that counts per-topic rates and node liveness from the tracetools hooks instead of subscribing. Python nodes are counted on both sides now. Before, a Python subscriber’s deliveries never showed up, because rclpy isn’t instrumented. The probe now also hooks the rmw_take tracepoint, so rclpy (and rclc) receives count too. rclcpp still c

Hi everyone, Over time, the integration test suite in gz_ros2_control has grown incrementally as new controllers, demos, and interfaces were introduced. While these tests prevent regressions, the lack of a explicit test architecture currently leads to duplicate simulation launches, unnecessary CI runtime, and varying coverage across ROS 2 distributions (Rolling down to Humble). I’ve opened an RFC on GitHub ( #964 ) to discuss and define a consolidated integration test architecture before driving

The next meeting of the CRWG will be at Mon, Oct 19, 2026 4:00 PM UTC → Mon, Oct 19, 2026 5:00 PM UTC , where we will continue editing the first draft of the Logging and Observability guide. This will be very similar to the last meeting, except that the group hopes to finish the edit of the guide this meeting and send it to our prior guest speakers for review. The meeting link for next meeting is here , and you can sign up to our calendar or our Google Group for meeting notifications or keep an

ROS News for the Week of October 12th, 2026 We have a ton of great events lined up for this weekend and next week including: ROSCon China in Shanghai , RoboBusiness in Santa Clara , our monthly Gazebo Community Meeting on scalable multi-robot simulation in ROS 2 and Gazebo , RobOpsCon 26 in Mountain View , our October ROS By-The-Bay Meetup at Intrinsic , and our bi-weekly ROS-ffice Hours . Have you ever wanted to run RViz during an SSH session but you forgot to enable X11 forwarding? Now you can