# FOSDEM 2025: Robotics & Simulation... first edition!

**URL:** <https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/fosdem-2025-robotics-simulation-first-edition/40349>\
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**Created:** [October 30, 2024, 7:39pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/fosdem-2025-robotics-simulation-first-edition/40349 "2024-10-30T19:39:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![KimMcG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/kimmcg/32/23853_2.png) [@KimMcG](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/KimMcG)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 7:39pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/fosdem-2025-robotics-simulation-first-edition/40349/1 "2024-10-30T19:39:36Z")

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We’re excited to announce the first Robotics and Simulation devroom at FOSDEM 2025, scheduled for Sunday, February 2nd in Brussels!

> **[FOSDEM 2025 - Accepted developer rooms](https://fosdem.org/2025/news/2024-10-28-devrooms-announced/)**

A _Robotics and Simulation developer room_ at FOSDEM, focused on core robotics libraries, frameworks, simulation tools, and open-source platforms. The selected talks will cover key tools like ROS and Gazebo, showcasing advancements and projects in the field. The half-day event will feature four presentations and a lightning talk session, offering a platform for developers to share work and foster collaboration.

**Scope of Talks**

Because of the varied and interdisciplinary nature of robotics as a field, plenty of topics could fit a ‘Robotics and Simulation’ devroom. To help the speakers target their presentations to a specific audience, and to minimize the overlap with other established FOSDEM devrooms, we defined the scope of this devroom by listing key areas of interest:

- Core robotics libraries and applications. Mapping, planning, localization, perception, and control solutions would fit this category. For example, [Cartographer](https://github.com/cartographer-project/cartographer), [OMPL](https://ompl.kavrakilab.org/), [grid\_map](https://github.com/ANYbotics/grid_map), [Octomap](https://octomap.github.io/), [PCL](https://pointclouds.org/), [OpEn](https://alphaville.github.io/optimization-engine/), [OpenRMF](https://www.open-rmf.org/)
- Frameworks used when building robotics applications, being robotic specific tools, or generic tools used for robotics applications. Examples include [ROS](https://ros.org/), [Dora-RS](https://dora-rs.ai/), [OpenRR](https://github.com/openrr/openrr), [YARP](https://www.yarp.it/latest/), [Zenoh](https://zenoh.io/), and [Eclipse iceoryx](https://iceoryx.io/) _Of course this is the ROS discourse but FOSDEM invites all types of robotic frameworks so please see this as an opportunity to learn from each other._
- Specific robotic simulation software like [Gazebo](https://gazebosim.org/home), [Coppelia](https://manual.coppeliarobotics.com/), or simulations using non robotic specific tools, like [Bevy](https://bevyengine.org/), [Godot](https://godotengine.org/).
- Robotic-specific devops and related tooling, like [webviz](https://webviz.io/), [MCAP](https://mcap.dev/)
- Robotics platforms friendly for open source development, like [Andino](https://github.com/Ekumen-OS/andino), [Crazyflie](https://www.bitcraze.io/products/crazyflie-2-1-plus/), [Turtlebot](https://www.turtlebot.com/).
- Robotic products implemented using open source software. This can include examples of AI methods used to teach robots to perform certain tasks, or controlling robots using LLMs. For example, [dora-rs](https://dora-rs.ai/), [ros2ai](https://github.com/fujitatomoya/ros2ai), [robo-gym](https://github.com/jr-robotics/robo-gym)

The examples mentioned are meant to be descriptive and not restricted. Talks could be improvements to any of the mentioned packages, interesting uses of them, alternatives with different degrees of maturity, or totally unrelated to them.

**Submission instructions**

Talks proposal submission:

- Deadline: 1st December 2024
- Accepted talks notification: 6th December 2024
- Format (indicate that in the proposal notes)
  - 20 mins + 5 mins for Q&A
  - 5 min lightning talks

- Use this link: [FOSDEM 2025 :: pretalx](https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025/cfp) and please choose “Robotics and Simulation” as the “Track” when submitting your talk.

> **[FOSDEM 2025](https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025/cfp)**
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> Schedule, talks and talk submissions for FOSDEM 2025

See you in Brussels!

**Committee**

- Arnaud Taffanel (Bitcraze)
- Fred Gurr (Eclipse Foundation)
- Lucas Chiesa (Ekumen) @tulku
- Kimberly McGuire (Bitcraze) @KimMcG
- Mat Sadowski (Weekly Robotics) @msadowski

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**Author:** ![KimMcG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/kimmcg/32/23853_2.png) [@KimMcG](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/KimMcG)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 7:55am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/fosdem-2025-robotics-simulation-first-edition/40349/3 "2024-10-31T07:55:38Z")

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Yes! It will. We can’t accept remote talks I’m afraid since the FOSDem organization does not have support for it, but each of the FOSDEM’s developer rooms are live streamed: [FOSDEM 2025 - Live Streaming](https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/streaming/)

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**Author:** ![vmb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/vmb/32/21607_2.png) [@vmb](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/vmb)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 5:33pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/fosdem-2025-robotics-simulation-first-edition/40349/4 "2024-10-31T17:33:32Z")

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This is fantastic. Thanks to the team for proposing this devroom and congrats on getting it accepted!

