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 the week of March 31st, 2026: 🌸ROS Meetups in Malmo and at Modex 🌸ROSCon Workshops due 4/5 🌸ROS By-The-Bay with @innate_bot and @Saphira_AI 🌸ROS 2 Lyrical Luth release process starts 🌸@robotis new 20 DOF robot hand ⬇️⬇️

Finally wrapped up development on the @GazeboSim LED Plugin with ROS 2 support and example. Checkout the GitHub repo: github.com/jasmeet0915/gz… Good news 🎉: This might soon be merged upstream in Gazebo. The PR is already up and approved: github.com/gazebosim/gz-s… This plugin allows you to: -> Define LEDs using visuals, lights, or both -> Describe different LED behaviors (idle, warning, emergency, etc.) by defining different with multiple sequences -> Change modes at runtime via a Gazebo topic (ROS 2 bridgable) Checkout the repo README for detailed instructions. Checkout my blog to know more about how the plugin actually works: jasmeetsingh.io/blogs/beginner…

You asked for better documentation, and we're happy to report that it is on the way! The OSRA has been working with 3DI to build a shared information architecture for our project documentation. We'll be rolling it out over the next few months and hope to finish by ROSCon! ⬇️⬇️

"Building From Source Shouldn't Be This Hard" That's our motto, read our latest blogpost to understand what we're building and how Pixi already helps you with today! 🗞️ Read it here: prefix.dev/blog/building-… #pacakgemanagement #pixi #ROS #condaforge

Here is your #ROS and open source robotics news for this week: 🌷ROSCon 2026 Call for Sponsors 🌷ROSCon workshops Due April 5th 🌷OSRF GSoC Applications due 3/31 🌷ROSCon Croatia in Zagreb kicks off 🌷Meets next week in Nigeria, PL, DK 🌷ESP-32 ROS 2 diff drive robot ⬇️⬇️⬇️

I think this is also a good time to mention that we added some lunar terrain models over at @GazeboSim Fuel as part of the @NASA Space ROS Summer Sprint Challenge. These were made using elevation data from LOLA Imager on board the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Plugin coming soon to create terrains directly using datasets from NASA PDS (Planetary Data System). app.gazebosim.org/jasmeetsingh/f…

With all these announcements by NASA regarding the lunar base, moonfall drones & lunar surface vehicles, I think this is the right time to fire up the @GazeboSim Garden demo world & setup SpaceROS

ICYMI: Here a recording of our monthly @GazeboSim community meeting. This month's speaker covered the basics of creating your own Gazebo Plugin from scratch to extend Gazebo's functionality. vimeo.com/1177012951?sha…

Here is your #ROS and robotics news for this week: ☀️ROSConUK and ROSCon Spain are go! ☀️ROS Meetups in Heilbronn and Nigeria next week ☀️ROS breakfast at MODEX ☀️OSRF Google Summer of Code program kicks off ☀️ROSCon Global 2026 CFP now open ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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! ⬇️⬇️⬇️