# ROS News for the week of September 14th, 2026 **URL:** \ **Category:** Community News\ **Tags:** weekly-update\ **Created:** [September 18, 2026, 7:04pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-september-14th-2026/58248 "2026-09-18T19:04:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1

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# ROS News for the week of September 14th, 2026 ![ROSCon_2026_Horizontal_FINAL](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/b/e/be10b549a9310e5a4b89a2fcf40f7e4bcdb74b5f.webp) 🎉 [ROSCon Global 2026 is next week in Toronto](https://roscon.ros.org/2026/)! If you can’t make it, our free live streams of the event will go up 2026-09-23T13:00:00Z and continue the following day. We’ll make an announcement when the stream goes live and pin the post on Discourse. ![Screenshot From 2026-09-18 11-35-42](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/b/1/b1bfafab2f1e378dfe252f33e4f16b8bfc989445.png) ![Screenshot From 2026-09-18 11-35-22](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/2/8/28f8b9032d4b37f394b9fc5b7357d34a5c4fe189.png) ![unnamed (11)](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/5/e/5e5fab7a172a3f43ccfa8eaa126e05348a620e32.png) ![Waterloo Robotics Tour](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/9/5/95912f6e226cb90cf3102ddc9c1e46f5908881b1.jpeg) ![HACKATHON (1)](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/6/b/6bec8e8c992ff72cdaafd66f81fa539eb4542fa6.jpeg) There are ton of official and unofficial events happening around ROSCon Global. If you are attending the event, we have a Rootly Mixer scheduled for Tuesday night, and a hackathon and bus tour planned for Friday (you should have an invite in your e-mail). I believe NVIDIA has a number of informal meetups planned for the ROSCon hotel coffee shop, and there’s an [Aerial Robotics Meetup](https://luma.com/k6fjcyct) and [Intel / Trossen Robotics mixer](https://luma.com/g06zexx6) on Tuesday night ![08_forum_interior_replanning_640](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/9/d/9d3d1192a9f16dbde5bf11b517fca3181e4fd2e3.webp) @formiat just released a [really well constructed drone navigation simulation](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/px4-ros2-drone-nav-map-free-3d-navigation-with-a-persistent-d-lite-planner-and-cuda-mppi-ros-2-jazzy-px4-sitl-gazebo-harmonic/58190) built on top of Gazebo, ROS 2, and PX4 and has fairly extensive documentation. If you are looking to get into autonomous drone navigation this is a great starting point. ![Screenshot From 2026-09-15 10-35-18](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/8/3/832e686f3a1a2cc99c699d823e37214058473602.jpeg) Ahead of ROSCon our colleagues at [InOrbit](https://www.inorbit.ai/) have released [Open Robot Ops (ORO 🥇 )](https://openrobops.org/) an open source robot operations platform. ORO is an open source reference platform for the new [ISO 21423 standard](https://www.iso.org/standard/86749.html) for how autonomous mobile robots (AMRs, called **IMRs** ) and fleet managers ( **IMRFMs** ) talk to each other. They gave a teaser of it at ROS By-The-Bay about a month back. ORO supports both ROS 2 and Open-RMF out of the box, so if you are looking to automate a robot fleet it is worth checking out. [More coverage on the Robot Report](https://www.therobotreport.com/inorbit-ai-releases-openrobops-iso-21423-reference-implementation/). # Events - [2026-09-20 Bring What You Built — Hyderabad robotics demo day + paid internships](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/bring-what-you-built-hyderabad-robotics-demo-day-paid-internships/58152) - [2026-09-22 Aerial Robotics Meetup @ ROSCon Global 2026](https://luma.com/k6fjcyct) - [2026-09-22 Bots & Bevs: An Intel Robotics Experience](https://luma.com/g06zexx6) - [2026-10-05 =\> 2026-10-09 Tech Week 2026 - Deep Tech Events](https://www.tech-week.com/deep-tech) - [2026-10-05 Cloud Robotics WG - Logging and Observability