ROS News for the Week of April 13th, 2026
ROSCon Turkey is go and ROSCon JP just dropped a fantastic logo for 2026. This week we also announced our next Gazebo Community Meeting. Most importantly, the deadline for ROSCon talk submissions is just nine days away! All of our upcoming ROS and robotics events are listed in the events section below.
Our Physical AI Special Interest Group has been killing it lately. @dmitri_manajev just released an interactive inverse kinematics solver for ROS 2 and the SO-101 arm that uses Viser and robokin. What’s cool about the project is that it is light-weight enough to run on a constrained platform like the Raspberry pi!
Have a camera? Have an NVIDIA Jetson? Well, you now have a depth sensor! @jfrancis71 has released a new package to integrate NVIDIA Fast Foundation Stereo model into ROS 2.
Have the Lego Mindstorm Robot inventor kit #51515? Check out this ROS Jazzy driver for Lego Mindstorms. If you get everything up and running we would love to see what you build!
Do you use ROS at work? Why not tell the world! @tomoyafujita vibe coded a new page for docs.ros.org that we’re going to use to start listing active ROS projects. Adding your project is simple, just fill out a couple of YAML fields and send a PR to the ROS docs!
Events
- 2026-04-17 Intrinsic AI for Industry Challenge Deadline – More details
- 2026-04-21 Accelerating Robotics Development with Qt Robotics Framework
- 2026-04-26 Global ROSCon 2026 in Toronto Proposals Due
- 2026-04-29 => 2026-04-30 ROS Meetup Medellín Colombia
- 2026-04-29 Gazebo Community meeting: Simulating LEDs with Gazebo
- 2026-04-30 Aerial Robotics Meeting
- 2026-04-30 Physical AI Happy Hour: London
- 2026-05-03 Robotics Meetup Bremen
- 2026-05-04 => 2026-05-08 SPACERAISE Space Robotics Summer School
- 2026-05-04 Physical AI Happy Hour: Paris
- 2026-05-17 ROBORACER @ ICRA 2026
- 2026-05-21 Second ROS Meetup Karlsruhe
- 2026-05-22 Stanford Robotics Drone Hackathon
- 2026-05-23 => 2026-05-24 Open Hardware Summit 2026 in Berlin
- 2026-05-23 Open Hardware Summit at TU Berlin
- 2026-05-25 Toronto Robotics Community Event
- 2026-06-21 => 2026-06-26 RPL Summer school in robotics, perception and learning, Stockholm, Sweden.
- 2026-06-22 => 2026-06-25 ROSCon France in Paris
- 2026-06-22 => 2026-06-26 iRoboCity2030 Summer School 2026: ROS 2, AI and Field Robotics
- 2026-07-02 Robot Fringe Festival 2026
- 2026-07-17 Open Sauce Technology & Creator Festival – We’re putting together a booth with OpenCV and OSHWA, if you want to demo your ROS robot, reach out.
- 2026-07-29 => 2026-08-04 IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems in Prague
- 2026-08-03 => 2026-08-07 FZI Robotics Summer School 2026 - Apply
- 2026-08-04 => 2026-08-05 ROSCon JP 2026 スポンサーの紹介
- 2026-08-02 Montreal Robotics Summer School
- 2026-08-18 → 2026-08-19 Foxglove Actuate 26
- 2026-08-26 → 2026-08-27 Ruggedize Agricultural Technology & Robotics Conference
- 2026-09-22 => 2026-09-24 Global ROSCon 2026 in Toronto
- 2026-10-27 => 2026-10-28 ROSCon España Valencia
- 2026-11-05 International Conference on Humanoid Robotics, Innovation & Leadership
- 2026-11-25 => 2026-11-26 ROSCon Belgium 2026
News
OSRA announces technology strategy for 2026- Delaying Lyrical RMW and Feature Freezes
- ROSCon Global 2026 Talk Proposals Due April 26th
- Gazebo PMC Meeting Minutes 2026-04-13
- Gazebo PMC Meeting Minutes 2026-04-06
- Birds of a Feather Sessions at ROSCon Global 2026
- Call for Proposals: Global ROSCon 2026 in Toronto
- Videos: Digit Robot Learning, Swarm Robotics, and More
- Predicting the Next Bite
- Unibotics Robot Programming Challenge
- Weekly Robotics #356
- Boston Dynamics and Google DeepMind Unveil a Smarter Spot
- Chef Robotics escaped the robot cooking graveyard and says it’s thriving – here’s why
- Skild acquires Fetch Robotics assets from Zebra
- AGIBOT deploys semi-humanoid robots in electronics manufacturing
- Transitive Robotics announces Transitive 2.0 open-source robotics framework
- Locus Robotics launches Locus Array for fully autonomous fulfillment
ROS
- ROS jazzy driver for Lego Mindstroms Robot Inventor
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New “ROS Adopters” page is live - ADD YOUR PROJECT - Interactive SO-101 IK in ROS 2 with Viser + robokin
- Package to integrate NVIDIA Fast Foundation Stereo model into ROS 2
- New Packages for Jazzy Jalisco 2026-04-13
- Interactive GUI toolkit for robotics visualization - Python & C++, runs on desktop and web
- How to use fastdds_monitor on ROS 2 Humble
- QP Based Motion Controller
- Rocky’s Open-Source Build Thread (AI for Industry Challenge)
- Real-Time Face Tracking in ROS 2 & OpenCV
- Fast Lossless Image Compression: interested?
- Monkey Brain: a “low-code” finite state machine / decsision engine framework
- ROS 2 Adaptive Admittance Controller
- What’s new in Transitive 2.0: ClickHouse DB storage, Grafana visualizations, Alerting
- RobotCAD 10.5.0 adapted to FreeCAD 1.1 AppImage
- RFC: Hardening controller_manager against cyclic dependencies in chainable controllers
- QOI (Quite OK Image) format available as image_transport
- FusionCore demo: GPS outlier rejection in a ROS 2 filter built to replace robot_localization
- Ros2_medkit + VDA 5050: bridging SOVD diagnostics with fleet management
- Open Hardware Bi-manual Robot – docs
- Cost-Aware Kinematically Feasible Planning for Mobile and Surface Robotics
- autoware_vision_pilot: Free self-driving car stack - fully open-source ADAS and autonomous driving system
- MOLA-LIO + Loop Closure: Globally Consistent Map — MOLA v2.6.1 documentation
- MIGHTY: Hermite Spline-based Efficient Trajectory Planning – Source
- Cyclo Control on ROBOTIS AI worker
- NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1.7: Open Reasoning VLA Model for Humanoid Robots
- NVIDIA SIL An Open-Source Multi-Sensor Data Platform for Neural 3D Reconstruction and Physical AI
- ROS 2 OSX brew formula
- Python inverse kinematics based on MuJoCo
- The Physics Of GPS
- gnssplusplus-library: Modern C++ GNSS/RTK/PPP/CLAS toolkit.
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We should have announcement out for ROS 2 Lyrical Luth test and tutorial party on Monday! We’re going to need your help to make Lyrical the best ROS 2 LTS yet!