Gazebo Simulator

Gazebo is a leader in robot simulation. Maintained by @OpenRoboticsOrg and good friends with @rosorg!

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[Gazebo Simulator @GazeboSim]

Gazebo Jetty is here!

Jetty is our latest long term support release of the Gazebo simulator.

Jetty comes with a suite of developer-focused features that make simulating your robot fast, easy, and flexible.

Check out the the release notes here:

https://t.co/ZS6ncnVFN7

[Open Robotics @OpenRoboticsOrg]

Here is your #ROS and open source robotics news for this week:

☀️#ROS & @Dronecode Meetups at ICRA
☀️@IntrinsicAI Challenge narrows to 31 competitors
☀️@PolymathRobots on making ROS executors fast
☀️@SeeedStudio certified open hardware arm
☀️RCLNodeJS version 2.0 drops

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[Open Robotics @OpenRoboticsOrg]

Here is your #ROS News for the week of May 18th, 2026:

🎵 ROS 2 Lyrical Luth has been released!
🎵 ROS Meetup at ICRA 2026 in Vienna
🎵 A new bi-manual mobile manipulator
🎵 ROS on a Steam Deck
🎵 New CUDA ROS 2 IK / FK Lib
🎵 Tons of ROS events!

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[Open Robotics @OpenRoboticsOrg]

Our latest #ROS distro, ROS 2 Lyrical Luth, has been released! 🎉

Lyrical is a long term support ROS release with tier 1 support for Windows 11 and Ubuntu 26.04 until May 2031.

This release has a ton of great features that make it worth the upgrade! 📈

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[Open Robotics @OpenRoboticsOrg]

🎉Registration for ROSCon Global 2026 in Toronto is now open!

We're offering ten workshops this year and we have an amazing collection of sponsors who will be joining us in our expo hall!

Register between now and July 12th to take advantage of discounted rates.

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[Open Robotics @OpenRoboticsOrg]

Here is your #ROS and FOSS robotics news for the week of May 4th:

🎸Urgent: ROS Lyrical Needs more beta testers
🎸ROSCon Tickets, sponsors, & workshops Mon
🎸ROSCon Turkey and Spain are go!
🎸Sensor Stream: iPhone sensor suite
🎸ros_camera_streamer: streaming is a snap!

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[Open Robotics @OpenRoboticsOrg]

🫵Hey You!🫵

Want to become a bona fide open source contributor to #ROS?

Good news! We still need lots of help with our Test and Tutorial Party for ROS 2 Lyrical Luth!

Install our beta, run a few tests, and we'll add you to the release notes and perhaps send you swag!

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[Open Robotics @OpenRoboticsOrg]

In case you missed it, here is a recording of our monthly @GazeboSim community meeting.

Our guest speaker was @debounSingh who provided a overview on how to build a simple Gazebo plugin that acts as an LED light source.

https://t.co/TbB3isJZki

[Open Robotics @OpenRoboticsOrg]

Here is your #ROS and open source robotics news for the week of April 27th, 2026:

🎸ROS 2 Lyrical Luth beta released
🎸Help us test Lyrical, get free swag!
🎸ROS Lyrical swag now available
🎸Gaussian Splats come to ROS 2 & RViz
🎸GPS-Denied nav with ROS & @PX4Autopilot

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[Open Robotics @OpenRoboticsOrg]

Want to learn how to build custom robot simulations?

Join us tomorrow, Wednesday, April 29th, for our monthly @GazeboSim community meeting where @debounSingh will explain how to build a simple Gazebo LED plugin.

It should be a great introduction to Gazebo development!

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[Open Robotics @OpenRoboticsOrg]

Want to add "open source contributor" to your resume?

All active participants in our Lyrical Luth beta testing will have their named added to our release notes.

If you want to pitch in join us tomorrow at 9am for our kickoff meeting where will show you the ropes of FOSS dev.
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[Jasmeet Singh @debounSingh]

See ya'll tomorrow (Wednesday, April 29th, 9 am PT / 9:30 PM IST) for the @GazeboSim Community Meeting!🚀 I'll be walking you through the process of building your own plugins for Gazebo and how you can use them to simulate LEDs for your robots!

The PR for the LED plugin is up and might soon be merged upstream 🎉: https://t.co/5eEQgOGFYZ

Meanwhile, you can give it a go from this repo: https://t.co/zQtfC9hHNs

I'll also be sharing some cool sneak peeks of another one of my upcoming projects: Artemis Mission Simulator 🌝: https://t.co/vpsfmoCxGb

[prefix.dev @prefix_dev]

Pixi is gaining traction fast in robotics, so we built a dedicated landing page to help roboticists get up and running quickly.

https://t.co/oeryPnZhXu

#ROS #robotics

[Arjun K Haridas @ArjunKHaridas1]

Been testing on some complex meshes while also making optimizations in parallel. Will be pushing to GitHub very soon!

#ROS #Gazebo

[Open Robotics @OpenRoboticsOrg]

Gaussian splats in RViz?!

It is finally happening!

@PatelVideh at @TryClutterbot just released an open source RViz plugin that lets you load GSplats directly in RViz!

This is a huge breakthrough and we can't wait to see what #ROS users do with it!

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[Open Robotics @OpenRoboticsOrg]

Want to learn how to build custom plugins for @GazeboSim?

@debounSingh will be at our Gz Community Meeting to walk us through the process soup to nuts.

Join us at 9am PT Wednesday!
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[Open Robotics @OpenRoboticsOrg]

Want to go from a ROS user to a ROS 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒖𝒕𝒐𝒓⁉️

Join us this Thursday, April 30th, at 9am PT to kick off our Lyrical Luth Testing Party.

🦾We need an army of open source beta testers ahead of general availability.

Our top testers will get free ROS swag.👕
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[Open Robotics @OpenRoboticsOrg]

Looking for a solution for GPS-denied UAV navigation?

Mohamed Abdelkader, a professor at @PSU_RUH, just released a paper, source code, and a Docker container, complete with @GazeboSim and @PX4Autopilot integration, on the topic of terrain based navigation.

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[Open Robotics @OpenRoboticsOrg]

Here is your #ROS and open source robotics news for the Week of April 20th, 2026:

🌸ROSCon Global talk proposals due this Sunday
🌸Help us beta test ROS 2 Lyrical Luth!
🌸Help us name the next ROS 2 "M" release
🌸New @JdeRobot Unibotics challenge
🌸Crewline raises $7.1M

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[Open Robotics @OpenRoboticsOrg]

Want to learn how to build a custom plugin for @GazeboSim?

Join us next Wednesday, April 29th, at 9am PT for our monthly Gazebo Community Meeting!

@debounSingh, our former GSoC student, and a robotics engineer at Eight Vectors will show you how to simulate a simple LED.

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[Open Robotics @OpenRoboticsOrg]

We need your help naming the #ROS "M" release!

The recipe for a ROS release is an adjective that starts with the letter "M" followed by a species of turtle that also starts with the letter "M."

For example, "modern marginata."

Get creative with it!

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