ROS News for the week of May 11th, 2026
Registration for ROSCon Global is now open! We launched with a fantastic list of workshops for 2026 from all of your favorite package maintainers We recommend you take advantage of our early bird tickets which make workshop registration effectively free!
Our Lyrical test and tutorial party wrapped up yesterday and we’re still triaging tickets. All I can say right now is that we closed WAY MORE tickets than last year and consequently smashed more bugs than last year.
Big thanks to everyone who pitched in, we really appreciate your help. Personally, I was really impressed with the attention to detail from our tester this year. Your keen eyes really helped us find a ton of things that need to get fixed.
Lyrical Luth will be released next Friday, May 22nd! Expect a bunch of fanfare and excitement. If you want to grab some swag you can do so via our swag store.
Altara is a React component library for real-time robotics telemetry and user iterfaces. It connects natively to ROS Bridge and ships with components that most people end up rebuilding from scratch. It looks super handy!
Polka is a low latency point cloud ROS 2 node which, merges LIDAR scans, re-publishes laser scans, provides granular filtering, and performs de-skewing. It looks like a great starting point for a more advanced laser scan stack.
This RViz 2D plot plugin is something so simple, so practical, and so useful that I am really surprised it didn’t already exist! Great work @Abdelrahman!
Events
- 2026-05-16 ROS Japan UG #62 Vibe Codingしばりのハッカソン
- 2026-05-17 ROBORACER @ ICRA 2026
- 2026-05-18 Cloud Robotics WG Meeting
- 2026-05-18 Cracow Robotics & AI Meetup #15
- 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
- 2026-05-28 ROS Meetup à Nantes
- 2026-06-03 MoveIt Pro Works Here: Inventia Life Science Develops LIGŌ 3
- 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 2026
- 2026-11-05 International Conference on Humanoid Robotics, Innovation & Leadership
- 2026-11-25 => 2026-11-26 ROSCon Belgium 2026
News
ROSCon Global 2026 Registration Now Open! Workshop and exhibitor info now available!- Accelerating Physical AI: FANUC Integrates with Intrinsic and Flowstate
- Hello Robot’s latest Stretch 4 is bigger, faster, and stronger than previous versions
- Video: Material Handling Robots, Robot Navigation, More
- Oishii raises $150M for its robotic vertical farming system
- Automated Tire decloaks with new autonomous tire-changing SmartBay
- Hugging Face launches agentic toolkit for Reachy Mini
- Roboto.ai Added to RBR 50 for 2026
- b-Robotized on Scaling ROS
- InOrbit.AI has been selected to be part of the Gemini Startup Forum
ROS
- Lyrical Luth Test and Tutorial Party Instructions
- New packages for Humble Hawksbill 2026-05-14
- Polka - Your everything pointcloud node Release v0.2
- jros2 Cellphone Sensor Bridge: Native ROS 2 nodes on Android
- rviz_2d_plot_plugin: Live 2D Plotting Inside RViz 2
- RViz 2 plugin for live 2D plotting of ROS 2 topic data directly inside RViz.
- Altara — open-source React component library for ROS 2 dashboards
- Micro-ROS on Microcontrollers: Porting Guide with Custom Interfaces
- A proposal for a LidarScan sensor message
- What patterns of logs or warnings should an automated bridge promote to structured faults in ROS 2?
- Upcoming Lyrical Feature Freeze
- CLIM: Open-RMF-style Delay Advisory and Evidence Windows for command-feedback integrity
- Parallel robots in ROS
- MBF - My quadruped robot dog
- GitHub & Code Hosting
- Official state and timeline of ROS2 Bazel build
- Handling high hardware/communication latency (~360ms)
- Bridging ROS 2 and VDA5050-style Fleet Telemetry: Command Integrity via NARH
- Improving Gazebo Asset Import Workflow for External Models with Textures
- Introducing an Rviz Alternative that runs SUPER FAST
- Gazebo PMC Meeting Minutes 2026-05-11
- ROS 2 Info v2.0.0 — fastfetch for your ROS 2 workspace
- Built an Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) for warehouse automation
- rbot: an open-source AMR simulation stack for ROS 2 Jazzy and Gazebo Harmonic
- RoboInfra is the missing infrastructure layer for robotics development
- emcon_gz_hardware_interface: A DDS-bypassing hardware interface for Gazebo Harmonic
- ROS 2 Launch YAML/XML Schema + VS Code Integration
- ros2_lingua: A safe, dependency-aware grounding engine for LLMs
- volcaniarm: a 2-DOF stepper motor arm for weed detection in agriculture
- tesseract_python Release 0.6.0a1
- Nav2 + Open-RMF: How We Built a Scalable Fleet Coordination System with Andino
- rosbag_timing_inspector: A GUI tool to visualize and analyze message timing
- Numpy-only dynamic object removal for LiDAR point clouds
- Homebrew Tap for pre-built ROS 2 binaries (Humble, Kilted, Jazzy) for macOS Apple Silicon
- Build and run ROS 2 natively on macOS
- artemis_mission_simulator: simulate NASA’s Artemis missions using ROS 2 and Gazebo!
- LiDAR_IMU_Init Robust Real-time LiDAR-inertial Initialization Method
- OpenVO: Implementation of Open-World Visual Odometry with Temporal Dynamics Awareness
- SAM3D: Segment Anything in 3D Scenes
- q3dviewer - Visual Studio Marketplace
- Awesome-Geospatial: Long list of geospatial tools and resources
- openMVS: open Multi-View Stereo reconstruction library
- UIUC LeKiwi - Low-Cost Mobile Manipulator
- NextBestPath: Efficient 3D Mapping of Unseen Environments
- PythonRobotics: Python sample codes and textbook for robotics algorithms.
- Autonomous Vehicle Control Beginners Guide in Python
Who’s Hiring?
Got a Minute? 
The Lyrical Test & Tutorial Party is over but we still have bugs on the board that need to get smashed.
I’m so busy today I probably won’t have time to close the T&T party PR submission form until Monday. 