ROS News for the Week of February 23rd, 2026
Our colleagues at Intrinsic have joined Google to accelerate the future of physical AI. More information about what this means are on Discourse, the Robot Report, and in Techcrunch.
We had a great ROS By-The-Bay Meetup last night in Mountain View. Next week we’re holding three kick off sessions for the Intrinsic AI for Industry Challenge. Later in the week there is Bots, Bevs, and Devs at the Foxglove office in San Francisco and a ROS Meetup in Barcelona
The ROS Control team has been absolutely killing it lately! This week they released mujoco_ros2_control package to bring high-fidelity MuJoCo simulation to ROS Control users.
Despite numerous safety and security concerns there’s been a lot of interest in OpenClaw, the personal assistant that uses multiple LLM-based agents to automate common tasks. This week a developer calling themselves Irvin released ROSClaw, a package to integrate ROS 2 with OpenClaw.
Use this at your own risk, and remember that robots can be dangerous!
Our colleagues at Autoware and Tier 4 just released Agnocast & Callback Isolated Executor—bringing true zero-copy IPC and middleware-transparent scheduling to ROS 2. These performance-critical features are now live in the latest version of Autoware. If you’re pushing the limits of ROS 2 performance, give it a look!
Events
- 2026-02-28 ROSCon HR 2026 Abstracts Due
- SF Bay Area Robotics Events in March and April
- 2026-03-03 Kick Off Sessions for Intrinsic AI for Industry Challenge
- 2026-03-08 Call for Papers: RoSE’26 (Robotics Software Engineering) @ ICRA Vienna
- 2026-03-10 => 2026-03-12 ROS-I Consortium Americas Training Event
- 2026-03-11 Bots, Bevs, and Devs in SF @ Foxglove
- 2026-03-12 7th ROS Meetup Barcelona
- 2026-03-18 Interoperability Framework: Working Group Formation
- 2026-03-20 ROS Meetup Moscow 2026. Remote participation is possible
- 2026-03-23 ROS Heilbronn Meetup at Bildungscampus
- 2026-03-30 ROSCon Croatia
- 2026-04-14 ROS Meetup Malmö Sweden
- 2026-04-17 Intrinsic AI for Industry Challenge Deadline – More details
- 2026-05-03 Robotics Meetup Bremen
- 2026-05-04 => 2026-05-08 SPACERAISE Space Robotics Summer School
- 2026-05-17 ROBORACER @ ICRA 2026
- 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
- 2026-06-21 => 2026-06-26 RPL Summer school in robotics, perception and learning, Stockholm, Sweden.
- 2026-06-22 => 2026-06-25 ROSCon France in Paris
- 2026-07-02 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
- 2026-08-05 => 2026-08-06 ROSCon JP 2026
- 2026-09-22 => 2026-09-24 Global ROSCon 2026 in Toronto
News
- Intrinsic joins Google to accelerate the future of physical AI- Discourse - Robot Report - Techcrunch
- Proposal for a new Gazebo Release Cadence
- Gazebo PMC Meeting Minutes 2026-02-23
- ROS Lyrical Release Working Group
- 2026 Maritime Community Working Group Monthly Meetings
- Meeting Summary for Accelerated Transport Working Group 02/18/2026
- Meeting Summary for Accelerated Transport Working Group 02/11/2026
- ROS PMC Minutes for February 24, 2026
- Do we want bots talking here?
- Weekly Robotics #349
- Wayve raises $1.2B with plans to bring robotaxis to London
- Aramine AutoNav makes mining safer at Reward Gold Mine
- The hidden infrastructure challenge facing outdoor robotics OEMs
- Employees at Google and OpenAI support Anthropic’s Pentagon stand in open letter
ROS
Agnocast & Callback Isolated Executor: True Zero-Copy IPC and Middleware-Transparent Scheduling for ROS 2- Introducing mujoco_ros2_control: High-fidelity simulation for ROS 2
- ROSClaw: ROS 2 meets OpenClaw
- From Unit Tests to CI: A Practical Guide for Professional ROS 2 Projects
- Ground Segmentation Library with ROS 2 Integration
- Web URDF viewer
- Traversability_generator3d: 3D Traversability from MLS Maps (JOSS 2026)
- New Packages for ROS 2 Rolling Ridley 2026-02-25
- Cosmos-Reason2-2B on Jetson Orin Nano Super
- SO-ARM-Moce: An Improved Open-Source Educational Robotic Arm
- ROS 2 Lyrical C++ Version
- Predictability of zero-copy message transport
- ROS 2 CANOpen shortcomings and improvements
- Keep list of branches short in repos
- Transitive Core Concepts — #1: Full-stack Packages: robot + cloud + web
- Interoperability Special Interest Group, 5 February 2026
- Ajime a robotics CI/CD next-gen platform
- LGDXRobot2: Build a ROS 2 Robot with Decent Performance
- Forward and Inverse Kinematics for Fanuc CRX series cobots.
- A TF2-like transform library for roslibrust
- ROS 2 control hardware interface for the MuJoCo physics simulator
- An ncurses based terminal GUI for viewing and filtering published ROS log messages.
- Deploy Depth Anything V3 on Jetson AGX Orin
- Curses-based TUI dashboard for real-time ROS 2 robot diagnostics
- End‑to‑End Telemetry for Robotics
- Inverse Kinematics Demystified: Making Robots Move in Any Direction (Video)
- Packaging AI/ML models as conda packages
- Real Time Object Detection Meets DINOv3
- How to build your own CNC machine from scratch
Jobs
Got a Minute? 
We could really use your help with the following issues:
- Help Wanted in ros2/launch_ros Feature: Combined Parameter Substitution
- Help Wanted in ros2/ros2_documentation
New Page: ROS 2 Mirror Guide - Help Wanted in ros2/ros2cli ros2 pkg create: Add --message and --service
- Help Wanted in ros2/ros2cli More ROS1-like tab-completion for ros2topic / ros2service
- Help Wanted in ros2/ros2cli Argument completion for ros2service