ROS News for the Week of April 20th, 2026
We need your help testing ROS 2 Lyrical Luth!
Join us next Thursday, April 30th, at 9am for our Lyrical Luth Test and Tutorial Party Kickoff. We’ll show you how to install and test the next ROS release and our top testers will get free ROS swag! You don’t have to make the kickoff meeting to participate in the T&T Party. We’ll post a video once we’re done.
About 48 hours remain to submit your ROSCon Global talk proposal!
Proposals are due Sunday, April 26th. If you want to share your work with the entire ROS community in Toronto this September it is now or never. Full CFP details are here.
Join us next Wednesday, April 29th, for our monthly Gazebo Community meeting, Our former GSoC student @jasmeet0915 will show you how to build a Gazebo LED plugin from scratch. @jasmeet0915 has also been working on an Artemis mission simulator for Gazebo that’s worth checking out.
With the release of ROS 2 Lyrical Luth less than a month away we’ve kicked off the process for naming the ROS 2 M release. All are welcome to submit a potential name for the next release.
ROS 2 Console Tools is a TUI that delivers all of your favorite ROS CLI functionality in a single, easy to use, user interface.
Axon is an an open source USB bridge for robot I/O It looks pretty slick.
Events
- 2026-04-25 Robots on Ice 2026
- 2026-04-26 Global ROSCon 2026 in Toronto Proposals Due
- 2026-04-27 ROS OE Community Meeting #54
- 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
- 2026-04-30 Lyrical Luth Test and Tutorial Party Kickoff
- 2026-05-03 Robotics Meetup Bremen
- 2026-05-04 => 2026-05-08 SPACERAISE Space Robotics Summer School
- 2026-05-04 OpenCV Conference OSCCA in LA
- 2026-05-04 Physical AI Happy Hour: Paris
- 2026-05-07 Physical AI Happy Hour: Munich
- 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
- 2026-05-06 => 2026-05-08 Week of Robotics Odense Denmark
- 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
ROS 2 M Name Brainstorming- Call for Proposals: Global ROSCon 2026 in Toronto
- Unibotics Robot Programming Challenge, April 2026
- ROSConUK 2026 opens Calls for Proposals
- Weekly Robotics #357
- Gazebo PMC Meeting Minutes 2026-04-20
- Add your Company to ROS 2 Adopters
- Videos: Ping Pong Robot, Juggling Robot, and More
- US Ban on Chinese Robots Could Reshape Supply Chains
- Robots beat human records at Beijing half-marathon
- Improving mobile robot stability on uneven terrain through vibration monitoring techniques
- Chef Robotics completes 100M meal servings milestone
- GM’s Mikell Taylor to lead Women in Robotics Breakfast at the Robotics Summit
- Pudu Robotics raises nearly $150M as it targets industrial applications
- Cruz’ing through the terminal: A&K Robotics lands $8M for autonomous mobility
- Crewline secures $7.1M to automate construction’s most repetitive task
- HII partners with Path Robotics, GrayMatter Robotics to accelerate shipbuilding
ROS
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ROS 2 Lyrical Luth Testing Kicks Off on April 30th - Axon: an open source USB bridge for robot I/O
- ROS 2 Console Tools
- newton_ros, ros2 bridge for the Newton simulator
- Community Group Proposal: Automated ROS Upgrade Assistant
- NVIDIA NCore: An Open-Source Multi-Sensor Data Platform for Neural 3D Reconstruction and Physical AI - source
- Ada Fruit: BNO055 IMU hardware abstraction software
- ROSDeck: configurable split-pane ROS 2 operator panel for Android
- Rocky’s Open-Source Build Thread (AI for Industry Challenge)
- Fast Lossless Image Compression: interested?
- Upcoming Lyrical Feature Freeze
- Introducing swift-ros2: a native Swift client library for ROS 2, now open source
- A proposal for a LidarScan sensor message
- QOI (Quite OK Image) format available as image_transport (lossless RGB(A) 50x faster than PNG)
- Colorful ROS 2 Command Line!
- Oxide GNSS — a Rust-based ROS 2 driver for u-blox ZED-F9P with NTRIP and integrity monitoring
- Vision Banana from Google DeepMind
- Thor: DIY 3D Printable Robotic Arm
- rosbag-resurrector: Pandas-like analysis for robotics bag files
- Roboto_origin Fully Open-Source DIY Humanoid Robot
- Geometry-aware 4D Video Generation for Robot Manipulation
- 3D-printable cubes/cuboids with ArUco or AprilTag fiducial markers
- mission_simulator: simulate NASA’s Artemis missions using ROS 2 and Gazebo!
- reBot Arm B601: A Fully Open-Source Robotic Arm Built for Physical AI
- ROS Hardware in the Loop System
- ROS 2 IMU demo
- Micro ROS package for MPU6050 IMU sensor
- Tutorial: Adding end-to-end custom navigation capabilities to Nav2
- Hand-Guided Teleoperation for SO-ARM100
- Collection of Materials on Low Cost/ Open Source Robots
- Analysis on FusionCore vs robot_localization
Got a minute?! 
We really need all hands on deck for the T&T party next Thursday! If you’ve never contributed to ROS the T&T party is a great place to start!