Guide Review Part 3](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/logging-and-observability-guide-review-part-3-cloud-robotics-wg-meeting-2026-10-05/57930) - [2026-10-05 SF Tech Week Robot Show-n-Tell](https://partiful.com/e/pLaphnYLZ4pDKyWNdu9A) - [2026-10-06 SF Tech Week Smart Fleet Meet & Greet](https://partiful.com/e/MXdZ2h4NRXDoF7dtSakX) - [2026-10-06 SF Tech Week Robotics Happy Hour with LiveKit & Dimensional](https://partiful.com/e/u610QKw40q4lh1MR5ZLJ) - [2026-10-06 SF Tech Week Designing for Physical AI: From Innovation Lab to Factory Floor](https://partiful.com/e/WHfwx55GwbeRGaZb6Q6B) - [2026-10-06 SF Tech Week Physical AI Happy Hour Hosted by Coreweave](https://partiful.com/e/Z2JcaSjMuPo5UZe8Lq86) - [2026-10-07 SF Tech Week Industrial Tech After Dark](https://partiful.com/e/RWCaBcZPAnrxnn9M5qke) - [2026-10-08 SF Tech Week Physical AI Playbook: From Prototype to Scale](https://partiful.com/e/ENY68RiP8kevcUgqQ0y0) - [2026-10-08 SF Tech Week Physical AI for the Built Environment](https://partiful.com/e/D3Nk3NFHRUvpRRfta46R) - [2026-10-08 SF Tech Week Building the Physical AI World](https://partiful.com/e/dAHuVfXdPXQ6pI46yt9Q) - [2026-10-09 SF Tech Week AI Frontier Summit - Intelligence at Scale: Agents, Physical AI & Chips](https://partiful.com/e/yFLBq1ig9Mu3UXvAAc1X) - [2026-10-09 SF Tech Week Bots & Bevs](https://partiful.com/e/v3SFetdJTicILdEbO4um) - [2026-10-09 SF Tech Week Stanford AI Lab](https://partiful.com/e/rRODbcehxoQ2HuR2naJD) - [2026-10-24 Weaponized Plastic Fighting League in Austin](https://weaponizedplastic.com/event/2026/08/14/austin.html) - [2026-11-05 International Conference on Humanoid Robotics, Innovation & Leadership](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/international-conference-on-humanoid-robotics-innovation-leadership/53922) - [2026-11-07 ROS Meetup Cartagena Colombia](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-meetup-cartagena-colombia-7-nov-2026/57994) - [Bi-weekly ROS Asia Pacific Developer Meeting](https://github.com/fujitatomoya/ros-apac-developer-meeting) # ROSCons - [2026-09-22 =\> 2026-09-24 Global ROSCon 2026 in Toronto](https://roscon.ros.org/2026/) - [2026-10-21 =\> 2026-10-23 ROSCon UK in Edinburg](https://roscon.org.uk/2026/) - registration now open - [2026-10-23 =\> 2026-10-26 ROScon Singapore](https://roscon.ros.org/sg/2026/) - applications open - [2026-10-27 =\> 2026-10-28 ROSCon Spain in Valencia](https://roscon.org.es/roscon2026/ROSConES2026.html) - reg open! - [2026-11-03 ROSCon Italy in Bologna](https://roscon.ros.org/it/2026/) - [2026-11-25 =\> 2026-11-26 ROSCon Belgium in Nivelles](https://roscon.ros.org/be/2026/) - reg is open! - [2026-12-03 =\> 2026-12-04 ROScon Turkey in Istanbul](https://roscon.ros.org/tr/2026/) - CFP opens soon - [2026-12-03 =\> 2026-12-04 ROS-Industrial Conference Europe 2026](https://rosindustrial.org/events/2026/12/3/ros-industrial-conference-europe-2026) # News - 🆒 [InOrbit.AI releases OpenRobOps ISO 21423 reference implementation](https://www.therobotreport.com/inorbit-ai-releases-openrobops-iso-21423-reference-implementation/) - [Gazebo PMC Meeting Minutes 2026-09-14](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/gazebo-pmc-meeting-minutes-2026-09-14/58127) - [ROS PMC Minutes for September 15, 2026](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-pmc-minutes-for-september-15-2026/58167) - [Intrinsic at ROSCon 2026](https://www.intrinsic.ai/events/roscon-2026) - 🆒 [Dimensional Grant Program – free robot hardware](https://build.dimensional.org/) - [Indy Autonomous Challenge Makes Self-Driving Racing History at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca](https://www.indyautonomouschallenge.com/2026-laguna-seca-results-2) - [ROBORACER @ IROS 2026m](https://autodrive-ecosystem.github.io/competitions/roboracer-sim-racing-iros-2026/) - [OLogic: Engineering Smarter Robots and Edge AI Devices with