Huge news!

🇨🇦Thanks to @SeeTorontoNow we've extended regular price ROSCon Global registration until 2026-08-27 at 11:59pm.

💰Save $300 when you register before the deadline!

We're looking forward to seeing you in Toronto this September 22nd-24th.

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CoRL Keynote. Hilton Austin. Monday Nov 9, 1:45 pm. 2 days countdown.

Something extraordinary.

The Open #Robotics Annual Survey is open until November 30th. Please contribute back to the community by taking the time to complete it! The responses help us direct our efforts to serve the community better. (plus you may win schwag 😉)

openrobotics.org/blog/2026/9/29…

#OpenSource

Today I am releasing #BehaviorTreeCPP 4.11.0

A part from a ton of hardening and bug fixes, contributed by many users, there are two important highlights:

- New pre-conditions: "onlyIf" and "onStart"
- New Controller Node: "Finally" (no pun intended)
- XML validation

We also release Groot2 (not the other one) 1.10.0, to support these new functionalities ❤️

Attenting CoRL?
Join our Austin Robotics community November 10th at Antler VC downtown:
luma.com/zskz4acb?tk=NH…
#CoRL #CORL2026 #Robotics #Austin #Texas

Running ROS 2 on dual-brain boards just got a whole lot easier!

At ROSCon Global 2026 in Toronto, Giovanni Bruno from the Arduino R&D team revealed Arduino_RouterBridge_ROS – an open-source library that is built to let your real-time microcontroller I/O publish and subscribe direthe MPU using an RPC transport built on MsgPackRPC.

Check out our blog post for a technical breakdown, explore the GitHub repo, and browse our new documentation to get started with ROS 2 on UNO Q: blog.arduino.cc/2026/11/06/unv…

autowarefoundation/autoware_off-road_sim

The Autoware-RoboRacer Off-road Simulator is a multi-vehicle high-fidelity simulation framework for Autoware and RoboRacer off-road race cars, built on NVIDIA Isaac Sim with ROS 2 Humble integration. This simulator was developed for the ct to facilitate the training and evaluation of autonomous driving algorithms within off-road and racing ODDs. This research is part of an ongoing collaboration between the Autoware Off-road/Racing Working Group and the Autoware Center of Excellence (CoE) at the University of Pennsylvania.

We've lined up some amazing guests for November Gazebo Community Meeting!

Our colleagues Abdullahi Weheliye and Jose Banos from @OTTOMotors will be joining us next Wed, Nov. 18th, at 9am PT to discuss how Otto uses Gazebo to simulate AMR deployments.

luma.com/pwpq3eh6

StrataSLAM: open-source multi-floor SLAM for #ROS2 🏢

youtu.be/0jp8mhmuQsI

Stairs, ramps, elevators, drones between floors. One map per floor, and identical floors never collapse into one.

Camera, LiDAR or both · IMU optional · Apache-2.0

Here is you #ROS and open source robotics news for the week of November 2nd, 2026:

🍕ROSCon Italy 2026 is a smashing success!
🍕ROS Meetup in Cartagena Colombia tomorrow
🍕ManyForge: a graphical manipulation framework
🍕Lopsy: a ROS 2 cable robot with a full sim

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@rosorg India is back with #ROSCon2026 to IISc Bengaluru from 2 to 4 December.

It brings together developers, researchers, students, startups and industry teams building India’s robotics future with ROS. Last year in Pune, it drew 1,000+ attendees a day, and this year the aluru.

Here’s what’s lined up:
🎤 Keynotes and technical talks
🏭 Industry spotlight
🛠️ Hands-on workshops
💬 Panels and fireside chats
🚀 Startup showcase

Hosted by @rigbetellabs, powered by ARTPARK, in association with @OpenRoboticsOrg.

Building something with ROS? Submit your talk before proposals close on 8 November: forms.gle/FmZxYaPiLVswsY…

Early bird passes close on 12 November, so lock yours in now at rosconindia.in

See you at JN Tata Auditorium, IISc! 🤖

#ROSConIndia #ROS #Robotics #OpenSource #ARTPARK #IISc

Here is your #ROS and open source robotics news for the week of Oct 26th, 2026:
🎃Welcome @achorde your new ROS PMC Lead
🎃ROSCon Spain is a wrap
🎃ROSCon Italy kicks off next week
🎃@luxonis OAK 4 FFC dev board giveaway
🎃Robotheca: searchable list of open source robots
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I've been building a ROS 2 stack for my SO-101 arm

Simulate it in Gazebo, plan with MoveIt 2, and drive the real arm with ros2_control or teleop it with the leader arm. Uses your LeRobot calibration, no LeRobot at runtime.

Open source, ROS 2 Jazzy:

This is huge for robotics.
The first ROS meetup in New York City is happening this week! 🗽

Word on the street is that NYC is seeing the birth of various robotics startups, based in Manhattan and Brooklyn Navy Yard.
See you guys there!

Manca solo una settimana a #ROSCon Italy 2026!

ROSCon IT 2026 è un'opportunità per gli sviluppatori #ROS di ogni livello di trascorrere una giornata straordinaria, dedicata all'apprendimento e al networking con la comunità ROS italiana. roscon.ros.org/it/2026/

We made a NEW robot!
RL(Issac & MuJoCo) @NVIDIAAI, ROS @rosorg / micro-ros @EProsima , $$$. All in ONE! 🤖🚀
📦 30 samples will be delivered(DDP) in mid-Nov.
For more information, please check out:
👉 youtube.com/watch?v=afQ3It…

Attention NYC #robotics professionals!

We're happy to announce that we're holding a #ROS meetup this coming Thursday at the Google Chelsea office. We'll have speakers from Tangent Robotics, Cohesive Robotics, and Intrinsic on hand.

luma.com/r42mzi6r

We're excited to welcome @ahcorde as the newest project lead for #ROS! He's a longtime contributor and supportive community member who enjoys helping others give back to the project.

Learn more about him here: discourse.openrobotics.org/t/new-project-…

#Robotics

Just dropped by the @tangentrobotics office in midtown to check out their new tactile grippers that run #ROS and MoveIt on the backend.

Really impressive work on dexterous manipulation (and data collection)!

🌈Do you like colors?

Thanks to our colleague Peng Wang at @Qualcomm colored CLI output is coming to ROS 2!!!

github.com/ros2/ros2cli/p…

Here is your ROS and open source robotics news for the week of October 19th, 2026:
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿ROSCon UK concludes in Edinburgh
🇸🇬A sold-out ROSCon SG kicks off in Singapore
🇪🇸ROSCon Spain next week in Valencia
🇮🇳ROSCon India in Bengaluru announced
📹Ad-free ROSCon Global 2026 videos
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