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For anyone running ROS across more than a single machine or LAN, how are you handling networking today? I’m particularly curious about setups where you need remote access to robots, ROS 1/ROS 2 communication across sites or subnets, or connectivity between robots and backend/fleet systems. What do you use? OpenVPN / traditional VPN Tailscale ZeroTier Self-managed WireGuard Other No VPN Click to view the poll. Would be great to hear in the comments what your setup looks like, especially for ROS 2

I’ve been working through how AUV/ROV mission data is actually structured in ROS 2, and ended up writing two things that might be useful to others coming at marine robotics from the data side rather than the controls side. A field guide to the data patterns — five structural patterns in how untethered vehicles record sonar, navigation and telemetry, with each term explained three ways (technical, plain English, what it’s used for): ROS 2 Data Patterns in Underwater Robotics — An Animated Field G

Hi all, A reminder that our next working group meeting is coming up on Tuesday, August 25th . If you haven’t already, please take a look at Survey - Open Ocean Software and try to fill it out ahead of time. Survey results continue to inform WG direction, discussion, and opportunities for impact on the community. Here are the details: When: Last Tuesday of each month, 4–5pm EST This month: August 25th, 2026 August agenda: Community project showcase & discussion This month we’re skipping the exter

Hi I’m building a digital twin of my robotic arm. The physical robot is already built, and in ROS 2 simulation Joint 1–5 are working correctly. I’m stuck with the gripper kinematic closed-loop. The left gear is driven by a servo, and the right gear should mimic it. Each gear drives its respective finger. The problem is the support link: mechanically, it connects the finger and the gripper base, but in URDF a link can have only one parent. So I can connect it to the finger, but then it becomes di

Hello all, I’ve built a working runtime (I call it xZane) that sits between an AI model and physical actuation. The model proposes intents; a deterministic layer validates each one against the device’s declared capabilities before anything reaches the hardware, and the device’s own safety function runs underneath, independent of the model. I’ve been running it across three quite different devices with the same four to five models (Claude, GPT and Gemini in the cloud; Mistral and Qwen locally): a

There have been several new and updated packages in Kilted since it was released, and it’s time to sync those new features and fixes to the main apt and dnf repositories. There are currently 0 regressions and 471 packages to release. We will start holding rosdistro PRs for the sync on Thu, Aug 20, 2026 7:00 AM UTC , with a plan to do the sync on Fri, Aug 21, 2026 7:00 AM UTC . 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic

Quick reminder that regular price ROSCon Global ticket sales end Monday, Mon, Aug 24, 2026 12:00 AM UTC ! Later next week, we are planning to release a complete list of after-hours ROSCon Global events. This includes an OSRF hackathon at the fancy new Google office in Toronto, a bus tour of the Waterloo robotics ecosystem with stops at Otto Motors , Clearpath Robotics , and the University of Waterloo’s Robohub , multiple after-parties sponsored by friends and colleagues at Autoware and Rootly ,

We’re happy to announce 104 new packages and 150 updates are now available in ROS Lyrical. This sync was tagged as lyrical/2026-08-19 . 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 Resolute (arm64) (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

I’d like to share VirtuLayer , a web-based GUI I developed to simplify the configuration and usage of my Virtual Layer Plugin for Nav2 . The Virtual Layer Plugin can be used to add virtual geometries to the Nav2 costmap. VirtuLayer provides a visual interface for creating these geometries on a map and generating the configuration required by the plugin. The idea is to avoid manually defining the geometries and configuration, and instead provide a simple visual workflow for creating and experimen

Hi everyone, I’ve been working on an open-source project called ROS 2 Inspector , aimed at making it easier to understand the architecture of an unfamiliar or large ROS 2 workspace before running it. The idea came from a problem I’ve repeatedly found interesting in ROS 2 projects: When documentation is incomplete or outdated, understanding a workspace often means combining source-code inspection, launch-file analysis, grep/search, runtime tools such as rqt_graph , and a lot of manual exploration

This week the ROS Special Interest Group for Physical AI is happy to share that we will be hosting Andrea Miller from CMU to share her research on how people are using AI in robotics development. You may have seen one of her surveys earlier this year: Call for Participants in a Research Study on ROS Developer Experiences Projects I shared this survey on ROS General previously, but I am looking for additional participants and want to hear from you! We are a group of software engineering researche

