It was an eventful week, featuring a visit to the Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CoRIS) Institute at Oregon State University. They have such a cool research lab, and every single robot in it runs ROS! There are a lot of photos from the trip and we’re checking now to see whether we can share them with the community. If you’re ever going to be in the area, let us know and we’ll set up introductions so you can maybe get a tour.
Good things are happening over in Open-RMF, with a next generation well on the way. We’re working with Grey and the community on things like promotion plans, naming, and trademarks. There’ll be much more news about this next generation in the coming months, so stay tuned to this bat channel.
Of course Open-RMF isn’t the only project getting attention. We have regular meetings with the project leads. This week we worked with them to come up with a process for handling questions and requests for each other so we don’t lose track of anything. The projects have already sent us requests that we’re working on, for things like release artwork and even more trademark work.
A lot of follow-up work came out of the most recent OSRA TGC meeting. You’ve already seen some of it with the newly updated policy for genAI use in contributions, but the others will take more time. This includes a new security policy that will ensure we’re ready when the next deadline for EU’s CRA regulation lands in December 2027.
Naturally there’s still a lot happening with helping out the local ROSCon organizers. This week we set up introductions to some potential sponsors, aside from the usual contracts and logistics assistance. And let’s not forget that the local editions aren’t the only ROSCons. We’re wrapping up the final threads from ROSCon Global 2026 and pulling together the initial threads for 2027, laying the groundwork for the planning to start in earnest after the turn of the year.
These have been some of the highlights from this past week for your Open Robotics leadership team.