Hi Everyone,
It is my pleasure to present you with the illustration for ROS 2 Lyrical Luth! This release illustration is the work of our illustrator Ryan Hungerford. Ryan is an illustrator based in the Bay Area and his AI (actual intelligence) makes for some wonderful illustrations.
Lyrical Swag Sale
We’re also happy to announce that the ROS 2 Lyrical Luth swag sale is now live. We’re now using Fourth Wall for all of our ROS swag sales as the platform supports both a wide array of items and allows us to produce merch on demand and ship it almost anywhere on earth We’ve also created a permanent URL for ROS swag at store.openrobotics.org so it is easy to find. For this release we are offering eight different items for sale including:
Mens, womens, and kids shirts (we’re big fans of the tri-blend shirts)
Baby Onsies
Hoodies and long sleeve shirts
Throw pillows
Mugs
Decorative prints
All profits from the Lyrical swag sale go directly to the Open Source Robotics Foundation and help support the ROS, Gazebo, ROS Control, and Open-RMF projects. If you order today you might just receive your swag by release day on May 22rd, 2026. If you would like to earn Lyrical swag by contributing to the project please consider contributing to the Lyrical Test and Tutorial party that is currently taking place. The top twenty test contributors will be sent a code to our swag store.