Our mission is to support development, distribution, and adoption of open source software like #ROS and #Gazebo for use in the robotics industry. Formerly OSRF.
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On the second day of ROSCon Global 2026, the open source robotics world woke to the news that Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. has announced its intent to acquire PickNik Inc. Open Robotics welcomes this news.
osralliance.org/2026/09/open…
ALT The Qualcomm and PickNik logos on a dark blue background.
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Post-ROSCon hackathon has kicked off!
The goal for today is that everyone walks away having made their first open source contribution
We've already had to scale ROS build farm capacity to keep up.
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We here at Open Robotics applaud open source distributions of #ROS. Each new release reinforces the stability, reliability, and production readiness of the Open Robotics Suite.
osralliance.org/2026/09/isaa…
ALT A line drawing of a wheeled-robotic turtle with booster rockets. Underneath it are the NVIDIA and ROS logos.
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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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Big news from our Infrastructure team at #ROSCon global: Cargo support is coming to the ROS build farm! 🦀
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The ROS Graph working group just announced NoDL, Node Definition Language, at #ROSCon Global.
NoDL is a set of tools to define the interfaces of your ROS node and help you write cleaner code with less boiler plate code.
github.com/ros-tooling/nodl
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The free livestream for day three of #ROSCon Global 2026 is now available on the ROSCon website thanks to the generous support of @amd.
Tune in here:
📺 roscon.ros.org/2026/#livestr…
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Our last #ROSCon Global lightning talk is from @watonomous, the autonomous driving team at @WaterlooENG.
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Our colleagues from @hellorobotinc are at the #ROSCon Global recharge lounge showing off their new and improved Stretch 4 robot.
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Our colleagues from @NVIDIARobotics are now live at #ROSCon discussing our new accelerated memory transport buffers in ROS Lyrical.
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We're live streaming from ROSCon Global 2026 in Toronto!
Big thanks to AMD for sponsoring the live stream.
Watch the keynote and opening remarks here:
vimeo.com/event/6211060/7b6e…
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@PickNikRobotics Dave Coleman, "If you've contributed to ROS your code is certainly in space."
That's the power of open source.
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Breaking at ROSCon Global: our friends at @PickNikRobotics have been acquired by @Qualcomm.
Congratulations all around.
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To kick off #ROSCon Global 2026 we have Chief Margaret Sault of Mississaugas of the Credit First Nations!
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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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This morning we attended the Canadian Robotics Council Symposium, organized by our board member Ryan Gariepy. There's some very impressive stuff happening with #robotics in Canada, including constructing entire neighborhoods.
roboticscouncil.swoogo.com/s…
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🍁@dimensionalos free hardware grant program
🍁@IndyAChallenge makes racing history
🍁@NSF funding for Physical AI
🍁Roboracer schedule for IROS 2026
🍁New tools for Physical AI in ROS Control
🍁A new Gazebo event camera plugin
🍁 Wuji and @ETH make robot hands walk
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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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OSRA member @InOrbitAI has released Open Robot Ops (ORO), an open source robot fleet manager that serves as a reference design for the new ISO 21423 standard!
ORO has real-time telemetry, diagnostics, mapping, teleoperation, incident management and a whole lot more. ⬇️⬇️
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🐌Physical AI models update at 20-50Hz.
🏇Hardware control systems run at 100-1000Hz+.
How can you make them play well together?
Thanks to our GSoC student Vedhas & @BuiltForRobots we just released three new tools that help integrate PAI models with control systems.
