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0.Introduction This project demonstrates a vision-based smart ergonomic workstation built with an AgileX PiPER 6-DoF robotic arm, Orbbec RGB-D camera, and ROS 2. Using YOLOv5-Face and depth perception, the system detects the user’s 3D position and controls the robotic arm to adjust the display orientation automatically. Safety Considerations This prototype does not include certified safety functions, such as collision detection, human safety monitoring, speed monitoring, or emergency stop contro

Hi everyone, I’m a PhD student, and after a few years my codebase has grown quite a bit, spread across different git repos, Docker containers, and machines. I knew it would be good to add some tests to avoid regressions and losing work or features. However, writing unit tests alone as a student would probably cost me another year of my PhD. So instead I went for integration tests, which are easier to write in a ROS environment and make more sense for a pipeline where the internal functions keep

Hi Open-RMF team, I am currently investigating the Beacon functionality in Open-RMF / RMF Web, especially rmf_fleet_msgs/BeaconState and the beacon_state topic. I found the BeaconState message definition, the beacon handling code in rmf-web , and some unit tests for the beacon dashboard components. However, I could not find documentation explaining how extensively the Beacon functionality has actually been tested or used. I would like to clarify the following: Have Beacons in Open-RMF been teste

Hi everyone, I’d like to share my first complete autonomous mobile robot project: an Autonomous Warehouse AMR simulation built with ROS 2 Jazzy, Gazebo Harmonic and Nav2 . The robot is a differential-drive AMR equipped with a simulated 2D GPU LiDAR and can autonomously navigate inside a warehouse environment using: AMCL for localization robot_localization EKF for odometry / TF SmacPlanner2D for global path planning Regulated Pure Pursuit for path tracking Local and global obstacle-aware costmaps

Hello Community! Here’s the information for our next August Meeting where we’ll talk about running reinforce learning algorithms using Gazebo. “Gym Gazebo Sim is an educational software toolkit developed to help beginner Gazebo users use the Gymnasium API by the Farama Foundation for reinforcement learning. The toolkit was developed for an introductory course for Gazebo Sim, ROS 2, and RL. It simplifies development for students by providing a base class to pause, resume, and step the simulation,

So I went into a bit of a rabbit whole last week! CI on windows kept on getting this particular error: 2: [WARNING] [python.exe-2]: 'SIGINT' sent to process[python.exe-2] not supported on Windows, escalating to 'SIGTERM' Apparently, windows does not have a proper way to handle SIGINT, which means that it always straight goes to the ungraceful shutdown of SIGTERM. So I thought “oh! is that perhaps the reason why we keep getting all of the unhandy access violation ( 3221225477) that we see ever si

Have you ever set up dominoes for a truly epic fall ? There’s a whole lot of setup that precedes an impressive end result . That’s what it felt like in Open Robotics HQ this past week. So many of the things we do take a lot of work and yak shaving before they show any results. Sure, those results can be impressive , but that setup…you need to keep reminding yourself that you are making progress, even if it doesn’t feel that way. You’ve all been there and know the feeling. In the past week we’ve

The ROS PMC meeting for this week was on Tuesday, August 4, 2026. The notes from the meeting are available at ROS PMC weekly meeting agenda . ROS PMC Business Async Formal Decision: Rolling sync policy. PASSED (11 of 16 PMC Constituents approving). Decision taken by asynchronous vote under Charter Article 4.12.ii, on a matter brought under Article 4.10.i. Proposal: Rethinking Rolling Syncs . Votes recorded per Article 4.14: PMC Constituent Vote @christophebedard APPROVE @mjcarroll APPROVE @Migue

I am prototyping **EdgeAI Forge**, a local-first engineering architecture intended to help generate, test, benchmark, and document ROS 2 and machine-vision pipelines. The initial target workflow is a ROS 2 vision pipeline generator. Given a requirement such as: > Read frames from a USB camera, run object detection, publish detections, expose health status, benchmark performance, and prepare deployment to Jetson. the system should eventually produce reviewed artifacts including: - package manifes

Hi everyone! I’m a 2nd-year Mechanical Engineering student at NIT Jalandhar, currently exploring Robotics and Automation. I’m starting my journey with C++/Python, electronics, CAD and eventually ROS 2. My long-term goal is to work on real robotics projects and eventually pursue research/internship opportunities in robotics. I’m looking to connect with: • Students who are also learning Robotics/ROS 2 • People working on interesting robotics projects • Researchers/engineers who are open to collabo

