ROS News for the Week of February 2nd, 2026
Big news, ROSCon Croatia is go! The event is scheduled for late March. Reach out to @destogl for more information. Our friends at InOrbit have an event tonight in Mountain view and our SG ROS Meetup will happen on the 10th. Towards the end of the month we have a very special joint PX4 / ROS By-The-Bay Meetup sheduled.
URDF Kitchen is a GUI-based tool that allows you to load mesh files for robot parts, mark connection points, and assemble robots by connecting nodes. It is especially useful when your CAD or 3D modeling tools cannot directly export URDF files, or when existing URDFs need to be modified.
Roboto_origin Fully Open-Source DIY Humanoid Robot
There is an amazing team in China building a fully open-source DIY humanoid robot called Robot Origin and it runs ROS 2!
@ali.pahlevani just released RUBI, or ROS Utility Board Interface which is a slick little app for monitoring your topics. If you like that check out his appearance on the OpenCV weekly webinar where he discusses simultaneous localization & mapping
Events
- 2026-02-06 Network with Robotics @ InOrbit Robot Space in Mountain View
- 2026-02-10 SG ROS Meetup: 2026 kickoff of ROS Meetup Singapore
- 2026-02-11 Intrinsic AI for Industry Challenge Deadline
- 2026-02-12 Mass Robotics Form Function Challenge Application Deadline
- 2026-02-17 REK Robot Boxing in San Francisco
- 2026-02-26 PX4/ROS By-The-Bay February Meetup
- 2026-03-23 ROS Heilbronn Meetup at Bildungscampus
- 2026-05-04 => 2026-05-08 SPACERAISE Space Robotics Summer School
- 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.
- 2026-07-02 Robot Fringe Festival 2026
- 2026-07-29 => 2026-08-04 IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems in Prague
News
- InOrbit adds Steve Cousins to board, to offer OpenRobOps as open-source fleet manager
- InOrbit OpenRobOps + ROS Ecosystem
- BotBot Robotics Joins the OSRA
- Seegrid Lift RS1 AMR Wins Material Handling’s Products of the Year Readers’ Choice Award 2025
- How Industrial Robot Safety Was Written In Blood
- Call for Student Representatives - IEEE RAS
- Robotics is forcing a fundamental rethink of AI compute
- Videos: Autonomous Warehouse Robots, Drone Delivery
- Apeiron Labs gets $9.5M to flood the oceans with autonomous underwater robots
- Machina Labs raises $124M to launch large-scale intelligent U.S. factory
- Bills introduced to strengthen U.S. robotics competitiveness, humanoid security
- Bedrock Robotics’ $270M Series B paves the way for operator-less excavators
- LimX Dynamics picks up $200M for humanoid robot expansion
- Overland AI raises $100M to scale autonomy with the U.S. armed forces
- Waymo keeps foot on the autonomous vehicle pedal with $16B funding
- Turning Davos into a Robot City this July
- ROS 2 Rust Meeting: February 2026
- Confirmation of minutes of the 22 January 2026 meeting
- Discussion on ISO draft on mobile robot interoperability
- 2026 Maritime Community Working Group Monthly Meetings
- Industry Insights: Dexory’s Andrei Danescu Discusses Warehouse Data | Association for Advancing Automation
- IROS 2026 Pittsburgh Info
ROS
URDF Kitchen Beta 2 Released- Roboto_origin Fully Open-Source DIY Humanoid Robot
Accelerated Memory Transport Working Group Announcement- Cycloid Drives Explained (Video)
- gz-macOS: A fully reproducible, source-built Gazebo Sim stack for macOS (Apple Silicon / Harmonic and Ionic)
- Getting started with Pixi and RoboStack
- RUBI: ROS Utility Board Interface
- Pi 5 Powerhouse: Building the Ultimate ROS 2 Composite Bot
- ROS 2 Evolved: Unleashing the AI Super Brain
- Is there / could there be a standard robot package structure?
- Creating an Agentic Skill Library for Robotics, Computer Vision, and Physical AI
- Simulating a ROS 2 Biomimetic AUV: Gazebo, Dave, or Stonefish?
- Proposal to a Nordic User Group
- Depth Anything 3 ROS 2 Wrapper with Real-time TensorRT for Jetson
- Lessons learned migrating directly to ROS 2 Kilted Kaiju with Pixi
- Gazebo terrain generator
- Update on ROS native buffers
- LinkForge v1.2.1 is now live on Blender Extensions!
- Stop rewriting legacy URDFs by hand
- ROS 2 Joint Velocity to Position Controller
- Differential Drive robot with ros2 Jazzy.
- Stable Distance Sensing for ROS-Based Platforms in Low-Visibility Environments
- Developing an autonomous weeding robot for orchards using ROS2 Jazzy
- Optimization of Piper Robotic Arm Motion Control via lerobot Transplantation
- Space ROS Jazzy 2026.01.0 Release
- robotic_world_model: Repository for our papers
- URDF-Studio: URDF-Studio is a web-based visual URDF robot modeler
- Autonomous Vehicle Control Beginners Guide with Python sample code
- Internet Archive free book: Printed Circuit Handbook
- URDF importer
- Developing a maze solving robot in ROS 2
- Free Motion Capture for Everyone
- Eye-to-hand calibration from RGB / RGB-D images using robot mesh as calibration target
- A ROS 2 tutorial workspace using behavior trees and turtlesim
- Vehicle surround-view stack in ROS 2
- joint_velocity_to_position_controller: ROS 2 controller designed to receive joint velocity commands and convert them to joint positions.
- semantic_segmentation_layer: Nav2 costmap layer for semantic segmentation
- auto-apms: A versatile framework for developing robot behaviors using behavior trees in ROS 2.
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- Help Wanted in ros2/ros2cli cannot configure optional argument after fzf-based interactive selection
- Help Wanted in ros2/rosidl Add caching mechanism for rosidl code generation
- Help Wanted in ros2/ros2_documentation
New Page: ROS 2 Mirror Guide - Help Wanted in ros2/launch_ros LoadComposableNodes should have an option to fail/shutdown if a node fails to load
