Gazebo Simulator

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/gazebo-jetty…

Here is your #ROS and open source robotics news for this week: 🏎️Last day for discount ROSCon tix is 7/12 🏎️Autonomous RC cars at ROS By-the-Bay 🏎️Satellite data to @GazeboSim models 🏎️Plot Juggler 4.0 drops 🏎️@DRoboticsDev joins the OSRA 🏎️OSRF gets a new CPO 🏎️More! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

We are pleased to announce Vicky (VM) Brasseur is taking on an expanded role at Open Robotics as our new Chief Program Officer. After 2 years advising the OSRA, her open source expertise will help advance our vision. We're super excited to have her join the team! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

✈️Looking to travel to ROSCon Global in Toronto on a budget? 🎉Have we got a deal for you! ⏰For just one more week, until Sunday, July 12th, early bird ROSCon tickets are $150 off! 💡 This discounted rate makes our amazing ROSCon workshops effectively free!

subtle flex :) My project now listed in Official @GazeboSim Documentation by @OpenRoboticsOrg : gazebosim.org/docs/jetty/pro… #OpenSource #Robotics

Here's your #ROS and open source robotics news for the week of June 22nd: 🏓@Sony's ROS 2 ping pong robot beats champions 🏓ROSCon France in Paris 🏓A sold out ROS meetup at @AutomateShow 🏓 3 weeks remain for early bird ROSCon tickets 🏓 Gazebo plugin for paint application ⬇️

Here is your #ROS and open source robotics news for the week of June 8th, 2026: 🚀ROS Meetup @AutomateShow 🚀ROSCon Global 2026 talk schedule released 🚀New ROSCon Italy this November in Bologna 🚀@opencvlive 5 drops: better, faster, more AI 🚀@NASA Space Robotics Challenge ⬇️⬇️

LED Plugin has been merged upstream in @GazeboSim!🎉 This plugin makes it possible to simulate configurable LED systems in Gazebo. Do give it a try.

The @GazeboSim team is happy to announce a new rolling release code-named Gazebo Rotary. Gazebo Rotary is built nightly from the bleeding edge of our repos and it is intended to be used a tool for core developers. ⚠️Rotary is not intended for production applications. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Here is your #ROS and open source robotics news for this week: ☀️#ROS & @Dronecode Meetups at ICRA ☀️@IntrinsicAI Challenge narrows to 31 competitors ☀️@PolymathRobots on making ROS executors fast ☀️@SeeedStudio certified open hardware arm ☀️RCLNodeJS version 2.0 drops ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Here is your #ROS News for the week of May 18th, 2026: 🎵 ROS 2 Lyrical Luth has been released! 🎵 ROS Meetup at ICRA 2026 in Vienna 🎵 A new bi-manual mobile manipulator 🎵 ROS on a Steam Deck 🎵 New CUDA ROS 2 IK / FK Lib 🎵 Tons of ROS events! ⬇️⬇️

Our latest #ROS distro, ROS 2 Lyrical Luth, has been released! 🎉 Lyrical is a long term support ROS release with tier 1 support for Windows 11 and Ubuntu 26.04 until May 2031. This release has a ton of great features that make it worth the upgrade! 📈 Details below ⬇️⬇️⬇️

🎉Registration for ROSCon Global 2026 in Toronto is now open! We're offering ten workshops this year and we have an amazing collection of sponsors who will be joining us in our expo hall! Register between now and July 12th to take advantage of discounted rates. ⬇️⬇️

Here is your #ROS and FOSS robotics news for the week of May 4th: 🎸Urgent: ROS Lyrical Needs more beta testers 🎸ROSCon Tickets, sponsors, & workshops Mon 🎸ROSCon Turkey and Spain are go! 🎸Sensor Stream: iPhone sensor suite 🎸ros_camera_streamer: streaming is a snap! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

🫵Hey You!🫵 Want to become a bona fide open source contributor to #ROS? Good news! We still need lots of help with our Test and Tutorial Party for ROS 2 Lyrical Luth! Install our beta, run a few tests, and we'll add you to the release notes and perhaps send you swag! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

In case you missed it, here is a recording of our monthly @GazeboSim community meeting. Our guest speaker was @debounSingh who provided a overview on how to build a simple Gazebo plugin that acts as an LED light source. vimeo.com/1187781358?sha…

Here is your #ROS and open source robotics news for the week of April 27th, 2026: 🎸ROS 2 Lyrical Luth beta released 🎸Help us test Lyrical, get free swag! 🎸ROS Lyrical swag now available 🎸Gaussian Splats come to ROS 2 & RViz 🎸GPS-Denied nav with ROS & @PX4Autopilot ⬇️⬇️

Want to learn how to build custom robot simulations? Join us tomorrow, Wednesday, April 29th, for our monthly @GazeboSim community meeting where @debounSingh will explain how to build a simple Gazebo LED plugin. It should be a great introduction to Gazebo development! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Want to add "open source contributor" to your resume? All active participants in our Lyrical Luth beta testing will have their named added to our release notes. If you want to pitch in join us tomorrow at 9am for our kickoff meeting where will show you the ropes of FOSS dev. ⬇️

See ya'll tomorrow (Wednesday, April 29th, 9 am PT / 9:30 PM IST) for the @GazeboSim Community Meeting!🚀 I'll be walking you through the process of building your own plugins for Gazebo and how you can use them to simulate LEDs for your robots! The PR for the LED plugin is up and might soon be merged upstream 🎉: lnkd.in/gpuQag7w Meanwhile, you can give it a go from this repo: lnkd.in/gAGcm_S9 I'll also be sharing some cool sneak peeks of another one of my upcoming projects: Artemis Mission Simulator 🌝: lnkd.in/g_ftUiDC

Pixi is gaining traction fast in robotics, so we built a dedicated landing page to help roboticists get up and running quickly. pixi.prefix.dev/latest/robotic… #ROS #robotics