Cadence](https://community.cadence.com/cadence_blogs_8/b/corporate-news/posts/ologic-engineering-smarter-robots-and-edge-ai-devices-with-cadence?utm_content=461239004&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-330767498) - [NSF announces Physical AI Funding](https://www.nsf.gov/news/nsf-announces-3-additional-topics-part-nsf-x-labs-initiative) - [Robot Videos: Quadrotor From Birotors, Lunabotics, More](https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-quadrotor-from-birotor?itm_source=homepage&itm_medium=hero&itm_campaign=hero-2026-09-18&itm_content=hero3) - [Digit 5 Sets a New Bar for Humanoid Robot Safety](https://spectrum.ieee.org/humanoid-robot-safety) - [SoftBank agrees to acquire Robotics and AI Institute](https://www.therobotreport.com/softbank-agrees-to-acquire-robotics-and-ai-institute/) - [Icarus Robotics flies ISS-bound robot in microgravity for the first time](https://www.therobotreport.com/icarus-robotics-flies-iss-bound-robot-in-microgravity-for-the-first-time/) - [The evolution of Digit: Agility Robotics’ journey from Cassie to Digit 5](https://www.therobotreport.com/the-evolution-of-digit-agility-robotics-journey-from-cassie-to-digit-5/) - [Agility’s Digit 5 humanoid has new legs, batteries, safety upgrades](https://www.therobotreport.com/agilitys-digit-5-humanoid-has-new-legs-batteries-safety-upgrades/) - [ROS medical community updates](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-medical-community-updates/58184) - [NEW! Physical AI Robotics Masterclass — 2026 Cohort](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/new-physical-ai-robotics-masterclass-2026-cohort/58217) # ROS - 🆒 [GSoC 2026: Physical AI Inference and Trajectory Upscaling for ros2\_control](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/gsoc-2026-physical-ai-inference-and-trajectory-upscaling-for-ros2-control/58037) - 🆒 [Gazebo Event Camera Plugin for ROS 2 Jazzy + Gazebo Harmonic](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/announcement-gazebo-event-camera-plugin-for-ros-2-jazzy-gazebo-harmonic/58040) - 🆒 [Rosbag2 dynamic recorder (dynrec)](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/rosbag2-dynamic-recorder-dynrec/58192) - 🆒 [px4-ros2-drone-nav: map-free 3D navigation with a persistent D\* Lite planner and CUDA MPPI](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/px4-ros2-drone-nav-map-free-3d-navigation-with-a-persistent-d-lite-planner-and-cuda-mppi-ros-2-jazzy-px4-sitl-gazebo-harmonic/58190) - 🆒 [ros2\_fault\_injection: C++ fault injection framework for ROS 2 topics, services, and assertions](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros2-fault-injection-c-fault-injection-framework-for-ros-2-topics-services-and-assertions/57998) - 🆒 [Fingers as Legs — A hand with places to be](https://srl-ethz.github.io/website-fingers-as-legs/) - 🆒 [AgentSTAR: Agentic Shape Tracking and Reconstruction from Monocular Videos](https://agenticstar.github.io/) - [New packages for Kilted Kaiju 2026-09-17](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/new-packages-for-kilted-kaiju-2026-09-17/58231) - [New packages and patch release for Humble Hawksbill 2026-09-14](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/new-packages-and-patch-release-for-humble-hawksbill-2026-09-14/58121) - [New Packages for Jazzy Jalisco 2026-09-11](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/new-packages-for-jazzy-jalisco-2026-09-11/58027) - [A one-command installer for the apt-based ROS 2 path](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/a-one-command-installer-for-the-apt-based-ros-2-path/57843) - [How should place-originated spatial constraints participate in task planning and assignment in next-generation Open-RMF?](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/how-should-place-originated-spatial-constraints-participate-in-task-planning-and-assignment-in-next-generation-open-rmf/58049) - [New SMACC demo in Gazebo using the PX4 flight stack](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/new-smacc-demo-in-gazebo-using-the-px4-flight-stack/58232) - [AssemblyGrid