# ROS News for the Week August 3rd, 2026

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# ROS News for the Week August 3rd, 2026
  

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Congratulations to our Japanese colleagues on another successful [ROSConJP](https://roscon.ros.org/jp/2026/). The [photos](https://x.com/rosconjp/status/2084916718842093691) and [videos](https://x.com/Dream_Drive/status/2084959630304928054) coming out of the event look amazing.

  

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We’ve got a ton of great events coming up. Next Thursday we’ve schedule a [ROS By-The-Bay meetup at InOrbit in Mountain View.](https://www.meetup.com/ros-by-the-bay/events/315912236/?slug=ros-by-the-bay&eventId=315912236) [Foxglove’s Actuate conference](https://actuate.foxglove.dev/?utm_campaign=40976810-Actuate&utm_content=374017076&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin&hss_channel=lcp-72660627) is the following week followed by a workshop for the [Scenic project at UC Santa Cruz.](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/scenic-workshop-august-20-21-uc-santa-cruz/57198) I’ve also organized a ROS Industry Night at [Trossen Robotics showroom in San Francisco’s Mission District](https://luma.com/98tk63hk)

  

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It seems like space robotics was a hot topic this week. ROSConJP attendees got a tour of JAXA, the Japanese Space Agency. Meanwhile, a few of us former Open Robotics folks were part of a site visit to the Intelligent Robotics Group at NASA Ames (the test bed rover on the right runs ROS 2 Jazzy). Our colleagues at [Picknik had a webinar with Rocket Lab](https://picknik.ai/webinars/Rocket_Lab.html). The [NASA Fly Foundation Robotics Mission](https://www.nasa.gov/mission/fly-foundational-robots/#begin) is still taking applications and we’re hearing rumors a bigger space robotics competition in the works for 2027.

  

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Check out [OpenMantaClaus, an open source low-cost ROS 2-based AUV.](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/openmantaclaus-open-source-low-cost-ros2-based-auv-for-sauvc/57143)

  

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One of the more interesting things coming out of ROSCon Japan this week is [Robot System Quest](https://github.com/mertcookimg/robot-system-quest) which is a series of games and lessons for learning ROS 2.

# Events

- [2026-08-11 August ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting EU](https://www.linkedin.com/events/ros-industrialdevelopersmeeting7490351805185466368/)
- [2026-08-13 ROS By-The-Bay @ InOrbit](https://www.meetup.com/ros-by-the-bay/events/315912236/?slug=ros-by-the-bay&eventId=315912236)
- [2026-08-18 → 2026-08-19 Foxglove Actuate 26](https://actuate.foxglove.dev/?utm_campaign=40976810-Actuate&utm_content=374017076&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin&hss_channel=lcp-72660627)
- [2026-08-20 =\> 2026-08-21 Scenic Workshop August 20-21 @ UC Santa Cruz](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/scenic-workshop-august-20-21-uc-santa-cruz/57198)
- [2026-08-25 Trossen X ROS Industry Night](https://luma.com/98tk63hk)
- [2026-08-26 → 2026-08-27 Ruggedize Agricultural Technology & Robotics Conference](https://ruggedize.ai/)
- [2026-09-04 Open Ocean Software Community Day UK](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/announcement-open-ocean-software-community-day-uk-4-september-2026/56020)
- [2026-09-06 Roboracer VTC 2026](https://vtc2026-race.roboracer.ai/)
- [2026-09-17 ROS Meetup Barcelona 8th Edition](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-meetup-barcelona-8th-edition/56814)
- [2026-11-05 International Conference on Humanoid Robotics, Innovation & Leadership](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/international-conference-on-humanoid-robotics-innovation-leadership/53922)

