SIG For Physical AI Meeting, August 21st: Surveying AI usage in ROS - Andrea Miller – CMU

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This week the ROS Special Interest Group for Physical AI is happy to share that we will be hosting Andrea Miller from CMU to share her research on how people are using AI in robotics development. You may have seen one of her surveys earlier this year:

Call for Participants in a Research Study on ROS Developer Experiences

I shared this survey on ROS General previously, but I am looking for additional participants and want to hear from you! We are a group of software engineering researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, VORTEX Collab, and the University of Lisbon. We are conducting a research survey to better understand the information needs, tooling gaps, and the role of AI in the ROS development process. This survey is estimated to take ~15-20 minutes to complete. The research survey is open to ROS developers…

The meeting will be at 2026-08-21T15:00:00Z for meeting details please find the event on the Google Calendar for future reference it’s embedded into the ROS Governance page in the documentation. More information can be found in the recent announcement:

ROS Keeps Evolving via Physical AI SIG

The OSRA, in collaboration with our new Special Interest Group on Physical AI (SIG PAI), just published a blog post that details their recent efforts, thought processes, and roadmap for the future of Physical AI and ROS. We would love it if you took a look and shared it with your friends and colleagues! As AI rapidly reshapes robotics, software tools specialized for Physical AI are appearing at a rapid pace. This has led the community to ask questions about the future of existing tools designed…