Ramon Roche 🚀

And remember kids, loyalty and respect can't be bought.

Linux in space? 🚀At the #ELISAproject WG & SIG Updates 2026, Ramon Roche (@mrpollo) shared progress on Space Grade Linux, advancing Linux for space and high-reliability systems. hubs.la/Q047vMFb0 #functionalsafety #linux #space

As an application of the invariant EKF in GTSAM, we added a state estimator for legged robots, along with some more factor-graph-heavy variants. Try it on your rosbags - especially interested in validating it with non-quadrupeds (bipeds, hexapods, spiders). It takes IMU and feet in body frame as inputs.

We're bringing @claudeai to Mexico this week and I'm losing my mind. Built by Claude community, for the community. Monterrey → 5 killer speakers. Session with Anthropic. SOLD OUT. Mexico City → Build Day. You walk in, pick a track, and ship an AI agent before you leave. Mentors available. SOLD OUT. The largest Claude community in Latin America didn't ask for permission. We just built it. 🇲🇽🔥 luma.com/claudemonterrey luma.com/claudemexicoci… #ClaudeSinFronteras #ClaudeCode #ClaudeAI #ClaudeCommunity #AILatam #Mexico #Monterrey #CDMX

"You're right, this needs to be a framework, not a one-off. Let me assemble a team of experts to debate this properly."

GTSAM now has a small hierarchy of Kalman filters for states that live on manifolds and Lie groups: ManifoldEKF -> LieGroupEKF -> InvariantEKF -> LeftLinearEKF The key idea is simple: keep the state on the manifold, but do uncertainty propagation in the tangent space. For navigation and IMU integration, this matters a lot.

@kscottz Can't agree more

The frequency with which young software engineers will stumble into another field (robotics, EE, ML, CV, urban planning, etc), shit on everything that came before, and claim intellectual supremacy, is astounding. Learn some humility little bros.

.@DeltaQuadUAV outlines technical discussions with the open source flight control community and engagement at FOSDEM, focusing on real-world VTOL autonomy, system limits, and operational performance Read more: hubs.la/Q044Bp_D0 #unmanned #autonomy #drone

ARKV6X-RT Flight Controller. Compatible with all @pixhawk Autopilot Bus Carriers. Will run @PX4Autopilot out of the box. @NXP IMXRT1176 CPU @TDK_Corporation ICM-45686 and IIM-20670 @ST_World LSM6DSV80X and IIS2MDC @BoschGlobal BMP390

Almost two decades after founding @PX4Autopilot, #mavlink, #qgroundcontrol and creating the first generation of Pixhawk, I am very proud that the company I founded is consistently at the top of annual contributors to @Dronecode . Two decades of consistency!

Find @mrpollo in the selfie!

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 ⬇️

🚀The 2025 #ROS Metrics Report is out! It was all good news for our open source community in 2025! 📈~1 Billion ROS packages downloaded, up 85% 📈1.3M unique download IPs in Oct, up 58% 📈ROS 2 is now 91.2% of downloads 📈1579 companies using ROS 📈16480 academic citations ⬇️⬇️

@IDV_FPV Cool project, good luck!

I have been flying FPV drones and tinkering with iNav on wings for the past 6 years. Always wanted to get into autonomous drones but never took the time. This feels like a nice opportunity so I am collaborating with Swarm to build a Langostino of my own. Will be integrating my upcoming open source flight controller and ESC that I have been posting about lately to make the project even more open! Cannot wait to get the parts and start building. Will share the journey

We have a responsibility to build to defend the freedoms we enjoy. I created MAVLink in 2007. It will stay the civil protocol it is today. But it is time to add a message set for military applications that builds on top of it. Introducing MAVLink-M: github.com/LorenzMeier/ma…

Bay Area friends I’ll be in the area next week, see you at the meetup!

@facontidavide Looks like this could be great for QGroundControl

First tagged release (0.1.0) of Widgeteer. Widgeteer is like an MPC for your Qt application! An AI Agent can use it to interact with the GUI or to easily build integration tests. Give it a try github.com/AurynRobotics/…

On Claude Code, we’re introducing agent teams. Spin up multiple agents that coordinate autonomously and work in parallel—best for tasks that can be split up and tackled independently. Agent teams are in research preview: code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-…

8 years of building an autonomous robotics company in ~60 seconds. Cursing, crashes, breakthroughs -- and a lot of robots in the supply chain. Here’s why we chose this as our life’s work. (1/5)

🚀🇲🇽México celebra un nuevo logro espacial El exitoso lanzamiento del satélite Gxiba-1, desarrollado por la @UPAEP en colaboración con @JAXA_jp , es motivo de orgullo nacional. Este hito refleja el talento, la creatividad y la capacidad de estudiantes e investigadores.

The ARKV6S will be a low cost version of the ARKV6X. The S stands for single IMU. Same STM32H7 as the ARKV6X and ARK FPV. @TDK_Corporation IIM-42653 IMU, @ST_World IIS2MDC magnetometer, and @BoschGlobal BMP390 barometer. Same @pixhawk Autopilot Bus form factor SOM.