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🪄Name the next Gazebo release
🪄New ROS PMC members announced
🪄RoboCurve grants for robotics benchmarks
🪄New agent skills for ROS developers
🪄Gazebo Gymnasium brings RL to Gz
🪄ROS 2 Shadow: side-by-side planner viz
🪄Simulate an event camera in Gazebo
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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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🍁Improved RL workflows for Gazebo
🍁UI/UX tweaks drop for Open-RMF
🍁ROS meetups in Malmo and Stockholm
🍁Silly Robot Contest @fdotinc
🍁@ReframeSystems raises $40M
🍁@GravisRobotics raises $200M
🍁@Arduino comes to @ZephyrIoT
🍁 Name the Gazebo M Release
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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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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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🎈3D printed mini-quadruped from Japan
🎈ROS By-the-Bay at @BoschGlobal
🎈@Arduino Ventuno Q drops
🎈COMPASS: @NVIDIA's RL framework for ROS 2
🎈@intrinsic talks 3D object perception w/OpenCV
🎈Learn Reinforcement Learning with Gazebo
🎈New ROS 2 / LeRobot Bridge
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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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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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🚨Just 12 hours remain to pick regular price tickets for ROSCon Global in Toronto!🚨
💸After 11:59pm PST tonight tickets increase by $300!
Don't miss your chance to attend the largest gathering of open source robotics professionals in the world!
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We're at @reservoirfarms today for their Ruggedize conference.
Watching the @SamiRobotics robot at work is mesmerizing.
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Thanks to @SeeTorontoNow we're extending our regular price ROSCon Global registration window!
Save $300 US on ROSCon registration when you sign up before 2028-08-27 11:59pm PST.
We look forward to seeing you and ~1000 other #ROS users in Toronto this September 22nd-24th!
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We've extended regular price ROSCon Global registration until this Thursday, August 27th at 11:59pm PST thanks to the support of our colleagues at @SeeTorontoNow!
💰Secure your tickets before the deadline to save $300 US / $416 CAD!
🇨🇦Looking forward to seeing you in Toronto!
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Join us tomorrow, Tuesday August 25th, at the @trossenrobotics residency in San Francisco's Mission District for a Trossen X #ROS industry night!
Trossen will be showing off their new Physical AI product lines and we'll be talking about our Special Interest Group on Physical AI.
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🦾Reinforcement learning in @GazeboSim tutorial
🦾Weaponized Plastic Fighting League in Austin
🦾Multiple big announcements at @foxglove Actuate
🦾New automatic ABI checking for ROS 2 repos
🦾Drones chase drones with sound
🦾ROS Central Registry: ROS packages for Bazel
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Here is your #ROS and open source robotics news for this week:
🦾Regular ROSCon Global tickets end Monday
🦾ROS Hackathon and Waterloo robotics tour
🦾 OSRA releases ROS X LeRobot demo
🦾@trossenrobotics X ROS Industry Night
🦾ROS for agriculture at @reservoirfarms
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We're about to announce a long list of after-hours ROSCon Global events including an OSRF hackathon, a tour of the Waterloo area robotics ecosystem, and multiple after parties and receptions.
Details will be sent to registered ROSCon attendees next week!
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The OSRA, working 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.
Learn more about our road map and how you can get involved!
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We've got an amazing list of speakers lined up for our next ROS By-the-Bay on Thursday, Aug 13th at the @InOrbitAI Robot Space in Mountain View.
Topics covered include a new reference implementation for Open-RMF, a ROS / Bazel central registry, and home-brew Johnny 5 replica.
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Planning to join us this September in Toronto for ROSCon Global?
Just three weeks remain to purchase regular priced tickets. The last day to purchase regular priced tickets is Monday, August 24th.
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🏖️Improvements to ROS 2 executors
🏖️Spray painting robot digital twin with Gazebo
🏖️@AgencyToolCo OTA updates as a service
🏖️OpenDerm screens for skin cancer
🏖️@ShawnHymel on RL using MuJoCo
🏖️OctoSense a new multi-modal autonomy data set
🏖️Pixi gets a new offline mode
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We've got some amazing #ROS and open source robotics news for this week including an open source hexapod, a new benchmark for Nav2 hardware, a fast foundation stereo pipeline, the best robots at @OpenSauceLive, and a whole lot more!
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