Hey fellow aerial roboticists!
We’re on summer holiday for the month of July 2026 with a really exciting session of the ROS Aerial Robotics community working group meeting lined up for August 2026!
Date/Time: 2026-08-26T17:00:00Z→2026-08-26T18:00:00Z
Meeting link: Google Meet meeting
(As announced on the ROS community calendar)
Alongside an update of the aerial robotics landscape and events, we will have a presentation by Sanket Sharma who is a dev-team member at ArduPilot!
Title: “Multimodal Agentic Control Stack for MAVLink Vehicles” 
mav-agent is an agentic control stack for MAVLink vehicles, where an AI agent perceives and reasons over vision, LiDAR, sensors and vehicle state to plan and execute commands, including movement, visual follow/servoing, obstacle avoidance and missions with spatio-temporal understanding, via any MCP-compatible client.
The talk covers the architecture (MAVLink backend, LangGraph, Qwen-VL perception, sensor data representation for agents, MCP tool interface etc) and the roadmap toward multi-agent swarm coordination and spatio-temporal semantic map, with demos of natural-language and external-agent control.
See you in August! This will surely be a fun one 