Hi all, I’m an MEng Robotics & AI student at UCL working on perception/tracking pipelines (recently built a person re-ID and tracking evaluation pipeline, and a Gaussian-splat reconstruction quality evaluator). I’m trying to understand a specific problem better: how do teams currently notice when a perception or sensor-fusion stack has silently degraded in production, before it causes a visible failure? Do you rely on manual spot-checks, logging + alerts, a formal calibration schedule, or someth

I’m a 4th-year Computer Engineering student in Palestine (Birzeit University, graduating 2027). I focus on embedded systems and robotics. I have US citizenship, but I never lived or worked in the US. There’s no embedded or robotics industry here at all, so I can’t really build experience or a network locally. I’m trying to move to the US, but I’m not sure where to start. My background: ROS2 control software for a multi-agent robotics platform, FreeRTOS firmware on custom boards, and a competitio

Hi, i have developed mppi_controller_cuda , a CUDA-accelerated MPPI (Model Predictive Path Integral) local planner, built on the MPPI-Generic framework and based on nav2_mppi_controller . Repo: GitHub - datledoan/mppi_controller_cuda: CUDA-accelerated MPPI controller for ROS · GitHub Two branches: noetic — ROS1, works with move_base and move_base_flex . jazzy — ROS2 Jazzy / Nav2, drop-in controller_server plugin. Demo: 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic

Hello Open Robotics community! We are excited to share our open-source Fire Simulation Plugin for Gazebo Harmonic / Gazebo Sim 8. The plugin provides a configurable fire simulation framework for simulating fire interaction with objects in a Gazebo environment. Features - Fire and flame simulation - Smoke and particle effects - Heat propagation - Distance- and direction-based fire exposure - Progressive ignition - Progressive object burning - Damage accumulation - Charring / burn effects - Progre

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

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 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

We’re happy to announce 129 new packages and 372 updates are now available in ROS Lyrical. This sync was tagged on ros/rosdistro as lyrical/2026-08-07 and on ros2/ros2 as release-lyrical-20260807 . See Release ROS Lyrical Luth - Patch Release 2 (2026/08/07) · ros2/ros2 · GitHub for comprehensive archives. Thank you to every maintainer and contributor who made these updates available! Package Updates for ROS Lyrical Updates to Ubuntu Resolute (amd64) (click for more details) Updates to Ubuntu Res

We’re happy to announce 40 new packages and 747 updates to ROS 2 Humble Hawksbill This sync was tagged as humble/2026-08-07 . Package Updates for humble Added Packages [40]: ros-humble-autoware-command-gate : 1.9.0-1 ros-humble-autoware-command-gate-dbgsym: 1.9.0-1 ros-humble-autoware-core : 1.9.0-1 ros-humble-autoware-core-localization : 1.9.0-1 ros-humble-autoware-ndt-scan-matcher : 1.9.0-1 ros-humble-autoware-ndt-scan-matcher-dbgsym: 1.9.0-1 ros-humble-bosch-navigator-bridge: 2.1.16-1 ros-hum

Hi everyone, We are excited to share GZ Weather System , an open-source collection of realistic Rain and Snow simulation worlds for Gazebo Sim (Harmonic) built using Gazebo Sim’s built-in ParticleEmitter system. The goal of this project is to provide lightweight, reusable weather environments that can be integrated into robotics simulations without requiring custom rendering plugins. Features Realistic Rain simulation Realistic Snow simulation Runtime particle emission control using Gazebo Trans

ROS News for the Week August 3rd, 2026 Congratulations to our Japanese colleagues on another successful ROSConJP . The photos and videos coming out of the event look amazing. We’ve got a ton of great events coming up. Next Thursday we’ve schedule a ROS By-The-Bay meetup at InOrbit in Mountain View. Foxglove’s Actuate conference is the following week followed by a workshop for the Scenic project at UC Santa Cruz. I’ve also organized a ROS Industry Night at Trossen Robotics showroom in San Francis

Hello everyone, I’d like to share frontier_exploration_ros2 , a modern open-source C++ project for autonomous exploration with ROS 2 and Nav2. The project started around traditional WFD-style frontier exploration, but has grown into a more complete exploration framework focused on improving frontier quality, target ordering, navigation efficiency, and practical ROS 2 integration. Using new methods such as Dynamic Programming. The exploration logic is separated into a C++ library, so it can also

A small project building a growing 3D occupancy map (OctoMap) on a TurtleBot3 Burger with an Intel RealSense D435i. The robot streams depth, color, and wheel odometry over WiFi; a laptop turns the depth into a point cloud and octomap_server builds the voxel map, updating live in RViz. Every session records to a bag and replays offline. A few things that were worth working out: camera_info QoS. depth_image_proc ’s PointCloudXyzNode subscribes to the depth camera_info as TRANSIENT_LOCAL , but the