ROSCon Global Preparations INTENSIFY​ . We have officially filled all of the slots for exhibit hall and the startup pavilion!. We’re working with our sponsors to share their news with the community. We’ve got a LOT of big announcements getting unveiled in Toronto, so if you’re not there you’re gonna miss out. Sponsors aren’t the only ones needing coordination. We’re overjoyed that many companies are asking to host side events too. Juggling all of them is a feat worthy of a trophy. Have you regis

I maintain Ganglion, an open-source substrate for reaching ROS 2 robots on networks you do not control. This is a writeup of making a five-profile degraded-link matrix (clean, lossy, high-latency, asymmetric, nat-relay) a required CI gate. One correction folded in, since I claimed otherwise in the latency simulation thread ( How do you simulate latency? - #5 by sokstherobot ): netem’s seed cannot be pinned. Loss and jitter draw from the kernel RNG and there is no seed parameter to set. A gate th

Hi everyone, I’d like to propose the creation of a local ROS user group for the Philippines. ROS2 adoption in the country is still very limited, there are only a handful of developers actively working with it, and most students, hobbyists, and engineers interested in robotics have very little exposure to the ecosystem or a community to learn from. I’m working to change that by building a grassroots ROS2 community from the ground up, starting with beginner workshops, project showcases, and shared

Hi! At Foxglove, we announced quite a few new features today and wanted to share them with the community. Here is what we’ve been cooking: Search Experience You can query all your recordings in Foxglove and quickly get to the data you need. The example query I always demo is: ` /mti/imu/linear_acceleration.x > 11 `. It gets more exciting as of Today, because you can combine the topic search with semantic search, and for example run the following query: ` visual("stairs") AND (/anymal/imu/linear_

The OSRA , in collaboration with our new Special Interest Group on Physical AI (SIG PAI), just published a blog post that details their recent efforts, thought processes, and roadmap for the future of Physical AI and ROS . We would love it if you took a look and shared it with your friends and colleagues! As AI rapidly reshapes robotics, software tools specialized for Physical AI are appearing at a rapid pace. This has led the community to ask questions about the future of existing tools designe

Hi Gazebo Community! This week’s meeting was held on Mon, Aug 17, 2026 6:00 PM UTC and the following is a summary: PMC Business None New agenda items Gazebo-M Naming Process : The namestorming process for Gazebo-M continues on the namestorming sheet (not public) . The PMC agreed to extend the name filtering phase by one week to allow more community members and team participants to contribute. Updates C++20 Migration & Rendering C++20 Progress & Ogre 1.9 Dependencies (tracking issue: gz-cmake#580

Hi Gazebo Community! This week’s meeting was held on Mon, Aug 10, 2026 6:00 PM UTC and the following is a summary: PMC Business None New agenda items Started the Gazebo-M name process : The Gazebo M release process has officially commenced with committers submitting naming proposals. This release sequence skips K and L versions to sync the name with ROS. Buildfarm Security & Infrastructure : Build Farm Infrastructure Challenges : The buildfarm is still not 100% stable after the Anubis update. Th

Hi all, I’m posting on behalf of @nathanbrooks . Here’s meeting notes of today’s MoveIt community meeting . Please review, and give feedback on this thread or relevant tickets. One liner: Moveit2 is getting ready for the first Lyrical release, stay tuned. As for paticipation, while maintainer team will try posting reminders on discourse per every meeting in the future, we also encourage subscribing to the community events calendar Changes to the OSRF events calendars (There may not be a good way

The px4_msgs package takes a lot of time to compile. It would be nice to have it on APT. I’ve seen that it is actually built by the ROS2 buildfarm for Noble: build.ros2.org Jdev__px4_msgs__ubuntu_noble_amd64 - Jenkins however, it seems not to be available on apt, e.g. by running sudo apt install ros-jazzy-px4-msgs Am I missing something? Thanks in advance 3 posts - 2 participants Read full topic

A little over a year ago @shouheng and I launched Bagel here. We’ll we’re back with Bagel 2.0 ! And we’d love this community’s eyes on it. For those of you that are unfamilar: Bagel lets you talk to your robotics data instead of writing one-off scripts. Point Claude (or any MCP client, including fully local models via Ollama) at a bag and ask: “what was the peak z-deceleration?”, “summarize this bag”, "find every hard brake and cut ±10s snippets. Answers are not LLM guesses. Bagel writes your to

Hi ROS community! Have you ever debugged a problem on Humble or Jazzy for hours… only to discover the fix already existed on rolling, but was never backported? You’re not alone — and I’d like to fix this systematically. The pain In principle, all bug fixes should be backported to the supported downstream distributions — precisely because they are fixes. Today, however, this depends entirely on the maintainer’s manual effort and judgment, so backports happen on a need-to-do or requested basis rat

