Open Robotics

Our mission is to support development, distribution, and adoption of open source software like #ROS and #Gazebo for use in the robotics industry. Formerly OSRF.

[Open Robotics @OpenRoboticsOrg]

Here is your #ROS and open source robotics news for the week of Oct 12th, 2026:

🤖ROSConCN kicks off in Shanghi
🤖@ROSConUK kicks off next Wed
🤖ROS By-The-Bay @ @IntrinsicAI w/ @youtalk
🤖Run RViz clone in your terminal
🤖DendROS colors your ROS terminal output

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[Open Robotics @OpenRoboticsOrg]

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https://t.co/xbjMxVlIhg

[Shuangyu Xie @Shuangyu0_0Xie]

Follow Gemini 4 Argon's report, I implemented their robotics harness.

Gemini did a zero-shot bimanual handover. Now open source 🤖👇

[Ayush Jain @ayushjain1144]

1/ We introduce TrackEverything: a 3D point tracker that tracks all points across all frames of long videos (1000+ frames).

Our key idea is to tie computation to unique 3D scene content rather than redundant 2D pixels in a video.

https://t.co/NYHPTTg0Gr

[Jim Fan @DrJimFan]

We built a robotics data engine with Astra-level performance at 125x lower cost. And we are open-sourcing the weights today! Introducing Flora, a suite of open models to parse the physical world and turn raw footage into rich training signals.

Flora already powers our in-house data engine, labeling 200K hours of videos a day on 500 GPUs. We created it to scale the frontier for robot learning. Now you own the weights too.

Flora gives you:

- High-quality, timestamped captions to curate and filter human egocentric and robot data;
- Dense progress rewards for quality control and RL post-training;
- Rubrics scoring for real-world benchmarking

Try it today, links in thread:

[Seeed Studio @seeedstudio]

🤖📦Did you spot this little robot helping move things between booths at ROSCon 2026 in Toronto?

Meet BETL, a personal robotics project by Isaac Doubek (IG: @ rustedfriend), featuring #reSpeakerFlex as its audio input module. From hotel-room soldering to real-world action on the show floor — that's maker spirit!

🔮 More to look forward to?
BETL's shell design is taking shape, starting with a physical scale model.
More iterations, navigation, and autonomy could be on the horizon!

Excited to see what's next for BETL! 🚀

🛒reSpeaker Flex: https://t.co/bsCTSmd4nR

#SeeedStudio #reSpeaker #reSpeakerFlex #MicrophoneArray #XMOS #VoiceAI #SoundAI #EdgeAI #EmbeddedAI #EmbodiedAI #XMOS #Robot #Robotic #VoiceInterface #SmartEarforEmbodiedAI #TheAIHardwarePartner

[Nacho Mellado @uavster]

first test of colored 3D point cloud from the stereo pair.

driving causes blur and makes the model uncertain about many pixels, which get knocked out from the point cloud to minimize error in downstream modules.

[Masato Kobayashi @るっと🐺 @MeRTcooking]

ULOHA: An Underwater Bimanual Robot System for Robot Learning

[Runtime @RuntimeBRT]

🚨 Delhi-based Stingray Robotix (@stingrayrobotix) has successfully tested their underwater hull-cleaning robot.

It can magnetically crawl along ship hulls, uses cavitation jets to remove biofouling and can go as deep as 200 metres.

[Stingray Robotix @stingrayrobotix]

Peek inside the crawler 👀
Custom ROS 2 interface board, onboard compute, sensors, and a lot of wires. All of it has to work underwater.
#Robotics #ROS2 #MarineTech

[NHK大阪ニュース @nhk_bknews]

JR西日本 新たな鉄道保守ロボットを導入へ
https://t.co/QJldl1POmn
#nhk_video

[Shengyu Huang @ShengyHuang]

1/7 I'm super excited to share LidarVerse! One model that reconstructs, forecasts and generates LiDAR across sensors, in real time.

📄 Paper: https://t.co/jY88yqTaM0
🌐 Project: https://t.co/ff3I2Ae7uj
💻 Code: https://t.co/pEvWbj29xB
🤗 Models: https://t.co/oqqK2u9kP3

[高須正和 | NT深圳 / Hardware Hacker @tks]

#ROSCONCN
「こんにちわ！ROSCONへようこそ！」とロボット犬が触れ回る

これはロボットのイベントらしくて良い
#rosjp でもやりたいなー

[dandelion @dandelion1124]

開閉するドア対応

[Frankie Chan @cha56307]

Cool, looks like the Open Robotics community is having a meeting on October 21st!.

[Pallavi Saha @PallaviSaha10]

ROSCon India 2026 is finally here 🇮🇳

Hosting ROSCon has always been a roller coaster of learnings & emotions, a 1000+ people across the country joining in for a 3 day event, uff 🤯!
But the success stories of all previous editions is something that keeps me going to make sure that we bring it back every year!

Although a little later than usual, we’re back, hoping to see an even larger quantum of folks joining the community of Robotics in India this year!

I don’t know how many of you have attended earlier editions, but if you have, would love to hear your stories ✨

@rigbetellabs @artparkindia @OpenRoboticsOrg @RoboticswithV

[Aditya Kamath @kamathsblog]

Didn't expect to see the OG ROS robot in real life. Day 1 of ROSCon UK @BayesCentre

[Open Robotics @OpenRoboticsOrg]

🇮🇳 ROSCon India is back!

[PRUTHVI GEEDH @pruthvigeedh_]

ROSCon India 2026 is official.

📅 2–4 December 2026
📍 JN Tata Auditorium, IISc Bengaluru

Hosted by @rigbetellabs | Powered by @artparkindia | In association with @OpenRoboticsOrg

What began as a community of ROS developers has grown into one of India's leading platforms for the robotics ecosystem.

It brings together developers, researchers, students, startups and industry leaders.

Huge Congratulations to @PallaviSaha10 and Team to pull this off!

India needs more events for Physical AI!

#ROSConIndia2026 #ROS #ROS2

[Francisco Martín 🇪🇺🇪🇸 @Fmrico]

#Kairos at Unified Planning Framework!! 🚀

@AIPlan4EU #Planning #AI

https://t.co/UbfUcnxRbu

[Open Robotics @OpenRoboticsOrg]

RSVP here:
https://t.co/bY9lN2aIM4

[Open Robotics @OpenRoboticsOrg]

Join us for our monthly #ROS By-The-Bay meetup at the new @IntrinsicAI office this Thursday!

Our guest speakers will be @youtalk, who will discuss swift-ros2, Davis Foster, co-founder of @AgencyToolCo (OTA robot updates), and Jose Diaz, co-founder of Thrust Robotics.

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