ROS News for the Week of May 4th, 2026
The ROS 2 Lyrical Luth Test Tutorial party is ongoing. The good news is we’re on the cusp of closing more tickets than we closed last year. The bad news is that, thanks to a larger test matrix, we have a lot more tickets to close than last year.
We could still really use your help! Everyone who pitches in will get their name in the Lyrical release notes, and there are still enough tickets left to be in the running for swag. If you want to test on easy mode @skye.galaxy just dropped Lyrical Docker files.
@tfoote just pushed a new stats page that displays the current number of open tickets across the YATM test matrix.
ROSCon ticket sales open up on Monday! On Monday we’ll also be announcing our first batch of sponsors and our ROSCon workshops. If you are planning to attend ROSCon Global in Toronto this September now is the time to start having those conversations with your employers and families.
It is 2026 and we’re all walking around with IMUs, cameras, and LIDAR systems in our pockets. Why not put them to good use on your robot with Sensor Stream?
Speaking of sensor streaming, @StefanFabian has released ros_camera_streamer a new tool that let’s you quickly setup your own ROS 2 , RTP , SRT , and WebRTC camera sources with minimal fuss. This tool makes it trivially easy to roll your own teleop and remonitoring solution with ROS 2.
Robotics is an expensive hobby, just ask any FIRST robotics team! @TamirL is trying to democratize ROS education by creating the most affordable ROS robot yet, MARPY (Most Afforable ROS Platform Yet). The total BOM cost is $50 US and you get a couple of wheels, an ESP32, and a camera. Most of the compute is performed locally. Check out the details here.
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
- 2026-05-21 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
- 2026-06-21 => 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
- ROS 2 Lyrical Luth Release Illustration and Swag
- Ouster’s new color lidar is coming to replace cameras
- Special Report: Cyborg Tech From the Inside
- Genesis AI introduces GENE-26.5 model for more dexterous robot manipulation
- ROSCon Türkiye
- ROBORACER @ ICRA 2026
- WaiV Robotics emerges from stealth to help drones take off and land at sea
- Inside Colin Angle’s bid to build companion robots with Familiar Machines & Magic
- Ouster releases REV8 OS sensor family with native-color lidar
- Why deformable materials are physical AI’s real manufacturing test
- California lawmakers open the gate for autonomous trucks in the state
- Participants wanted for a survey on tooling and AI use in the ROS community!
- Gazebo PMC Meeting Minutes 2026-05-04
ROS
- Lyrical Luth Test and Tutorial Party Instructions
- ROS M Name Brainstorming
- Add Lyrical Luth dockerfiles by skyegalaxy
- ALERT: do NOT visit plotjuggler.com
SensorStream iOS App - Use your iPhone as a sensor platform- Getting ROS 2 Running on Android (It’s Easier Than You Think!)
- Rclnodejs 2.0.0 beta — ROS 2 Lyrical (beta) and Node.js 26 support
- RVizSplat: Visualize 3D Gaussian splats in RViz!
- Camera streaming made easy
- MARPY: a <$50 micro-ROS robot
- emcon_gz_hardware_interface: A DDS-bypassing hardware interface for Gazebo Harmonic
- A Self-Contained Solution for Stepper Motor Testing
- lifecore_ros2: composing reusable ROS 2 Python lifecycle components
- UW Vision Sensors (Camera-Sonar) Synchronization Best Practice and Driver
- ROS 2 + Gazebo Harmonic on macOS 26
- Where does latency in WebRTC video streaming come from? An analysis
- Gazebo ROS 2 Runtime Suite for Harmonic: model import, bridge, and ros2 control managing
- Improving Asset Import Workflow for External Models with Textures (FBX, glTF, GLB, USDZ, etc.)
- RosBag Resurrector — pandas-like analysis for MCAP / ROS 2 bag files
- HX5-D20 Grasping with Tactile Sensor Feedback – Smarter Touch, Better Grasp
- Ouster unveil the first native color Lidar sensor
- “ROS 2 in a Nutshell: A Survey” is now published in ACM Computing Surveys
- ROS stack for cognitive machines
- What are you using for containerization in ROS deployments?
- ROS Lyrical Luth Beta and Call for Testing
- How to Build a DIY GNSS Reference Station
- TetherIA/aero-hand-open: Open Source Tendon Hand
- Isaac Lab API, powered by MuJoCo-Warp, for RL and robotics research
- C++ implementation of On-Manifold MPC
- Cloudini 1.2.0: faster and smaller + “viz mode”
- Controlling TurtleBot3 in a miniature world: From ROBOTIS’s xacro/URDF to MuJoCo + Godot
- Open Duck Mini Viewer
- Cuda implemenation of flash-kmeans, 2x faster
- lerobot_tactile: LeflexiTac: Giving robots a sense of touch. · GitHub
- termviz2: Terminal data visualization software for robotics powered by Rust, fed by ROS2. · GitHub
- SensorStream - iPhone Sensor Platform for Robotics – PaaS (Phone as a Sensor)
- grab2: Example manipulation behaviors using behavior trees, as well as Docker workflows in ROS 2 based projects
- Nav2 + Open-RMF: How We Built a Scalable Fleet Coordination System with Andino
- PCL Tutorial · Hands-on Point Cloud Library
- Add AsymmetricInflationLayer costmap plugin for path-aware lane-keeping
- genz-icp: GenZ-ICP: SOTA robust LiDAR odometry – paper
- ros2-dockergen: ROS 2 Docker Reference Images
- obotx open source robot
- Terminal PCL Visualizer
- How-to build a ToF sensor for ROS using the AMS TMF8829 and micro-ROS
Got a Minute?
The ROS 2 Lyrical Luth Test Tutorial party is ongoing. We really need everyone to roll up their sleeves and help us test the next ROS 2 LTS release!