# ROSCons

- [2026-09-22 =\> 2026-09-24 Global ROSCon 2026 in Toronto](https://roscon.ros.org/2026/) - Three weeks remain for regular tickets.
- [2026-10-21 =\> 2026-10-23 ROSCon UK in Edinburg](https://roscon.org.uk/2026/) - registration now open
- [2026-10-23 =\> 2026-10-26 ROScon Singapore](https://roscon.ros.org/sg/2026/) - applications open
- [2026-10-27 =\> 2026-10-28 ROSCon Spain in Valencia](https://roscon.org.es/roscon2026/ROSConES2026.html) - reg open!
- [2026-11-03 ROSCon Italy in Bologna](https://roscon.ros.org/it/2026/)
- [2026-11-25 =\> 2026-11-26 ROSCon Belgium in Nivelles](https://roscon.ros.org/be/2026/) - reg is open!
- [2026-12-03 =\> 2026-12-04 ROScon Turkey in Istanbul](https://roscon.ros.org/tr/2026/) - CFP opens soon

# News

- [Last day to purchase regular price ROSCon Global tickets is Monday, August 24th](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/last-day-to-purchase-regular-price-roscon-global-tickets-is-monday-august-24th/57162)
- [This Week at Open Robotics Headquarters (2026-07-27)](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/this-week-at-open-robotics-headquarters-2026-07-27/57158)
- [Call for Competitions - 2026 IEEE-RAS 25th International Conference on Humanoid Robots](https://2026.ieee-humanoids.org/call-for-competitions/)
- [Dexory CEO Andrei Danescu, “The Market Does Not Want More Robots” (Video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYSQN09G-PE)
- [FCC Covered List Bans New Foreign Mobile Robots in US](https://spectrum.ieee.org/fcc-covered-list-mobile-robots?itm_source=homepage&itm_medium=hero&itm_campaign=hero-2026-08-06&itm_content=hero2)
- [Laser Power Hack Could Keep Drones Aloft Longer](https://spectrum.ieee.org/drones-wireless-charging-lasers-flight)
- [Why Walden’s Humanoid Robots Run on Wheels, Not Hype](https://spectrum.ieee.org/humanoid-robots-walden-robotics-toyota)
- [Avnet and Weston Robot partner to launch edge AI inspection platform](https://www.therobotreport.com/avnet-and-weston-robot-partner-to-launch-edge-ai-inspection-platform/)
- [Humanoids won’t scale on factory floors until costs drop](https://www.therobotreport.com/humanoids-wont-scale-on-factory-floors-until-costs-drop/)
- [HEBI Robotics earns NASA SBIR grant to fast track miniaturized actuators](https://www.therobotreport.com/hebi-robotics-earns-nasa-sbir-grant-fast-track-miniaturized-actuators/)
- [Google DeepMind says Gemini Robotics 2 enables full body control](https://www.therobotreport.com/google-deepmind-says-gemini-robotics-2-enables-full-body-control/)

