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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 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? 2 posts - 2 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

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

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

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

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

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 m

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

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

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

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

Sharing a course project (Politecnico di Torino, team of five) replicating and extending Yousuf & Kadri’s 2020 ANN+FLS localization paper ( Robotica , doi:10.1017/S0263574720000351) in ROS 2 Humble/Gazebo. Full writeup with equations below; looking for critique, especially on the FLS results, they’re weaker than the reference paper and I think I know why, but curious what this community thinks. Repo: GitHub - yousefh112/ros2_neurofuzzy_ekf_localization: ROS 2 hybrid indoor/outdoor localization u

AI WORKER #17: A Complete Guide to Imitation Learning with Cyclo Intelligence The ROBOTIS Humanoid Division is excited to release Cyclo Intelligence, an open-source Physical AI platform designed for imitation learning workflows on AI Worker. Setting up real-robot imitation learning pipelines can be complex, requiring seamless integration from teleoperation data collection and dataset conversion to model training (supporting GR00T, PI, ACT, etc.) and real-time robot inference. Cyclo Intelligence

Topic redirected to: Buildfarmer Dashboard: ROS & Gazebo test health in one place Hi everyone! We are excited to share that the Buildfarm Dashboard is now live and ready for you to explore! This tool was proudly developed by the buildfarmers with the invaluable support and suggestions of the ROS, Gazebo and Infra PMCs . Check it out here: Buildfarm Dashboard What is the purpose of this dashboard? Our goal is to create a centralized hub for both experienced committee members and new volunteers lo

TL;DR: Of 14 robotics programs I benchmarked, none defines a competency model, none offers a branched progression, and none gives an open learner criterion-referenced assessment. Below is a proposed ROS 2 learning path architecture — a v0.1 discussion draft for the people who teach and learn ROS to shape. It is not a course, not a product, and nothing is for sale. Every structured ROS 2 curriculum I could find is a linear sequence: Phase 1→5, Week 0→6, Course 1→6. That looks reasonable — it is h

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

Lyrical Luth has shipped and Rolling is back to being the active development target for M Turtle (May 2027) and the cycles after it. We want to change how packages move from Rolling into the main distribution mirror. Current process Getting a package from the build farm’s testing repository into the main apt archive requires someone on the release team to manually trigger a sync. A few consequences of that: Syncs happen in batches, whenever someone has time to run and announce them. A single reg

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 all, I’ve open-sourced ros2-fast-stereo , a ROS2 (Jazzy) workspace for real-time stereo depth estimation using a TensorRT-accelerated port of NVIDIA’s Fast-FoundationStereo model. Recently, foundational approaches in downstream perception tasks such as FastFoundationStereo have been closing the accuracy gap with offline, non-real-time stereo methods, but the surrounding integration work needed to actually deploy them on arbitrary camera rigs has lagged behind. Moreover, most real-time stereo

Barcelona ROS crowd, robotics fans, and curious minds — this one’s for you! Since opening our Barcelona office, ANYbotics has been eager to connect with the local robotics community. Now’s the chance! Join us for the next ROS Meetup Barcelona, taking place at DFactory Barcelona. On the agenda: • Quick-fire technical talks from our engineers, sharing real lessons from building and deploying robots in the field • A walk through DFactory, featuring a live ANYmal demo • Open conversation with voices

Hi Gazebo Community! This week’s meeting was held on Mon, Jul 20, 2026 6:00 PM UTC and the following is a summary: PMC Business @caguero has volunteered to represent Gazebo at the Technical Governance Committee (TGC). Thanks to @scpeters for his work as the outgoing representative! New agenda items Dashboard Consolidation Strategy : Discussed consolidating various project dashboards (such as the backports tracking dashboard and the legacy gz-dashboard repository) into a centralized repository un

Hello everyone, We very much appreciated the erlerobotics gym-gazebo framework for training RL agents in ROS1 and Gazebo Classic. And we wanted to be able to do the same in ROS2 Jazzy and Gazebo Sim Harmonic. So we followed erlerobotics lead and released gym-gazebo-sim: github.com GitHub - ENPH353/gym-gazebo-sim: API extension for Gymnasium in Gazebo Harmonic master API extension for Gymnasium in Gazebo Harmonic. Contribute to ENPH353/gym-gazebo-sim development by creating an account on GitHub.

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

Open-Source Modular CNC Gantry Platform for Robotics & Automation I’m developing a modular, open-source CNC gantry platform that serves as a foundation for a wide range of automation and robotics applications. Instead of designing a machine for a single purpose, the goal is to create a flexible XY (and optional Z) motion system that can be adapted by simply changing the end effector. Possible applications include: Laser engraving and cutting Fabric and vinyl cutting Pen plotting and artwork PCB

Hi everyone, My friends and I are exploring the idea of creating beginner-friendly learning resources that explain robotics mathematics and classic robotics papers with a strong focus on intuition, derivations, and practical implementation, not just the final equations. The goal is to bridge the gap between reading a paper and actually understanding and implementing it. Topics could include state estimation, SLAM, optimisation, control, motion planning, and computer vision. Before investing time

Hi, I’m pretty new to marine robotics, I have been looking for a simulator for underwater vision guided manipulation and found DAVE but when I checked the camera topic the rgb image is clean, where as the one I saw in stoneFish looked more realistic but the rov/auv available in it doesnt has a manipulator in it. Has anyone been at similar situation before?I don’t know how or what to do about this situation. I’m looking for any kind of info that’ll help me with my work. Thank you in advance 1 pos

ROS News for the week of July 13th, 2026 Yesterday our colleagues at the Neobotics Foundation swung by ROS By-the-Bay for some human versus robot RC car races. If you want to try racing against an autonomous RC car we’ll be at Open Sauce all weekend. If you can’t make it to Open Sauce you can always just build your own . Speaking of autonomous driving, our colleagues at Autoware have released a free and open source L2 autonomy stack called Vision Pilot . Autonomous surface finishing (i.e. grindi