ROS News for the Week of October 5th, 2026
October is a busy month for regional ROSCons! ROSCon China in Shanghai is next weekend followed by ROSCon UK in Edinburgh. The following weekend is a sold out ROSCon Singapore (note that there is still space available for the pre-ROSConSG hackathon, and hackathon II). The month concludes with a two day ROSCon Spain in Valencia on October 27th and 28th.
This week @berkan_tali released Hold and Weld v.0.3.0. Hold and Weld is a ROS 2 workspace that uses a bimanual robot setup to both hold and weld components with a lot of parameters for configuring the weld path.
Jumper is an open source software and hardware crab robot built using Rust. The project includes a really slick in-browser simulator. While the robot doesn’t currently run ROS, adding a ROS autonomy stack seems like it would be fairly straight forward to implement.
@fmrico and our colleagues in Spain have released EasyNav 0.5.0 for Humble, Jazzy, Kilted and Lyrical. EasyNav interoperates with Nav2 in some capacities and includes a suite of simulated playgrounds for you to play with and evaluate.
Please take a moment to complete our annual Open Robotics Developer Survey. We’re starting to plan our project roadmaps for 2027 and we need feedback from our user community to help guide us! 50 lucky survey participants will get coupon code for a ROS or Gazebo shirt from our Open Robotics swag store.
Events
- 2026-10-09 SF Tech Week AI Frontier Summit - Intelligence at Scale: Agents, Physical AI & Chips
- 2026-10-09 SF Tech Week Bots & Bevs
- 2026-10-09 SF Tech Week Stanford AI Lab
- 2026-10-12 Open-RMF Office Hours
- 2026-10-15 Boston Robot Hackers Oct
- 2026-10-16 => 2026-10-18 Maritime Robotics hackathon in San Francisco
- 2026-10-19 => 2026-10-21 FIRA USA in Yakima
- 2026-10-21 (7pm PT, new time) Gazebo Community Meeting Scalable Multi-Robot Simulation in ROS 2 and Gazebo
- 2026-10-24 Weaponized Plastic Fighting League in Austin
- 2026-10-26 Community Meeting #65
- 2026-11-05 International Conference on Humanoid Robotics, Innovation & Leadership
- 2026-11-07 ROS Meetup Cartagena Colombia
- Bi-weekly ROS Asia Pacific Developer Meeting
ROSCons
- 2026-09-16 => 2026-09-18 ROSCon China in Shanghai
- 2026-10-21 => 2026-10-23 ROSCon UK in Edinburgh - registration open
- 2026-10-23 => 2026-10-26 ROSCon Singapore - registration open
- 2026-10-27 => 2026-10-28 ROSCon Spain in Valencia - registration open
- 2026-11-03 ROSCon Italy in Bologna - registration open
- 2026-11-25 => 2026-11-26 ROSCon Belgium in Nivelles - registration open
- 2026-12-03 => 2026-12-04 ROScon Turkey in Istanbul - CFP opens soon
- 2026-12-03 => 2026-12-04 ROS-Industrial Conference Europe 2026
- 2027-05-20 => 2027-05-21 ROSConJP in Osaka
News
Complete the Open Robotics Annual Survey 2026 to enter the prize draw!- ROSCon JP 2026 Highlight Video
- ROS PMC Minutes for September 29, 2026
- Gazebo PMC Meeting Minutes 2026-10-05
- ROSCon Global 2026: A record-breaking event
- AWS launches open-source Physical AI Toolchain for robotics
- FCC robot restrictions could accelerate shift to local AI
- Danu Robotics’ fight to build a better recycling robot
- Walking Robotic Hand Uses AI to Learn New Tricks
- Robot Videos: Reachy Mini, Robot Decommissioning, More
ROS
- Isaac ROS 5.0 with Pixi
- EasyNav 0.5.0 released for Humble, Jazzy, Kilted and Lyrical
- Hold_and_weld v0.3.0: Configurable dual-arm welding-grasping framework
- marine_source_tracking: Autonomous source tracking of marine pollution using USVs
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Jumper — an crab robot. - The Machines that Make the Machines
- Adding a new recurring Open-RMF Project meeting: Office Hours (literally)!
- Draft REP 158: OpenUSD Conventions for Simulation Asset Interoperability in Open Source Robotics
- SpaceMouse teleop + MuJoCo visual twin & data collection for AgileX PiPER
- Upcoming breaking changes in ros2_control: deprecated Handle / export APIs removed
- Uranus — Exploring a Data-Driven Approach to Robot Simulation
- Guidance on robot coordination in narrow bidirectional corridors with yielding bays
- Air–ground teaming with a humanoid robot: ROS 2 patterns for a shared event record?
- How are commercial/proprietary ROS 2 components typically distributed?
- Tesseract Monthly Check-In
- ROS 2 bridge for Rokoko Smartgloves II is released
- New Packages for Jazzy Jalisco 2026-10-05
- DialoStack: task-oriented spoken dialogue for ROS 2, with the LLM kept out of the control flow
- New Packages for Lyrical 2026-10-05
- RoboStacker: describe your robot, get a ROS 2 stack and a workspace to build
- Rosbag2 dynamic recorder (dynrec)
- ROS 2 Task Resilience — experimental mission persistence and restart recovery with Nav2
- Tuning StereoSGBM on PS5 Camera (ROS 2 Galactic) for Dense Depth Maps
- RobotCAD v12.10.0 is released!
- ROS 2 Parameter Value Querying
- Yeah Hand: open-source 15-DOF robotic hand with ROS 2 driver
- Pre-announcing ROSCon China 2026
- ScaRF-SLAM: Scale-Consistent Reconstruction with Feed-Forward Models and Classical Visual SLAM
- Robotics Workload Benchmark by Open Navigation
- Enhancing robotic interoperability: An approach for ROS 2-driven system integration – R3M_ObjectPoseEstimation – R3M_Perception
- TEMPO: Learning Temporal Context for Dynamic Robot Manipulation
- Q8botOne - A palm-sized open-source quadruped robot with ESP32-C3, DYNAMIXEL smart actuators (Crowdfunding) - CNX Software – * Crowd Supply
- OpenCV to NVIDIA Isaac Sim: Building the Physical AI Pipeline - OpenCV Live! 228 (Video)
- Native ROS 2 Humble on Avocado OS
- EllipseLIO: Adaptive LiDAR Inertial Odometry Approach with an Ellipsoid Representation
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