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…

Want to contribute to open source for yoursummer internship? Consider applying to our Google Summer of Code program for 2026!

Here is your #ROS and open source robotics news for the week of March 9th, 2026: ☀️ROSCon Global 2026 Call for Proposals is out! ☀️GIANT ROS By-The-Bay meetup for NVIDIA GTC ☀️GSoC program drops Monday ☀️A full LeRobot SO-101 stack w/ ROS 2 ☀️Tactile sensor for @LeRobotHF ⬇️⬇️

Here is your #ROS and open source robotics news for this week: 🛠️ROSCon Toronto Art + Diversity Scholarhsip 🛠️ROS By-The-Bay @nvidia GTC Edition 🛠️ROSCon Belgium is go! 🛠️Intrinsic AI Challenge Kickoff and Toolkit 🛠️Gazebo system plugin tutorials ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Part 2 is up 🎉 @GazeboSim System Plugins for Beginners Part - 2: Making an LED Plugin jasmeetsingh.io/blogs/beginner… In this part, I cover how to actually make a plugin by taking my latest plugin as a reference that allows you to simulate LEDs in Gazebo: github.com/jasmeet0915/gz…

New Blog Update 🎉: @GazeboSim System Plugins for Beginners Part - 1: Introductions jasmeetsingh.io/blogs/beginner… After building numerous custom robotics simulations, this is my attempt at distilling my learnings into a 2-part series on extending @GazeboSim with system plugins. Do give this a read. Feedback is always welcome!

Our colleagues at @NVIDIARobotics have released Isaac ROS 4.2 which adds: 🤖NVIDIA DGX Spark hardware support 🤖JetPack 7.1 and Jetson T4000 support 🤖Improved visual mapping localization workflows 🤖FoundationStereo v. 2 🤖A new sim-to-real tutorial w/ a @Universal_Robot ⬇️⬇️

We just scheduled a special edition of our ROS By-the-Bay meetup for after @nvidia GTC at the @circuitlaunch co-working space. Our guest speakers will be senior leadership at @ousterlidar & we'll also have a physical AI showcase featuring the winners of a recent hackaton. ⬇️⬇️

Applications are open for anyone interested in attending. The deadline not far away, and remember, March is a month of marching forward! 😄 Just saying that maybe because it's my birthday month, and the application is due exactly on my birthday! Do apply quickly #ros2 #robotics

@Escoeerg @rosorg @ArduPilotTeam @GazeboSim if people want a resource use this REPO github.com/aimarket/aweso…

You can simulate anything with @GazeboSim if you know how to make System Plugins. This was our submission for the NASA SpaceROS Summer Sprint Challenge 2024 where we simulated: - Dynamically configurable Dust Storms using Particle Emitters & a custom GUI Plugin - Time of Day using a custom plugin that changed illumination and scene color - Real Martian Terrain using elevation data from HiRISE Imager on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - Lens Flare artifacts for real time camera views using the LensFlare System Plugin github.com/space-ros/demo…

The artwork for ROSCon Global 2026 just dropped! 🇨🇦We're excited to work with our Canadian colleagues to host Global ROSCon in beautiful Toronto this September! We're also kicking off our ROSCon Diversity Scholarship program! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Here is your #ROS and open source robotics news for the week of February 3rd, 2026: 🦞@IntrinsicAI joins @Google 🦞A new ROS interface for OpenClaw 🦞New MuJoCo / ROS Control bridge 🦞Changes to the Gazebo release cadence 🦞ROS Lyric release working group ⬇️⬇️⬇️

I work with some amazing people. Made with ROS2 @rosorg + Ardupilot @ArduPilotTeam + Gazebo @GazeboSim + Rviz + MavROS. Hardware-In-the-loop.

Join us next Wednesday, February 26th, at 2pm PST for our monthly virtual Gazebo Community Meeting. Our guest speaker will be Sai Aravind, who will discuss how he generates realistic Gazebo terrains using satellite imagery and digital elevation map data.

Here is your #ROS and open source robotics news for the week of February 16th, 2026: 📈New 2025 ROS Metrics Report 📈1B ROS packages downloaded a year 📈1.3M monthly ROS users 📈ROSCon France in Paris Announced 📈ROS By-The-Bay Meetup with @PX4Autopilot and @PolymathRobots ⬇️

Are you in the Bay Area and interested in drones or autonomous heavy equipment? Join us for our next ROS By-The-Bay meetup next Thursday. Our guest speakers will be @mrpollo from @PX4Autopilot / @Dronecode and Zeerek Ahmad, a Sr. controls engineer at @PolymathRobots.

Gazebo is growing quick! There are over 10M Gazebo packages downloaded every month!

Who said @GazeboSim is just a robotics simulator?

Here is your #ROS and open source robotics news for this week: 💘Global ROSCon 2026 website is live 💘@NVIDIA Isaac ROS 4.1 released 💘@PicknikRobotics and Motive are sending ROS to space 💘New Metaquest streaming hand tracker for ROS 2 💘New ROS Diagnostic tools for 2026 ⬇️⬇️

Today's issue of Weekly Robotics: an URDF editor, Atlas airborne, and lots of business news! 🤖 🤖 🤖 weeklyrobotics.com/weekly-robotic… #robotics #ros