JdeRobot

Programming Robot Intelligence

[JdeRobot @JdeRobot]

🌞🧑‍💻 JdeRobot is officially back for #GSoC 2026! Help us push the boundaries of open-source robotics in education and AI. From computer vision and drones to containerization, we have plenty of exciting projects ahead.

ℹ️→ https://t.co/qFQwB1TTTP

#OpenSource #AI #Robotics

[JdeRobot @JdeRobot]

The "Pick and place" challenge is available at our Unibotics robot programming website: the UR5 industrial robot has to pick colored objects from a table and place them in the corresponding colored box. Arm control is completely position-based with MoveIt2
https://t.co/8o5mUqzP4C

[JdeRobot @JdeRobot]

WIP: we are exploring walking gait for humanoid robots in @GazeboSim , with RL. For now at Mujoco and MujocoLab, in 3 threads: A for Mujoco ticks; B for control of the joints, it runs the inferences of the RL-policy; C for the high level robot application
https://t.co/Ojt2F3ekxy

[JdeRobot @JdeRobot]

Do you wanna learn to program the navigation of a high-end vacuum cleaner to clean a house? Practice with the coverage Backtracking Spiral Algorithm (BSA) 🚀It is now available at our Unibotics robot programming website (https://t.co/qw4Cbg7E6q).

https://t.co/5GzkZND2aL

[JdeRobot @JdeRobot]

Google has granted 5 slots in GSoC-2026 to JdeRobot for developing open source projects on Robotics and AI https://t.co/Bo9YbWFENE 🚀. Thank you @GoogleOSS for your confidence and support😀.
Congratulations to the selected candidates and welcome to your developer community!

[JdeRobot @JdeRobot]

Do you wanna learn a good collision avoidance algorithm for robots? Practice with the classic Dynamic Window Approach (DWA). It's now available at our Unibotics robot programming website https://t.co/qw4Cbg7E6q, in Python (soon in C++ and direct ROS).
https://t.co/dG40QDueDk

[JdeRobot @JdeRobot]

We are launching the Unibotics Robot Programming Challenge📌
- Online asynchronous
- Python
- Free, just for fun
- Based on ROS @rosorg and @GazeboSim
Program a Formula1 car to follow the red line drawn in the floor along several race circuits🏎️. Rules at https://t.co/Joun17PLMq

[JdeRobot @JdeRobot]

WIP in our Unibotics robot programming website exploring O3DE simulator + Meta Quest3 Virtual Reality glasses for immersive robotics applications: https://t.co/KjH2kdHd4s Your source code drives the Formula1 car, you are in that car with the VR glasses, looking where you want 🚀

[Google Open Source @GoogleOSS]

GSoC is such a great program and Stephanie works so hard to make it better every year.

[Google Open Source @GoogleOSS]

📢 Time to meet the 2026 mentoring organizations for GSoC 2026‼️

Learn more about the 185 mentoring orgs and get started with the must application tips to be the next Contributor for GSoC 2026🚀

➡️ Find the full blog here: https://t.co/s6WEpKLDcq
#GSoC #OpenSource #GoogleSummerofCode #Techcommunities

[#nerdearla @nerdearla]

¿Te gustaría programar tu propio robot desde el navegador? 🤖

José María Cañas Plaza (@JdeRobot) y Javier Izquierdo Hernández te enseñan cómo hacerlo con https://t.co/SFHHLN3JVU, usando Python o C++ sobre ROS y Gazebo.

📍 Online Workshops

Míralo online 👉 https://t.co/dT6jDnU3Tb

#Nerdearla 🇪🇸

[JdeRobot @JdeRobot]

Great time at @rosconspain! We hosted a hands-on #Unibotics workshop showcasing the latest updates, including ROS 2 integration and C++ support. These features bring students even closer to real-world robotics. Thanks to everyone who joined us! 🤖 https://t.co/rsI72hyFpc

[ROSCon Spain 2026 @rosconspain]

🤖 ¡Último workshop del día en #ROSConES2025!
📍 Sala Dalí
RoboticsAcademy + Unibotics ahora en #ROS2
👥 José María Cañas, David Pascual y Javier Izquierdo (@JdeRobot)
🕠 17:30–18:30
Aprende a usar estas potentes plataformas educativas para enseñar y experimentar con #ROS2 🧩

[JdeRobot @JdeRobot]

Our RoboticsAcademy (6.0) is available! New features:
- the UI has been completely refactored
- rviz2 added as debugging tool
- 3+ new exercises: DeepLearning e2e visual control of a racing car, drone power tower inspection, Digital Image Processing....

https://t.co/0v3vvvU1bv

[JdeRobot @JdeRobot]

🚀 Amazing job from Javier Izquierdo on Google Summer of Code 2025 @GoogleOSS. He improved BT Studio with a new user interface and an improved the subtree library.

Blog: https://t.co/1osIs2ilbs

BT Studio x GSoC: https://t.co/hLsdwj7Fw3

[JdeRobot @JdeRobot]

🚀 Congrats to Sakhineti Praveena on completing her #GSoC project!

She boosted DetectionMetrics with object detection (COCO+mAP), a Streamlit GUI, and CI for testing & docs, making it faster and more user-friendly 🙌

📘 Blog: https://t.co/ULXrn127EB

https://t.co/qWwdzjnaqD

[Davide Faconti @facontidavide]

"Amazon Robotics, the largest robotics developer in the world, having deployed more than 1 million robots, never adopted the service internally, according to multiple sources"

https://t.co/fhBK7NWVUZ

[JdeRobot @JdeRobot]

Amazing job from @m_s_kabir on Google Summer of Code 2025🚀@GoogleOSS . With @GazeboSim @rosorg and @PyTorch a Formula1 car completes a lap to a race circuit following a red line. A trained neural network for e2e visual robot control makes the magic 😎
https://t.co/iydbz2Qxwt

[JdeRobot @JdeRobot]

Congratulations to Astha Sahu for your successful internship at JdeRobot!!!🤖. She has updated the Car Junction exercise in our RoboticsAcademy to @GazeboSim Harmonic developing an autonomous car model with Ackermann dynamics, camera and 3D lidar sensor
https://t.co/DaLYvXHlEa

[Davide Scaramuzza @davsca1]

We are excited to be among the very first groups selected by @NVIDIARobotics to test the new @NVIDIA #Thor. We have managed to run a #VisionLanguageModel (Qwen 2.5 VL) for semantic understanding of the environment, along with a monocular depth model (#DepthAnything v2), for safe autonomous navigation, all onboard. No cloud, no internet connection required! The video shows a simple result obtained in just two weeks of work.

Kudos to Leonard Bauersfeld Jiaxu Xing Ismail Geles Yannick Armati for making this possible!

#ComputerVision #Robotics @UZH_en @UZHspacehub @uzh_ifi @ERC_Research