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 2026-08-19. Please comment here if there are any issues I should know about before performing the sync. There are currently 247 packages waiting to sync and 48 regressions . 2 posts - 1 participant Read full topic

Hello ROS Community, The OSRF Infrastructure Project is planning to update the Jenkins version of https://ci.ros2.org as part of our ongoing efforts to maintain and improve the ROS buildfarm infrastructure. To facilitate this migration, the following services will experience downtime during the maintenance window: https://ci.ros2.org (Jenkins) will be temporarily unavailable or in shutdown mode (not running jobs). The migration is scheduled to begin on Wednesday Wed, Aug 19, 2026 11:00 AM UTC (1

Hi everyone , Sereact is hiring roboticists in both Stuttgart and Boston! We’re building the intelligence that enables robots to perceive, reason, and act autonomously in the real world, with a strong focus on manipulation and deploying robotics systems in industrial environments. Following our $110M Series B , we’re growing our robotics teams significantly and expanding in the US with a new office in Boston . We’re particularly interested in people with experience in ROS 2, C++, Python, motion

Hey guys, I’m building Exstrike. It’s a real-time safety filters (using Control Barrier Functions + computer vision) designed to prevent physical crashes when autonomous robots or AI navigation models mess up. The goal is to build a drop in SDK for robotics,drones,and tactical ground vehicles (dual use/defense) that forces the machine to stop before hitting anything, even if the primary AI panics or loses GPS The problem in physical AI right now is massive: navigation models fail, sensors blind

Hi ROS Community, Benji from Roboto here. At ROSCon in October last year , we previewed an early experiment: could an AI agent investigate robotics data and help find the cause of a failure? As it turns out, the answer was yes. After extensive testing with several robotics teams, last month we released Roboto Agents . Describe what you need in plain language, and Agents can now work across bags, video, and source code to help with tasks like: Triage : an Agent automatically reviews every new bag

NOTE: Our next meeting will be in 2 weeks. Our regularly scheduled meeting tomorrow has to be postponed as I won’t be available to chair the meeting. Date/Time Monday, August 31st, 2026 @ 3pm UTC, (5pm CEST / 11am EDT / 8am PDT) Google Meet Video call link: Google Meet meeting Dial-in numbers: https://meet.google.com/tel/fom-qmmu-nnw?pin=8216926365973 To chat about meta-ros before then, come find us on the Open Robotics Zulip Channel: #OpenEmbedded - Open Source Robotics Foundation - Zulip Catch

ROS News for the week of August 10th, 2026 Just ten days remain to purchase regular price tickets for ROSCon Global in Toronto. If you need corporate approval to travel to ROSCon it is now or never! Next week is Foxglove’s Actuate conference in San Francisco. There are also various meetups and events affiliated with Actuate that are happening that week as well. The following week we have a Trossen X ROS Industry Night in San Francisco, our online Gazebo Community Meeting on reinforcement learnin

Background I am evaluating Open-RMF for a dense industrial production environment similar to a semiconductor fabrication facility. The environment contains: Many AMRs operating simultaneously Long and narrow bidirectional corridors Bottleneck sections that can accommodate only one or two robots Limited passing and pull-aside space Robots dynamically entering the traffic system Frequent route overlap, negotiation, stop-and-go behavior, and deadlock risk In this type of environment, minimizing the

Hi everyone, I’ve been building Metriplane , an open-source tool for turning recorded robotics and manufacturing state into an inspectable incident and a repeatable regression test. I just finished a new short demo that shows the use case much more clearly: A pallet is ready at an outfeed station. An AGV is expected to arrive within 60 seconds. It does not. The PLC knows the pallet is ready. The robot or ROS 2 side knows where the AGV is. Metriplane evaluates that process condition across the re

Organization: OSRF Contributor: Innocent Pious ( GitHub , LinkedIn ) Mentors: Scott Logan ( GitHub ) and Kimberly McGuire ( GitHub ) GSoC project: Add Support for Mixin Composition in Colcon-Mixin Repository: colcon-mixin Pull requests: #70 - mixin composition , #71 - merge-order fix Hey folks I’m Innocent Pious, a final-year CS student from Chennai, India. I’ve always enjoyed tinkering with developer tooling, and this summer I got to work on colcon-mixin with OSRF, with Scott Logan and Kimberly