Open Robotics

🎉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. ⬇️⬇️

Are you working on open source software / hardware humanoids or humanoid hands? We might organize a panel for IEEE Humanoids 2026 and we would love to chat. What would the LeRobot / TurtleBot of humanoids look like?

うごいた！！！！ mROS 2とうさい！！ #mROS2 #ros2 #stm

Fast and simple pick and place example using @OpenRoboticsOrg ROS and default MoveIt. Check out our repo to play with that. #openrobotics #ROS #MoveIt #OpenSource

@fishermen21 As in, you are more than welcome to post your work there as most ROS users are also DDS users.

@OpenRoboticsOrg I would appreciate it!

Ever wondered how a full spec compliant rust implementation of a boring DDS system with bridges to modern systems and even really old ones like CORBA would look like? zerodds.org #RustLang #DDS #ROS2 #Robotics #SystemsEngineering #Defense #Aerospace #CORBA

NextBestPath: Efficient 3D Mapping of Unseen Environments A method for generating the next-best-path for efficient active mapping, along with a new benchmark tailored for complex indoor environments. NextBestPath (NBP) is a novel method for next-best-path planning in 3D scene exploration. Unlike previous methods, NBP is designed to directly maximize mapping efficiency and coverage along the camera trajectory. This repository contains: - A simulator based on PyTorch3D and Trimesh - Functions for generating ground truth point clouds from meshes and evaluating reconstructed point clouds - Scripts for testing and training NBP models on AiMDoom dataset.

Ever spent hours tuning #ROS2 QoS only to have your robot execute a "ghost command" because of a Wi-Fi spike? 👻🤖 Wireless jitter (5G/Wi-Fi) causes "Control Semantic Collapse": Introducing: ros2_kinematic_guard. 🧵 (1/3) discourse.openrobotics.org/t/stop-ghost-c…

We’re thrilled to share the first episode of our reComputer #Jetson Beginner’s series, created in collaboration with @iuliaferoli and @NVIDIARobotics ! 🎉 Future episodes will include deep dives into the Jetson ecosystem, unboxing, computer vision with #YOLO, #ROS2 pipelines, #VLMs, and simulation with #IsaacSim. Stay tuned for a hands-on, step-by-step journey into physical AI! 👉GitHub:github.com/Seeed-Projects… 👉Course Vedio:youtube.com/watch?v=x35bs2… 👉reComputer Super J401:seeedstudio.com/reComputer-Sup…

You can now connect your @NVIDIAHealth #Holoscan graphs to @foxglove and have magical observably straight out of the box! Freebie: MCAP output. Come get it now on Holohub. Here’s how we use it to track robotic laparoscopy: nvidia-holoscan.github.io/holohub/applic… #ros2

More fun with @RealSenseai and @AgenticROS (running @openclaw and @claudeai AI agents) controlling a #ROS robot! #PhysicalAI

Introducing rbot, an open-source AMR simulation stack for ROS 2 Jazzy, Gazebo Harmonic, and Isaac sim. Repo: github.com/rlxai/rbot Demo: youtu.be/B-d64c-2Mw0 We welcome your valuable feedback and contributions. @OpenRoboticsOrg @ROSIndustrial

The ROS 2 Lyrical Luth Test and Tutorial party is still ongoing and we've got great news! 🐋 Lyrical Luth Docker images just dropped! It is now easier than ever to help us test the next ROS 2 release and earn some awesome ROS swag. Full details at: discourse.openrobotics.org/t/lyrical-luth…

Working Python code for SLAM, path planning, and localization github.com/AtsushiSakai/P…

Details and registration are here: roscon.ros.org/2026/

🎉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. ⬇️⬇️

A new sample program for MPC Path Tracking simulation was added into AutonomousVehicleControlBeginnersGuide!! Special thanks to Mohit Kumar for the amazing contribution! 🚀 github.com/ShisatoYano/Au… #Python #Robotics #AutonomousDriving

I abandoned LIO-SAM for now and gave KISS-ICP a shot. For lidar only odometry on very uneven and crappy terrain, it held up way better than I expected while being much less compute hungry. (Video below is the first ever Nav2 goal command. Completely untuned and it oversteered) Also got an ODrive Pro, the S1 was just not sufficient for this robot. This has to be the most beautiful motor drive I ever owned. For years I thought configuring these drives was a complete nightmare, but once you get over the learning curve and understand how they behave, you realize you never want to go back to dumb ESCs. #ros #openrobotics #odrive

Getting the Unity stuff working was quite annoying, but worth it. Next up: video streaming back to the headset. Thinking of using WebRTC, or is there a better way? #lekiwi #ROS #Unity

🎸A @ROBOTIS hand with tactile feedback 🎸ROS 2 in a nutshell, a survey of ROS publications 🎸CUDA-based K-means runs 2X faster 🎸A tactile sensing le Robot hand 🎸Learning PCL the easy way 🎸How to roll your own ROS 2 ToF sensor. 🎸A whole lot more! discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for…

🎸MARPY, a $50 ROS 2 robot built with an ESP32 🎸New @ousterlidar color LIDAR drops. 🎸Colin Angle's new companion robots 🎸Robot Web Tools final gets a NodeJS update! 🎸View Gaussian splats in RViz 🎸DIY Stepper Motor testing rig 🎸Debugging WebRTC latency ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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! ⬇️⬇️⬇️