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Gazebo Jetty is here! Jetty is our latest long term support release of the Gazebo simulator. Jetty comes with a suite of developer-focused features that make simulating your robot fast, easy, and flexible. Check out the the release notes here: discourse.openrobotics.org/t…
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ROSCon Global 2026 in Toronto is a wrap! We want to thank our attendees, speakers, sponsors, and staff for such a great event! We look forward to seeing you at ROSCon Global 2027 in Kraków, Poland!
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The ROSCon Global 2026 free live stream from Toronto, Ontario is now live! Big thanks to @AMD for sponsoring the live stream!
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Here is your #ROS and open source robotics news for this week: 🍁ROSCon Global next week in Toronto 🍁Full list of ROSCon events 🍁Free ROSCon live stream details 🍁New indoor drone navigation simulation stack 🍁@InOrbitAI releases Open Robot Ops 🍁Hyderabad Robot Demo Day ⬇️
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Now we're ready for ROSCon Global!
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Here is your #ROS and open source robotics news for this week: 🪄ROSCon Exhibits 🪄Open Source Safety Consortium launches 🪄Chaos monkey fault injection for robotics 🪄Matching Physical AI & hw control loops 🪄Tiny robot performs magic tricks 🪄ROS Meetups: Malmo & Barcelona ⬇️⬇️
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Upcoming exercise in our robot programming website unibotics.org, sausage packaging 🚀 Sausages come one by one from a conveyor belt, an industrial robot has to pick them and group them together in a second conveyor belt in order to be packaged. piped.video/watch?v=582AF_l4…
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Today in Weekly Robotics: 🤖 A modular skid-steer UGV you can build yourself, 🤖 a winning SLAM implementation, 🤖 balancing a pole with propellers, 🤖 GPT-6 for robotic manipulation, ... and more! weeklyrobotics.com/weekly-ro… #robotics #ros #opensource
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Here is your #ROS and open source robotics news for this week: 🍁Source code for a human tracking drone 🍁REP-158: simulation asset portability spec 🍁ROSCon after parties & hackathon 🍁ROS By-the-Bay @BoschGlobal 🍁Bimo: an open biped robot for RL policy dev ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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OOMWOO Open-Source vacuum - dock in simulation Added dock to room simulation. Next up - docking, dock finding, undocking.
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🎉Congrats to our GSoC student Yimo for completing their Gazebo summer project! Mentored by @ArjoC , Yimo audited Gazebo's core plugin reset paths, built new test tooling, and fixed critical state leaks to ensure reliable simulation resets. RL workflows should run smooth now!⬇️
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Let a thousand open source bipeds bloom!
🚀 v1.1.0 is live on GitHub, including a new CPG model, ROS2, distillation pipeline and more. Full development update video coming soon on YouTube. #robotics #opensource #ROS2 #ai
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Big news! Gazebo & ROS code names are syncing up for easier compatibility and we need your help to pick the next name. The next Gazebo code name is jumping to "M" to match ROS 2 Makoa Mata-Mata The list of names is below submit your vote on Open Robotics Discourse. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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In case you missed it, here is the recording of our monthly @GazeboSim community meeting. This month our colleagues from @UBC joined us to talk about their framework reinforcement learning using Gazebo. piped.video/QyAa4R23_9E?si=rSaC…
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New industrial robotics exercise at our open source RoboticsAcademy, the palletizing challenge🤖Boxes of several sizes are coming from a conveyor belt and an UR10 robotic arm has to pick and place them at a pallet: piped.video/yOOyq5eReyc Developed at GSoC-2026 from @GoogleOSS
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We just hit 1000 users on our Open Robotics @zulip server. Zulip is our open source alternative to Discord. We migrated late last year and the experience has been nothing short of fantastic; no bots, no spam, and threaded conversations! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Here is your #ROS and open source robotics news for this week: 🎈Str1ker: an open source mech for Burning Man 🎈NAV2 drops for Lyrical 🎈ROS2SmolVLA: a ROS 2 VLA for industrial cobots 🎈New FOSS visual servoing controllers 🎈How to: auto docking for a @hellorobotinc ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Clearpath Robotics and Rockwell Automation teams will be leading some workshops and tech talks at #ROSCon2026 — sharing practical insights drawn from real-world deployments and open-source development. 🤖 🎤 @OpenRoboticsOrg 👉 Learn more and register: rok.auto/4xZo6yj
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