ROS News for the Week of July 27th, 2026

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ROS News for the Week of July 27th, 2026

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:japan: ROSCon Japan in Tsukuba is happening next week! We’re really looking forward to seeing all of the cool projects happening in Japan right now.


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Our next ROS By-The-Bay will happen on Thursday, August 13th, at the InOrbit Robot Space in Mountain View. We’ve got some great speakers lined up, including InOrbit CEO Florian Pestoni, my colleague @Andrew_Symington, who will tease his new ROS Central Registry, and Ramon Yvarra, who helped build a working Johnny 5 replica that runs ROS.


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Check out this great series on how to build a 6-DOF (5+1 Gripper) robotic arm with ROS 2 and an ESP32 for under US$50. Additional details and CAD files can be found on the author’s website.


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One of the coolest things I saw at Teardown last week was the q8 robot. The q8 is a dead simple open source hardware and software quadruped that consists of eight Dynamixel servos, a battery, a BMS, and an ESP32. It doesn’t run ROS 2 just yet, but it should be pretty easy to get microROS running on the ESP32.


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Polka v0.5 has been released. Polka is a ROS node that does all your 2D/3D lidar processing in one efficient package. Polka lets you merge a 2D point clouds, flag sensor sync/drop issues, filter points, control your QoS settings, and deskew your data in a single interface.

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We’re still looking for more ROS 2 PR reviewers. If you would like to join us for our weekly :waffle: meeting at 2026-08-06T16:30:00Z just drop me a DM with your e-mail address and I’ll add you to the invite.

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