ROS News for the Week of October 26th, 2026 
ROSCon Spain wrapped up this week in Valencia and our inaugural ROSCon Italy kicks off next week in Bologna. I hear that there is going to be pizza along with some awesome speakers. 
We had an amazing ROS Meetup in NYC last night. Our colleagues from Fauna Robotics, Tangent Robotics, and Cohesive Robotics all dropped by to discuss how ROS is critical to the success of their organizations.
Say hello to @ahcorde, your new project lead for the ROS PMC! Also a big thank you to @mjcarroll, our outgoing project lead.
Robotheca is a searchable collection of open source hardware and software robots. You can search the archive by BOM price, component, and a host of other parameters
Events
- 2026-11-03 Physical AI & Robotics Developer Workshop with Intel
- 2026-11-04 Dedicated meeting to discuss REP 0157
- 2026-11-05 International Conference on Humanoid Robotics, Innovation & Leadership
- 2026-11-06 ROS Office Hours
- 2026-11-07 ROS Meetup Cartagena Colombia
- 2026-11-16 Cloud Robotics WG Meeting: Open Telemetry with Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
- 2026-11-25 Gazebo Community meeting: How OTTO by Rockwell Automation uses Gazebo
- 2026-12-07 Humanoid Robots for Space Exploration @ Humanoids 2026
- 2026-12-07 => 2026-12-09 2026 IEEE-RAS 25th International Conference on Humanoid Robots
- 2026-12-12 => 2026-12-13 Maker Faire Shenzhen
- 2027-01-30 => 2027-01-21 FOSDEM 2027 Robotics & Simulation Devroom
- Bi-weekly ROS Asia Pacific Developer Meeting
- Robotics Meetup Bremen - every 1st Thursday of a month
ROSCons
- 2026-11-03 ROSCon Italy in Bologna - registration open
- 2026-11-25 => 2026-11-26 ROSCon Belgium in Nivelles - registration open
- 2026-12-03 => 2026-12-03 ROSCon India
- 2026-12-03 => 2026-12-04 ROScon Turkey in Istanbul - CFP opens soon
- 2026-12-03 => 2026-12-04 ROS-Industrial Conference Europe 2026
- 2027-01-26 => 2027-01-28 ROSCon DE in Ulm
- 2027-05-20 => 2027-05-21 ROSConJP in Osaka
News
New Project Lead for ROS PMC!- ROS PMC Minutes for October 20, 2026
- Gazebo PMC Meeting Minutes 2026-10-26
- Luxonis: New Silver OSRA Member and a New Product Release (that you can win!)
- ROSCon China 2026 - A Tremendous Success for the ROS Community
- Dedicated meeting to discuss REP 0157: Wednesday, 4 November 2026
- This Week at Open Robotics Headquarters (2026-10-19)
- Intrinsic CEO Wendy Tan White on ‘Democratizing’ Robotics
- ROSCon UK 2026 Recap: Thank You Edinburgh!
- Robot Videos: Whole Body Manipulation, Microduck, More
- White House makes Section 232 determination regarding foreign-made robots
- Xpanner launches autonomous pile driver for solar farm contruction
- Bedrock Robotics nears $1B in total funding as demand for autonomous heavy equipment surges
ROS
- Jacob’s Ladder - ROS 2 + PX4 external-modes framework for UAV autonomy
- lightBot: rebuilt a ROSOrin Pro from a blank drive after apt update broke it
- String command and state interfaces in ros2_control
- ROS 2 GUI Installer
- Zenoh + RaptorQ: Handling bulk asset transfer and command QoS in degraded/NLOS environments
- Autonomous Pallet Jack Project
- Drone companion controller prototype
- GPT-6 ASTRA Meets the Real World
- ROS 2 Driver for Blueprint Subsea Oculus M3000d
- RoboStack moved to a Monorepo
- We made a new ROS robot: Mini Pupper 4
- Beyond Callback Scheduling: Choosing Where Computation Executes in ROS 2 with C++26
- Testing the slam_toolbox multi-robot node with Nav2 on three TurtleBot3 Burgers
- BTick :an open-source tool for Behavior Tree monitoring and runtime control in ROS 2
- Robotheca: an open catalogue of 475 buildable open-source robots
- Make a Gazebo model in one sentence
- batchplan: batched motion planning for ROS 2, with a MoveIt plugin
- Meet ArduBot: A Palm-Sized Open-Source ROS 2 Robot
- SHARKY, a cheap extensible educational full ROS2 quadruped robot
- Compact Force Sensor for Dual-UAV Cable-Suspended Payload Transport
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