v1: benchmarking multi-robot production, handoffs, coalitions, and concurrency](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/assemblygrid-v1-benchmarking-multi-robot-production-handoffs-coalitions-and-concurrency/58223) - [Native ROS 2 on Zephyr with Cyclone DDS](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/native-ros-2-on-zephyr-with-cyclone-dds/58222) - [Colcon-buildx: cross-compiling ROS 2 workspaces for arm64 and armhf boards, with prebuilt images for Kria, Pynq and Raspberry Pi](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/colcon-buildx-cross-compiling-ros-2-workspaces-for-arm64-and-armhf-boards-with-prebuilt-images-for-kria-pynq-and-raspberry-pi/58181) - [Dropping armhf (32-bit ARM) binary packages for Gazebo](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/dropping-armhf-32-bit-arm-binary-packages-for-gazebo/58156) - [Lyrical tutorial docker container](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/lyrical-tutorial-docker-container/58147) - [New CLI tool: fastdds\_transport\_viz — predict & measure per-topic DDS transport in ROS 2](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/new-cli-tool-fastdds-transport-viz-predict-measure-per-topic-dds-transport-in-ros-2/57900) - [Nav2 Ready v0.1.0 — A CLI readiness checker for custom Nav2 robots](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/nav2-ready-v0-1-0-a-cli-readiness-checker-for-custom-nav2-robots/58095) - [Debug, Visualize and Teleoperate anything ROS2 with Phantom Bridge](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/debug-visualize-and-teleoperate-anything-ros2-with-phantom-bridge/58088) - [Has anyone written a custom I²C transport for micro-ROS (or any MCU ROS stack)?](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/has-anyone-written-a-custom-i-c-transport-for-micro-ros-or-any-mcu-ros-stack/58035) - [An async first Rust client for ROS supporting multiple backends: ROS1, ROS2, rosbridge, and Zenoh](https://github.com/RosLibRust/roslibrust) - [Model Predictive Control in JAX](https://github.com/iit-DLSLab/mpx) - [Escaping the Robotics Build Trap with OpenRobOps](https://www.inorbit.ai/blog/openrobops-release) - [VLM-Driven ROS 2 Navigation on Gazebo via Dragonwing IQ-9075](https://www.hackster.io/naveenbskumar/vlm-driven-ros-2-navigation-on-gazebo-via-dragonwing-iq-9075-add4b8) - [Building smarter AMRs with the Arduino VENTUNO Q board](https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/09/11/building-smarter-amrs-with-the-arduino-ventuno-q-board/) - [ROS Japan UG #64 3D GS特集！ - connpass](https://rosjp.connpass.com/event/403418/) - [rqt\_lifecycle\_manager: RQT plugin to inspect and control ROS 2 lifecycle](https://github.com/ajtudela/rqt_lifecycle_manager) - [Egocentric 4D Demonstrations of Human Terrain Traversal](https://egohtr.github.io/) - [Making an ESP32-based quadcopter from scratch](https://github.com/okalachev/flix) - [Turbo Boosts CircuitPython Performance Up to 20x](https://www.hackster.io/news/turbo-boosts-circuitpython-performance-up-to-20x-99ba6838f274) - [Isaac ROS 4.5 packaged for conda on top of RoboStack (ROS 2 Jazzy, CUDA 13)](https://github.com/wolfv/isaac-forge) - [Joint Multi-Person Body Detection and Orientation Estimation via One Unified Embedding](https://github.com/hnuzhy/JointBDOE) - [Inverse Kinematics for a Tentacle Robot](https://www.hackster.io/news/inverse-kinematics-for-a-tentacle-robot-30b67eb77f25) - [ROS1 Noetic & ROS2 Humble/Lyrical driver for HM-LD1 dToF Lidar depth sensor module](https://github.com/myrobotproject/HM-LD1-ROS1-ROS2-driver) - [rosbag2\_storage\_rrd: An experimental rosbag2 storage plugin that records ROS 2 bags as Rerun .rrd files.](https://github.com/rerun-io/rosbag2_storage_rrd) ### _No ROS news next week as I’ll be busy running our post-ROSCon hackathon._ ☮ ❤ 🤖 --- _[View the full topic](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-september-14th-2026/58248)._