ROS News for the Week of October 27th, 2025

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ROS News for the Week of October 27th, 2025


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ROSCon 2025 is a wrap! We’ll see you all again September 22nd through the 24th 2026 in Toronto, Canada. ROSCon videos should be out in a couple of weeks, in the mean time there are the live streams.


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If you are trying to understand why ROSCon was in Singapore this year, look no further than this article. Singapore’s National Robotics Programme reveals initiatives to advance robot adoption


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Intrinsic launched a new challenge at ROSCon 2025. The challenge is to use ROS 2, your favorite simulator, and Intrinsic’s Flowstate to complete a series of electronics manufacturing tasks. Competitors who perform well in simulation will get a chance to apply their work to a real work cell. There’s a US$180k prize pool and you must register by 2026-04-17T07:00:00Z,


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We’re moving all of our official project discussions over to the Zulip platform. See this post more information on how you can get connected and get involved.

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:desert_island: I’m on vacation next week so no news next week. =)

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Lot’s of off-by-one errors. Usually these are reserved for programming I believe :slight_smile:
Shouldn’t this be day 2 and day 3?

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The 0- versus 1- indexing debate lives on!

I actually mentioned it in my intro, but I have considered workshop day to be “day zero” since we introduced it, but since over half the conference participated, it’s probably safe to call it “day one” now.

Doesn’t stop those of us who have been around a bit from getting it wrong from time to time, though.

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Although I like the zero-based numbering concept for days at a developer conference, we have to account for those who grew up on Fortran or COBOL. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Or, most importantly in robotics, MATLAB.

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Moving from Matlab to Python after my studies and phd resulted in a 5 years identity crisis and I still shouting at elevator numbering to this day. I’m getting therapy

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