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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 m

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

Howdy everyone - Your Friendly Neighborhood Navigator here with one more key announcement this month! We just open-sourced a robotics workload benchmark that tests compute platforms the way they’re actually used: running a full autonomous stack doing forklift pick-and-place, not simple isolated synthetic microbenchmarks. It processes 9 sensor streams from 3D LIDAR, depth cameras, etc running a full autonomy stack in a 180,000 sqft warehouse with a heavy VLM workload. Open Navigation Robot / AI W

I’m a second-year engineering student on the IIT Bombay Mars Rover Team. I built this because writing ROS2 boilerplate from scratch is slow, and Copilot gives you snippets — not a package that actually builds. Describe what your robot should do. ros2vine writes the nodes, launch files, build config, and README — ready to colcon build . ros2vine.vercel.app Core features: Complete packages, not snippets — every generation is a full colcon-buildable package Python (rclpy) and C++ (rclcpp), or mixed

After seven intensive days of academic lectures, hands-on lab training, technical exchanges and team project challenges, the 2026 ROS Summer School – Hangzhou, China has officially come to a successful close. Launched with 23 parallel specialized training tracks as previously announced, this annual flagship offline ROS education event brought together more than seven hundreds of students, academic researchers and industrial robotics practitioners from more than three hundreds institutions across

Howdy, I’ve worked extensively with CUDA and have been following AMD’s recent hardware releases with real interest. I maintain a few libraries that I’d like to extend with ROCm support so they run on AMD devices. I don’t currently have access to AMD hardware, so I reached out to devcloudrequests@amd.com to request remote access for this porting work. I’ve also received some cloud compute credits through AMD’s developer program, which I’m grateful for. My main goal, though, is to test these packa

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

ROS News for the week of July 20th, 2026 I’ve had quite the week! In the past seven days, I’ve been to Open Sauce , AMD’s developer conference , and now I’m at Teardown in Portland. It might have also been my birthday this week. I’ve run into so many fantastic people building wonderful ROS robots, including a working Johnny 5 replica, a giant art robot with cast aluminum components, a hexapod with a 25 kg payload, a room full of SO-101s, a controllable robot tentacle running Kilted, and the wond

Hi everyone, I’ve just published Part 2 of my Pavlov Mini Wheel series, where I take a deeper look at the software architecture behind my ROS 2 autonomous robot. This article follows the complete perception pipeline—from a single camera frame to a navigation goal—and explains how the system is organized using independent ROS 2 nodes. Topics covered include: ROS 2 node architecture Ball detection with OpenCV 3D target localization Publishing /ball/point and /ball/visible Generating navigation goa

Hi ROS community, I’m a high school student and wanted to share a package I’ve just released into the Jazzy distribution: scan_detection_fusion , a reusable ROS 2 library that fuses 2D LiDAR scans with camera object detections to produce range-resolved, semantically labeled obstacles and class-aware ground footprints for navigation. The problem it solves: a monocular detector knows what an object is and roughly which direction it lies, but not how far away it is. A 2D LiDAR knows precise distanc

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

Hi everyone, I’ve been working on this for a while, and I’m really excited to announce the release of Polka v0.5.0 ! Above: 3 Robosense Airy Lidars, deskewing and voxel+range filter enabled. If a set of points is not useful to you, it shouldn’t waste compute propagating via DDS and increasing the compute of your pipeline downstream. Polka is a node that does all your lidar processing 2D or 3D in one efficient package, merge a 2D cloud or scan, flag sensor sync/drop issues, filtering by your need

Hi everyone, I want to share a simulation I’ve been working on locally. It explores a concept I’m passionate about: safety shouldn’t just be about a robot stopping before it hits a physical wall. It should also be about a robot understanding when a human command crosses a boundary it shouldn’t. I have built QERRA-v2 Classical to act as a Moral-Boundary Execution Guard — a software gatekeeper that evaluates the intent of natural language commands and blocks execution if behavioral boundaries are