Hi all — I’ve been building rosbag-resurrector, an analysis workbench for ROS 2 (MCAP) bags. It’s deliberately not another 3D viewer — it treats a bag like a DataFrame: pandas-like access, a DuckDB index across many bags, health/QC validation, semantic frame search, cross-bag overlay, and one-command export to LeRobot / RLDS / Parquet. It bridges to PlotJuggler over WebSocket rather than competing on plotting. v0.8 (released this week) adds a notebook-style web UI — open a bag, plot a signal, br

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

Introducing CYCLO: A Modular Software Platform for Physical AI Physical AI Open-source Platform: CYCLO Building Physical AI systems often means dealing with fragmented tools for data, training, simulation, and hardware control. To solve this, our team developed CYCLO: a modular, open-source framework designed to connect the entire Physical AI workflow into a single stream. Key Features: • Cyclo Intelligence: Data recording, LeRobot dataset conversion, and imitation/reinforcement learning policy

This week the ROS Special Interest Group for Physical AI is happy to share that we will be hosting Encord to share how their work connects to the work of the SIG. The meeting will be at Fri, Aug 7, 2026 3:00 PM UTC for meeting details please find the event on the Google Calendar for future reference it’s embedded into the ROS Governance page in the documentation. 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic

Hi folks, For those interested in testing or training robotic systems in simulation, the annual Scenic Workshop for current and potential users and developers of the Scenic probabilistic programming language will be held at UC Santa Cruz on August 20-21. Scenic is a language for environment modeling and data generation for autonomous intelligent cyber-physical systems, and has been used to help design and evaluate robots in a variety of simulators, including Gazebo. The workshop will include foo

Hello Lyrical maintainers! Starting now, I will be holding new Lyrical ros/rosdistro release PRs with a plan to sync ROS Lyrical packages to the main apt repo on 2026-08-07. Please comment here if there are any issues I should know about before performing the sync. There are currently 563 packages waiting to sync and 13 regressions . 2 posts - 1 participant Read full topic

Younuo Zhixing (UnoMove) | Build the “Brain Architecture” for Robots Vision-Only · Embodied AI · Edge-Deployed Large Models · Real-World Deployment Website: younuozhixing.com ｜Location: Suzhou, China Who We Are Younuo Zhixing (UnoMove) — a vision-only, no-LiDAR-stacking embodied AI company. While others “patch” perception with LiDAR, we use cameras + AI to make robots truly understand the world . Our core product, UnoBox , is more than an edge-computing box — it’s a digital brain that gives robo

Hi everyone, I’m new to Nav2 and I am currently using Isaac Sim as my simulation platform. The AMR is the official Nova Carter, equipped with a single front-mounted 2D LiDAR. Navigation works well in a relatively small indoor factory environment. The AMR follows the planned path correctly and AMCL localization appears stable. However, after switching to the larger road environment shown in the attached images, I started experiencing some unusual behavior: The AMR moves in a zigzag pattern during

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

We’re planning for a Humble sync on Fri, Aug 7, 2026 4:00 AM UTC . There are currently 703 regressions and 477 packages to release. The very high number of regressions is due to an issue with low disk space on buildfarm agents. The infra team is working on it, so hopefully packages get successfully built over the next few days. Otherwise, I will push the sync date back a bit. We will start holding rosdistro PRs for the sync today ( Tue, Aug 4, 2026 4:00 AM UTC ) and will plan to do the sync on F

Hi everyone, Here is Simulation Demo 3 for QERRA-v2 Classical. In robotics, we take physical safety boundaries for granted — if a robot is about to hit a wall or a person, it stops. But in real-world HRI, moral boundaries carry just as much practical value. A robot that blindly executes a directive to coerce an employee, doctor analytics, or gaslight staff creates massive legal and operational fallout. Practicality and moral guardrails aren’t opposites — they are real-world allies for deploying

Hello, and welcome back to This Week at Open Robotics HQ! Did you know we have 53 sponsors (and counting) for ROSCon Global ? And that each one of those sponsors needs assistance with logistics and planning and the like? And all of them are keen to learn more about, get intros to, and work with the community? Just keeping everything straight is practically a full-time job. We’re especially happy about how many OSRA members are increasing their community support by sponsoring ROSCon Global! Let’s

Hi everyone, I would like to introduce ros2_cuda_ipc, an experimental ROS 2 library for sharing GPU-resident data between processes without copying it through CPU memory. github.com GitHub - dskkato/ros2_cuda_ipc: ROS 2/CUDA IPC support ROS 2/CUDA IPC support Motivation GPU-accelerated perception pipelines often separate camera or LiDAR preprocessing, DNN inference, visualization, and encoding into different components. Composable nodes can avoid inter-process copies, but they also place compone

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