# ROS

- 🆒 [OpenMantaClaus - Open source low-cost ROS 2-based AUV for SAUVC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/openmantaclaus-open-source-low-cost-ros2-based-auv-for-sauvc/57143)
- 🆒 [ros2top – Top but for ROS](https://github.com/AhmedARadwan/ros2top)
- 🆒 [MIGHTY: Hermite spline-based real-time trajectory planner for single- and multi-agent UAVs and ground robots](https://github.com/mit-acl/mighty) – [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10822) – [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvb-VPUdLvg)
- 🆒 [Sarcastic Rubik’s Cube Solving Robot](https://www.pjrc.com/rubiks-cube-solving-robot/)
- 🆒 [Robot System Quest: Games and Lessons : Learn ROS 2 Concepts Through Play](https://github.com/mertcookimg/robot-system-quest)
- 🆒 [ros2 sonify A CLI tool that converts ROS 2 topics into sound in real-time, enabling monitoring and anomaly detection](https://github.com/OTL/ros2-sonify)
- 🆒 [Announcing protoros2: use protobuf in ros2 without compromise](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/announcing-protoros2-use-protobuf-in-ros2-without-compromise/57152)
- [ROS 2 Client Library Performance Monitoring: Midterm Progress Update](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/gsoc-2026-ros-2-client-library-performance-monitoring-midterm-progress-update/57204)
- [Uv on ROS 2: a field report on workspace-level virtual environments](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/uv-on-ros-2-a-field-report-on-workspace-level-virtual-environments-five-failure-modes-and-minimal-colcon-ament-proposals/57111)
- [Physical AI Open-source Platform: CYCLO](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/physical-ai-open-source-platform-cyclo/57201)
- [Nav2 zigzag navigation in a large road environment with Isaac Sim](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/nav2-zigzag-navigation-in-a-large-road-environment-with-isaac-sim-rviz-localization-gradually-diverges-from-the-simulator/57184)
- [Rosbag Resurrector — a pandas-like analysis + ML-export workbench for ROS 2 bags](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/rosbag-resurrector-a-pandas-like-analysis-ml-export-workbench-for-ros-2-bags/57209)
- [Curobo\_ros v2 – GPU-accelerated motion planning wrapper, now on cuRobo v0.8.0](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/curobo-ros-v2-gpu-accelerated-motion-planning-wrapper-now-on-curobo-v0-8-0/57147)
- [Rclnodejs 2.1: Native ESM for a Web-Native ROS 2 SDK](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/rclnodejs-2-1-native-esm-for-a-web-native-ros-2-sdk/55679)
- [What should go in the tag?](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/what-should-go-in-the-license-tag/56952)
- [ROS 2 Realtime Support Package](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-2-realtime-support-package/57113)
- [Letting Python Be Python: Should ROS 2 be less strict with the Python ecosystem?](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/letting-python-be-python-should-ros-2-be-less-strict-with-the-python-ecosystem-notably-pip-conda-venv/52385)
- [Proposal: `rcl_executors` - a unified, canonical reference executor package for all client libraries](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/proposal-rcl-executors-a-unified-canonical-reference-executor-package-for-all-client-libraries/57057)
- [VectorField Planner: 7 µs global path queries with strict optimality](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/vectorfield-planner-7-s-global-path-queries-with-strict-optimality-rest-api-for-occupancy-grids-nav2-plugin-on-roadmap/57094)
- [A compositional approach to verifying modular robotic systems](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921889026003209?via%3Dihub)
- [MASLAB 2025 – MIT ROS Lectures](https://maslab.mit.edu/2025/lectures)
- [Lenna-Stereo-Camera: Camera module for Imx219-83 · GitHub](https://github.com/Lenna-Robotics-Research-Lab/Lenna-Stereo-Camera)
- [Building a Robot in ROS 2 From Scratch, Part 5: building an actual map of the space](https://medium.com/@affan905/building-a-robot-in-ros-2-from-scratch-part-5-building-an-actual-map-of-the-space-9d42aaaf5970)
- [“A Tale of Two Cultures: Can Agentic Coding Close the Gap?” plenary by Ken Goldberg at ICRA 2026 (Video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HWIUTcGFQ4)
- [GaP: A Graph-as-Policy Multi-Agent Self-Learning Harness For Variational Automation Tasks](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.05369)
- [FreeCAD MCP (Model Context Protocol) server](https://github.com/neka-nat/freecad-mcp)
- [Reinforcement Learning for Robotics Part 2: Train a Balance Bot with PPO (Video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsdceSTRBl4)
- [robomaster\_ros: ROS 2 for DJI Robomaster EP and S1](https://github.com/tatsuyai713/robomaster_ros)
- [A Godot 4 client for ROS TCP Endpoint](https://github.com/comoc/gd_ros_tcp_connector)
- [dskkato/ros2\_cuda\_ipc: ROS 2/CUDA IPC support](https://github.com/dskkato/ros2_cuda_ipc)
- [Automatically Generate CallbackIsolatedExecutor config skeletons](https://github.com/MrBearing/cie-inspector)
- [toio\_ros2 is ROS 2 package for using toio.](https://github.com/atinfinity/toio_ros2)
- [mROS-base](https://github.com/mROS-base)
- [Roboplan Release 0.6.0](https://github.com/open-planning/roboplan/releases/tag/0.6.0)
- [OpenCat-Quadruped-Robot: An open source quadruped robot pet framework](https://github.com/PetoiCamp/OpenCat-Quadruped-Robot)

# Got a Minute? ⏰

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