ROS News for the Week of January 19th, 2026
This week marked our first ever regional ROSCon in South Korea!
Our ROS social calendar has filled back up again. There is a Gazebo Community Meeting on Forest3D next Wednesday and ROS By-The-Bay with Main Street Autonomy and @skye.galaxy next Thursday. The following week there is a robotics Dev room at FOSDEM and a Dronecode Meetup in Leuven, Belgium. This week we also announced a ROS Singapore Meetup in February and a ROS Heilbronn Meetup at Bildungscampus in March. Tickets for Open Hardware Summit at TU Berlin also went on sale this week.
@skye.galaxy released a fantastic new ROS Benchmarking tool from iRobot this week! it is worth checking out!
In the good vibe codes only department, check out this slick ROS 2 YOLO package. It provides This package provides composable and lifecycle-managed ROS 2 nodes for real-time object detection, instance segmentation, pose estimation, oriented bounding boxes, and image classification.
Events
- 2026-01-28 The Canonical Observability Stack with Guillaume Beuzeboc
- 2026-01-28 Gazebo Community Meeting: Forest3D
- 2026-01-28 Urban Autonomy Summit in San Franisco
- 2026-01-29 ROS By-The-Bay with Main Street Autonomy
- 2026-01-30 Dronecode + Septentrio Meetup: Leuven, Belgium
- 2026-1-31 => 2026-02-01 FOSDEM - Robot Dev Room
- 2026-01-31 = > 2026-02-01 Physical AI Hackathon San Francisco – Details
- 2026-02-10 SG ROS Meetup: 2026 kickoff of ROS Meetup Singapore
- 2026-02-17 REK Robot Boxing in San Francisco
- 2026-02-12 Mass Robotics Form Function Challenge Application Deadline
- 2026-02-11 Intrinsic AI for Industry Challenge Deadline
- 2026-03-23 ROS Heilbronn Meetup at Bildungscampus
- 2026-05-22 Stanford Robotics Drone Hackathon
- 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.
- 2026-07-29 => 2026-08-04 IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems in Prague
News
- ROSCon Korea 2026
- ROS PMC Minutes for January 20, 2026
- ROS PMC Minutes for January 13th
- ROS PMC Minutes for January 6, 2026
Draft REP 0156:2026 ros2logCommand Line Interface - Call for Discussion- Why Serve Robotics is acquiring a hospital assistant robot company
- Oshen built the first ocean robot to collect data in a Category 5 hurricane
- iRobot emerges from Chapter 11 as restructured Picea U.S. subsidiary
- Zipline raises over $600M in funding, surpasses 2M commercial drone deliveries
- Boston Dynamics releases Spot and Orbit 5.1 with new Spot Cam
- Microsoft Research reveals Rho-alpha vision-language-action model for robots
- Serve Robotics to acquire hospital logistics provider Diligent Robotics
- Botsync brings in investment from SGInnovate to continue scaling robots, software
- Robot Videos: DARPA Triage Challenge, Extreme Cold Test
- MassRobotics opens applications for fourth Form and Function Robotics Challenge
- Weekly Robotics #344
- Software-Defined Everything from RTI
ROS
- Update on ROS native buffers
- iRobot’s ROS benchmarking suite now available!
- ROS 2 Robotics 2026: Jetson Nano or Raspberry Pi 5 Kit?
- Supporting newer versions of Ubuntu
- Gazebo Fuel Model Feedback
- New packages for Kilted Kaiju 2026-01-22
- New Packages for ROS 2 Rolling Ridley 2026-01-21
- Ros2_yolos_cpp High-Performance ROS 2 Wrappers for YOLOs-CPP
- Pixi as a co-official way of installing ROS on Linux
- beluga vs amcl the localization upgrade you didnt know you needed
- Deployment and Implementation of RDA_planner
- Gazebo Kura Roadmap
- Can anyone recommend a C++ GUI framework where I can embed or integrate a 3D engine?
Announcement: rclrs 0.7.0 Release- LinkForge: Robot modeling does not have to be complicated
- Autonomous Path Planning Using Deep Reinforcement Learning (ROS2 Foxy+ Gazebo Classic)
- ROS 2 in the Wild: Scaling Robotics from Lab to Production
- PRBonn/rko_lio: A Robust Approach for LiDAR-Inertial Odometry Without Sensor-Specific Modelling
- From Sea to Space: Advancing Perception in Harsh Domains @ ICRA 2026
- ros2_medkit: Modern, SOVD-compatible diagnostics for ROS 2 robots (runtime discovery, introspection, remote troubleshooting).
- ROS Bag Conversion Tool
- CoinFT: A Coin-Sized, Capacitive 6-axis Force/Torque Sensor for Robotic Applications
- Robot Simulation Software: A 2026 Perspective
- Tinymovr-ROS: ROS 2 Hardware Interface for the Tinymovr Motor Controller
- Download models from IKEA website, potentially for simulation
- Alpamayo ROS package for Autoware integration is now available
- Example ROS 2 / Unity Simulation
- How PuppyPi Robotic Dog Achieves Its Remarkably Stable Gait
- Autonomous navigation software stack for the mobile robot “TERABO”, built with ROS 2 Humble and Docker
- Learning exercise to understand ArduPilot–MAVROS–ROS2 integration
- ShapeR – Robust Conditional 3D Shape Generation from Casual Captures
Got a Minute? 
Here are some recently created ROS and Gazebo Issues that we could use some help with! We’re also always looking for PR reviewers! Checking out a PR, building it, testing it, and giving the code a read-through really helps us move new features along.
- Help Wanted in ros2/ros2cli add unit tests for sub-command tab completer
- Help Wanted in ros2/ros2 Is there a strategy to automatically convert C++ classes or structures to IDL?
- Help Wanted in ros2/rmw_zenoh Just like fastdds_backend_statistics
- Help Wanted in ros2/ros2_documentation Canonical URL generation logic can lead to incorrect mirror results
- Help Wanted in ros2/common_interfaces the function read_points() of pointcloud2.py seems to change the cloud itemsize, breaks do_transform_cloud
- Help Wanted in ros2/teleop_twist_joy Feature: Add normalize_axes parameter for circular input mapping
- Help Wanted in ros2/rosbag2 A way to convert ros2 bags from one distribution to another
- Help Wanted in ros2/rviz Request FrameAligned view, as in ROS1
- Help Wanted in gazebosim/gz-sim Show selected entity when opening Component Inspector
- Help Wanted in gazebosim/gz-cmake Find one of multiple packages