Hey everyone, Just wanted to advertise a ros-interface-diff-checker tool I built, in case it is useful for others. As you’ve probably learnt the hard way, almost any edit to a ros interface (msg/action/srv) definition (add, remove, reorder, retype a field) silently breaks wire compatibility between mismatched nodes, and makes old ros bags unreadable (CDR serialization is positional). REP-2011 should eventually address evolving types at runtime, but there’s currently nothing to check for an accid

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 - Ga

[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 all, Just a heads up: there will be no July meeting tomorrow. I hope everyone is enjoying summer and getting out on the water! If you have ~30 seconds (literally, it’s one question) please fill out this survey with any topic ideas or suggestions you might have for future meetings. Thanks, Isaac 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic

The ROS PMC meeting for this week was on Tuesday, July 21, 2026. The notes from the meeting are available at ROS PMC weekly meeting agenda . ROS PMC Business TGC meeting Thursday, July 23, 2026 to discuss funding proposals. The ROS Project submitted four: A joint SIG proposal with the Infrastructure PMC to improve continuous integration. A joint proposal with Gazebo on canonical examples for the ROS Project. Improvements to the ROS logging mechanisms (from the Client Library Working Group). Codi

Hi Gazebo Community! This week’s meeting was held on Mon, Jul 27, 2026 6:00 PM UTC and the following is a summary: PMC Business Promoted Luca Della Vedova to full committer. New agenda items ROSCon Planning : Birds of a Feather (BoF) Session : Planning for the BoF session on Tue, Sep 22, 2026 12:00 AM UTC ( Discourse thread ). Ideas include community testimonials, progress updates, next-gen Gazebo overview, and domain-specific check-ins (e.g. maritime, aerial). PMC Meeting Schedule : Discussed a

I’d like to ask for any feedback or guidance on the framework that we just released. Peppy Open Source — Peppy Robotics Framework Peppy is an open-source robotics framework to build and deploy robot software for AI robots and humanoids. Describe your robot stack as modular nodes in a single config. 3 posts - 4 participants Read full topic

Problem I keep hitting: a mobility / traverse claim can look fine on firm ground (or a firm sim) and then die on soft soil — after you’ve already spent hardware time. I open-sourced a small referee for that check (not a Gazebo plugin, not a ROS package yet): same body · two soils · Safe must allow · Hostile must refuse Rust Bekker sinkage · you pass URDF + optional soils JSON Repo: github.com GitHub - StanByriukov02/ha-production-gate: Production Gate v0.2 — Dual Bekker truth before... Productio

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

Hey fellow aerial roboticists! We’re on summer holiday for the month of July 2026 with a really exciting session of the ROS Aerial Robotics community working group meeting lined up for August 2026! Date/Time : Wed, Aug 26, 2026 5:00 PM UTC → Wed, Aug 26, 2026 6:00 PM UTC Meeting link : Google Meet meeting (As announced on the ROS community calendar ) Alongside an update of the aerial robotics landscape and events, we will have a presentation by Sanket Sharma who is a dev-team member at ArduPilot

Hi ROS community, Humanoid robotics is one of the fastest-growing fields in robotics today. Yet despite the rapid progress, there is still no comprehensive learning path that teaches the complete modern humanoid robotics stack. To bridge this gap, we’ve created the Humanoid Robotics Masterclass , starting in September 2026—a hands-on online program that helps engineers develop the skills needed to build and program modern humanoid robots, from mechanical design and electronics to control systems

Hey ROS community! I’m excited to announce today a new company building tools to help everyone fielding robots: Agency Tool Company Our first product, ATC Deploy, will ship your ROS systems onto your robots faster than ever before: https://youtu.be/jx0rLRVa06s?si=iOoZ4FOQL4Fz3v8U Learn more at https://agencytool.com/ and join the waitlist at ATC Waitlist 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic

Welcome to This Week at Open Robotics Headquarters! This is a new and (hopefully) regular update on what’s happening behind the scenes of Open Robotics. These updates are to give folks some insight into what we do, as well as basic information about what we have in the works. Because I hope to keep them short, I’ll only list some of the highlights from the week. As always, questions/comments/feedback welcome! This first edition will be a little longer though, as I share a quick refresher on the