I plan to be at FOSDEM, and volunteer to take a shift helping in the room if needed (as long as it doesn’t overlap much with the Legal/Policy devroom).

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**Author:** ![KimMcG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/kimmcg/32/23853_2.png) [@KimMcG](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/KimMcG)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2024, 5:41am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/fosdem-2025-robotics-simulation-first-edition/40349/5 "2024-11-01T05:41:39Z")

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Thanks! And it seems to be that the Legal&Policy room is on Saturday so that will work out perfectly.

The Robotics Devroom got a half day, namely the afternoon (still to be confirmed determined on schedule), which I get since it is only the first edition. So currently with the amount of people we have we should be fine for now, but thanks for offering! If we have drop-outs we will keep you in mind, but luckily the FOSdem organization usually has quite a lot of things covered in terms of scheduling, timing and recording so there is less of a workload on us except for just making sure that the speakers are in time.

I hope that you’ll consider to submit a talk as well 😄

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**Author:** ![vanmalleghema](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/vanmalleghema/32/22742_2.png) [@vanmalleghema](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/vanmalleghema)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2024, 9:08am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/fosdem-2025-robotics-simulation-first-edition/40349/6 "2024-11-01T09:08:15Z")

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Thank you very much for the initiative ! Will be there and submit a talk !

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**Author:** ![tulku](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/tulku/32/470_2.png) [@tulku](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/tulku)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2024, 1:02pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/fosdem-2025-robotics-simulation-first-edition/40349/7 "2024-11-01T13:02:28Z")

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I’m looking forward to seeing many of you there! Thanks for sharing @KimMcG

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**Author:** ![karun](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/karun/32/23480_2.png) [@karun](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/karun)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2024, 12:25am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/fosdem-2025-robotics-simulation-first-edition/40349/8 "2024-11-20T00:25:02Z")

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Hey, I was wondering if I could give a talk on some work I did with Hardware-in-the-loop for autonomous drone navigation. The work is built up on ROS, Gazebo and open source hardware.

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**Author:** ![KimMcG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/kimmcg/32/23853_2.png) [@KimMcG](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/KimMcG)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2024, 7:56am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/fosdem-2025-robotics-simulation-first-edition/40349/9 "2024-11-20T07:56:04Z")

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#dronesarerobotstoo

so yes absolutely, go for it. As long as the software is opensource. The hardware doesn’t necessarily need to be but it will be a big plus

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**Author:** ![tulku](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/tulku/32/470_2.png) [@tulku](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/tulku)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2024, 9:25am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/fosdem-2025-robotics-simulation-first-edition/40349/10 "2024-11-27T09:25:44Z")

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Hi! Just wanted to remind people that the deadline for talks proposals for FOSDEM 2025 is December 1st!

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**Author:** ![KimMcG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/kimmcg/32/23853_2.png) [@KimMcG](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/KimMcG)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2024, 5:52pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/fosdem-2025-robotics-simulation-first-edition/40349/11 "2024-12-01T17:52:41Z")

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The deadline is 1th of December, 23:59 UTC. Which means that there are 5 more hours left! ⏰ ⏰

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**Author:** ![karun](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/karun/32/23480_2.png) [@karun](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/karun)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 2:02pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/fosdem-2025-robotics-simulation-first-edition/40349/12 "2025-01-17T14:02:59Z")

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@KimMcG Hey, my proposal for presentation did not get selected, and I was hoping if there is still some slot for 5 mins presentation, I would love to present my work. I saw all the presenters and I look forward to being there regardless. Thank you.

My work is on HITL-Framework-for-Companion-Computers  
Github: [GitHub - Karun-lab/HITL-Framework-for-Companion-Computers](https://github.com/Karun-lab/HITL-Framework-for-Companion-Computers)

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**Author:** ![KimMcG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/kimmcg/32/23853_2.png) [@KimMcG](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/KimMcG)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 2:09pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/fosdem-2025-robotics-simulation-first-edition/40349/13 "2025-01-17T14:09:46Z")

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Hi! Sorry but the schedule is completely full and all speakers confirmed. We had way more proposals submitted then we expected, so we were sad we couldn’t fit everyone.

You are welcome to try again next year!