ROS News for the week of September 28th, 2026
ROSCon Global 2026 was last week in Toronto! There were a lot of big announcements, including Intrinsic releasing Intrinsic Open Core and wrapping up the AI for Industry challenge, PickNik and Qualcomm merging, Red Hat Enterprise Linux being elevated to a Tier 1 ROS operating system, and NVIDIA releasing Isaac ROS 5. In other news, ROSCon Global 2027 will be held in 
Krakow, Poland . Videos from ROSCon 2026 should be out in a couple of weeks.
On the heels of ROSCon we’re running our annual developer survey. We do not collect telemetry from the users of our open source projects, and this is the best mechanism we have for getting feedback on our open source projects. The good news is that we’re giving away
ROS or Gazebo shirts to survey participants chosen at random. If you make the time to take the survey there’s a pretty good chance you’ll get some free OSRF swag.
Orion is an open source 12 degree of freedom mini quadruped robot that runs ROS.. Unlike a lot of the other mini-quads out there it has a pair of stereo cameras, a LIDAR, and an NVIDIA Jetson so it can run a full Nav2 autonomy stack.
Are you struggling to properly configure your ROS middleware layer? Our colleagues at Clearpath have open sourced their ROSCon Global 2026 Workshop on Mastering the Jazzy RMW. Clearpath configures a lot of robots, and they’ve distilled their knowledge down to an easy-to-follow self-guided workshop that will teach you the ins and outs of RMW configuration.
Events
- 2026-10-05 Cloud Robotics WG - Logging and Observability Guide Review Part 3
- 2026-10-05 SF Tech Week Robot Show-n-Tell
- 2026-10-06 Robotics Happy Hour with Dimensional in SF
- 2026-10-06 SF Tech Week Smart Fleet Meet & Greet
- 2026-10-06 SF Tech Week Robotics Happy Hour with LiveKit & Dimensional
- 2026-10-06 SF Tech Week Designing for Physical AI: From Innovation Lab to Factory Floor
- 2026-10-06 SF Tech Week Physical AI Happy Hour Hosted by Coreweave
- 2026-10-07 SF Tech Week Industrial Tech After Dark
- 2026-10-08 SF Tech Week Physical AI Playbook: From Prototype to Scale
- 2026-10-08 SF Tech Week Physical AI for the Built Environment
- 2026-10-08 SF Tech Week Building the Physical AI World
- 2026-10-08 ROS Bremen Meetup
- 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
- 2026-10-16 => 2026-10-18 Maritime Robotics hackathon in San Francisco
- 2026-10-24 Weaponized Plastic Fighting League in Austin
- 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
- 2026-10-21 => 2026-10-23 ROSCon UK in Edinburg - 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
News
Complete the Open Robotics Annual Survey 2026 to enter the prize draw!- Open Source Intrinsic Core Released. More coverage at Forbes, OSRA Blog, Robot Report, or read the source code.
- ROS PMC Minutes for September 29, 2026
- Gazebo PMC Meeting Minutes 2026-09-28
- OpenCV Enterprise Edition
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux is now a supported platform for ROS
- Isaac 5.0, NVIDIA’s ROS Distribution, Brings Speed and Collaboration
- Boston Dynamics drops pinkie on new humanoid hand
- How Maven Robotics plans to automate industrial work, one task at a time
- Meet Flourish One, the Raspberry Pi-powered humanoid built for busy parents
- With the new VENTUNO Q board, Arduino hopes to make robotics development easier
- Qualcomm to acquire PickNik Robotics and keep MoveIt open-source – OSRA Blog
- Isaac ROS 5.0 brings AI agents to robotics development, says NVIDIA
- IAC completes autonomous racing event at Laguna Seca
- Building Assistive Robots to Help People Live Independently
ROS
- Introducing NoDL: the Node Definition Language (ROSCon recap)
- Orbital space robotics with ROS2 & Isaac Sim
- Orion: a ROS 2 12-DOF quadruped robot dog
- Clearpath ROSCon 2026 Workshop - Mastering the Jazzy RMW
- Seeed Studio open-source, hands-on mobile robotics course covering Jetson, ROS 2, AI perception, SLAM, and more
- REP-0158-2006 OpenUSD Conventions for Simulation Asset Interoperability in Open Source Robotics
- ROS 2 BuildHat Lego Spike/Prime Differential Drive Controller
- MoveIt 2 Setup Assistant Tutorial: Custom 3-Joint Arm Troubleshooting Guide (ROS 2 Jazzy)
- New Packages for Lyrical 2026-09-18
- Aerial Robotics Meeting - 26th August 2026
- Fifteen Years of MoveIt, and the Next Fifteen
- Open source SenseRobot Chess Clone - No ROS required
- Linorobot2 Cockpit: In-Browser Web Supervisor
- Mission Canvas — Turn Robot Skills into Real-World Tasks
- ROSCon Toronto FollowUp: Kubernetes/KubeEdge with ROS 2
- Shared_buffer_backend: shared-memory rosidl::Buffer for ROS 2 processes
- Has a CPU shared-memory backend for rosidl::Buffer been explored?
- Ros2_unbag is now available via the ROS 2 buildfarm
- Announcement: rclrs 0.8.0 Release
- Collision Aware Motion Planning with NVIDIA Isaac ROS cuMotion
- From CT Scan to Robotic Surgery Prototype: Kidney Stone Detection & PCNL Planning in ROS 2
- Camera calibration without a checkerboard
- MOOS-IvP Skills plugin for coding agents: v1.4.12
- ROS medical community updates
- LGDXRobot2: Now Supporting ROS 2 Lyrical
- New packages for Kilted Kaiju 2026-09-17
- ROS 2 driver for OSCP IMU and INS devices
- MarsLab — A Martian Rover Simulator for Autonomous Navigation
- Mr_Robot: Mr. Robot: a wheeled humanoid in a Webots kitchen
- ROS 2 CPP Drills
- AgenticROS AntiGravity Setup
- balena production support for NVIDIA Jetpack 7.2 on Jetson Thor
- mapoi: Nav2 Point of Interest Editor
- visor: A homegrown ROS 2 viewer written in Rust that connects directly to a zenoh router
- OpenArm 2.0 - An open-source 7-DOF robot arm
- Weekly Robotics #378
- Roboracer competition fueling the next generation of autonomous driving engineers
- mid360_gazebo_harmonic: Livox MID-360 simulation plugin for Gazebo Harmonic.
- shared_buffer_backend: Experimental packages to try memfd backend rosidl::Buffer.
- AR-LIO: A highly efficient, CUDA-accelerated framework for LiDAR-Inertial Odometry.
- D3DWA: Adaptive Weight and Prediction-Horizon for Dynamic Window Approach via Dueling Double Deep Q-Network
- OpenMV LiDAR Camera Module – OpenMV
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