The ROS PMC meeting for this week was on Tuesday, July 28, 2026. The notes from the meeting are available at ROS PMC weekly meeting agenda . ROS PMC Business Async Formal Decision: Rolling sync policy. The proposal has been posted for a week with no negative feedback, so @mjcarroll will send the async vote out this afternoon. It enables automatic Rolling syncs to main. The Rolling ROS Boss will own the threshold, with input from the next release’s ROS Boss once that person exists. @yadunund hold

We are hiring!!! Feel free to reach out if you’re interested in this role. (and Japan ) TriOrb is a robotics startup headquartered in Kitakyushu, Japan, with R&D at AIST (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) Tokyo Waterfront and a growing presence in Detroit, Michigan. We have been selected for the Deep-Tech Startups Support Program (DTSU) run by NEDO, a Japanese government agency and the country’s largest public R&D funding organization — and we have active inquirie

I would like to propose a possible enhancement to Open-RMF’s lift selection mechanism. From my understanding, when a robot plans a route that involves changing floors, the planner also decides which lift the robot will use. If there are multiple lifts serving the same lift lobby, the planner typically selects the one with the lowest estimated cost, so the robot commits to a specific lift before reaching the lobby. Instead, would it make sense to plan only up to the lift lobby , rather than to a

Hello, I’m a mechanical engineer/controls guy/self taught C++ programmer (please forgive (and correct) me if I use the wrong terminology). I’ve been using ROS professionally for a few years. I started with humble. It’s got it’s warts but for the most part I love it! The most frequent complaint I hear from my “real” software developer co-workers is that “ROS is bloated”. I never really knew what they were talking about until it came time to actually package and “ship” our code. Here are my though

I’ve spent the last few months building 𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆 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 𝗴𝗮𝘇𝗲𝗯𝗼 and 𝗥𝘃𝗶𝘇. But now I’m at a point where the technical part feels solid. The new challenge is figuring out how to reach the right users for such a 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁. If you’ve

Register here - registration is handled by the University of Edinburgh’s ePay service. Partial programme is up as well: three days of workshops, deep dives, talks, lightning talks, tours and demos. Early registration closes on 31 August. Late registration then runs until 14 October. Tickets are limited and go first-come, first-served. That includes workshops, which you pick while registering, so if there’s one you particularly want, don’t leave it too late. Do not worry if you can’t get your pic

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/h

Introducing Pavlov Mini Wheel — an open-source ROS2-based autonomous quadruped robot platform. Pavlov Mini Wheel is a robotics project focused on developing an autonomous four-legged robot capable of perceiving its environment and interacting with it. The system combines: ROS2 Humble for robot communication and control Gazebo for simulation and testing Raspberry Pi 4B for high-level processing Arduino Mega for low-level hardware control The main goal of the project is to create a robot that can

We are pleased to announce that the Buildfarmer Dashboard is publicly available at: osrf.github.io Buildfarmer Dashboard What is the Buildfarmer Dashboard? The dashboard is a public, read-only view into the health of the ROS and Gazebo CI regressions, created and maintained by buildfarmers ( @miguelgonrod , @Crola1702 ) , a subteam of the OSRF Infrastructure PMC. Until now, getting answers to common CI questions ( why is this test failing? is this a known issue? is this platform-specific? ) requ

How much time did you spend on your last robot before it actually moved in Gazebo? Not designing it. Bringing it up. Writing URDFs. Configuring ros2_control . Fixing TF trees. Debugging controllers that refuse to activate. Chasing launch issues. Finding out a single missing parameter prevented the entire robot from moving. After repeating that workflow enough times, I started building a tool to automate it. Supported CAD sources STEP SolidWorks assemblies Onshape assemblies The generated model i

The next ROS Deliberation Community Group meeting will be held on Mon, Aug 17, 2026 3:00 PM UTC . IMPORTANT: This is an “off-cycle” meeting. We are combining the August and September meetings into this one, since we also did not want to have a meeting too close to ROSCon. This means the next meeting after this one is planned for October 5, 2026. Google Meet link: Google Meet meeting Agenda: Tool spotlight: PyTrees release 2.5 Presentation: Contract-Grounded Behavior Tree Synthesis via Coding Age