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 June 8th, 2026:

🚀ROS Meetup @AutomateShow
🚀ROSCon Global 2026 talk schedule released
🚀New ROSCon Italy this November in Bologna
🚀@opencvlive 5 drops: better, faster, more AI
🚀@NASA Space Robotics Challenge
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[Open Robotics @OpenRoboticsOrg]

🚀 New @FANUCAmerica ROS 2 drivers
🚀 A 2D LIDAR scan merging utility
🚀 Updates for ROS 2 Lyrical Luth
🚀 Better Launch 1.6.0 released
🚀 New features for the @LeggedRobot quadruped
🚀 A whole lot more!

https://t.co/DZiMuUh9Rb

[Open Robotics @OpenRoboticsOrg]

🚀NeoRacer V2 is open hardware
🚀New African Robotics Summit for 2026
🚀@NIST releases new humanoid benchmark
🚀OSHWA Open Hardware Summit Recap
🚀@HelloRobot is ready for people's homes
🚀2026 Robotics Summit and Expo Recap
🚀Gazebo's gets a new rolling release
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[Open Robotics @OpenRoboticsOrg]

Here is your #ROS and open source robotics news for the week of June 8th, 2026:

🚀ROS Meetup @AutomateShow
🚀ROSCon Global 2026 talk schedule released
🚀New ROSCon Italy this November in Bologna
🚀@opencvlive 5 drops: better, faster, more AI
🚀@NASA Space Robotics Challenge
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[Foxglove @foxglove]

Another post @kamathsblog! In this blog, he published a detailed walkthrough on adding autonomous navigation to the @huggingface LeKiwi robot using Nav2 and ROS 2, visualized entirely through Foxglove. LeKiwi is an open-source holonomic platform, and this post covers the full stack from sensor prerequisites to sending navigation goals on a live map.

The implementation includes LiDAR angular filtering with laser_filters to remove a pan-tilt camera obstruction, SLAM-based mapping with slam_toolbox in async mode, and a choice between two localization methods: slam_toolbox's built-in pose graph localization or AMCL with a particle filter. For navigation, Aditya went with an MPPI controller configured for an omnidirectional base and a SMAC 2D planner. He also wrote a small twist_switch_node to toggle cleanly between teleop and Nav2 velocity commands via a controller button — a neat practical touch.

It's a good reference if you're setting up Nav2 on a non-differential drive platform.

Blog post: https://t.co/YMjAP0nrZ4

[ROSCon JP @rosconjp]

#ROSConJP2026 のスポンサー様一覧を更新しました。
たくさんのサポートをありがとうございます！

https://t.co/xU7bJQqHBv

#rosjp #rosconjp #roscon #ros

[Jasmeet Singh @debounSingh]

LED Plugin has been merged upstream in @GazeboSim!🎉
This plugin makes it possible to simulate configurable LED systems in Gazebo. Do give it a try.

[ROSCon JP @rosconjp]

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📢 #ROSConJP2026 プログラム公開！
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2件の基調講演・20件の講演・1件のパネルトークからなる、#ROSConJP2026 のプログラムを公開しました。

ROS三昧の2日間になりそうです！

https://t.co/QbtcPpRGr9

#rosjp #rosconjp #roscon #ros

[Open Robotics @OpenRoboticsOrg]

To learn more about the new Rotary release and its intended usage please visit Open Robotics Discourse.

https://t.co/Ly5R8GNmhR

[Open Robotics @OpenRoboticsOrg]

The @GazeboSim team is happy to announce a new rolling release code-named Gazebo Rotary.

Gazebo Rotary is built nightly from the bleeding edge of our repos and it is intended to be used a tool for core developers.

⚠️Rotary is not intended for production applications.

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[Open Robotics @OpenRoboticsOrg]

Well, would you look at that!

https://t.co/ixpuG2Hiwy

[Jasmeet Singh @debounSingh]

Just shipped @rosorg based devcontainer support for the Artemis Mission Simulator 🌕!

Check it out:
Merged PR: https://t.co/CtsmLwSYFO
Repo: https://t.co/JJcrmZHVXy

The project now supports 2 development workflows:
1️⃣ One-click setup with VSCode's devcontainers.
2️⃣ Manually build and run the docker dev container using the helper scripts.

[Hello Robot @hellorobotinc]

A big thank you to @TechCrunch for featuring Hello Robot and our mission to bring practical robotics into real homes. We're proud to be building technology that helps people maintain independence, dignity, and agency in their daily lives.
🔗https://t.co/Xgj9dlQF5z

[Open Robotics @OpenRoboticsOrg]

Full event details are on our Luma page:

https://t.co/gAclJPIiQL

[Open Robotics @OpenRoboticsOrg]

Are you heading to @AutomateShow in Chicago?

Want to learn more about how #ROS is being used in manufacturing?

Join us and our colleagues at @QNX_News @PickNikRobotics @IntrinsicAI and @ROSIndustrial for annual ROS meetup at Automate on June 23rd!

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[Open Robotics @OpenRoboticsOrg]

@KzhtTkhs These are like gold. 😉

[Tom Dörr @tom_doerr]

Compact open source 3D printable mobile robot

https://t.co/R184qMfT7K

[CNX Software @cnxsoft]

OpenCV 5 open-source computer vision library released
https://t.co/BJDXhQmFje

The main change is the implementation of a new DNN engine with better ONNX coverage to enable a wider range of AI models for detection and segmentation, as well as vision language (VLM) and generative text (LLM) models. It runs on the CPU only for now, but GPU and non-CPU HAL support are being worked on.

Other changes include Core changes for new data types and performance optimization, improved 3D vision support, and revamped documentation.

[b»robotized @brobotized]

We at b»robotized just love Gaussian Splats! That is why we were super thrilled when we read that someone made a plugin for displaying splats in Rviz. So we had to try it right away!
Video: Our #AID4SME project in Isaac Sim & Rviz, both showing the GS of the lab

[ふみふみ @fumifumi_2001]

学生時代、というか学部3年の頃から標準SLAMとCartographerを比較してみようって先輩に言われてたのに、のらりくらりしてしまいもう卒業してしまった今になって気になってしまいSLAM ToolboxとCartographerを比較してみました✋

1つ目の動画がSLAM Toolboxで
2つ目の動画がCartographer

#ROS2 #SLAM

[Decwest @decwxst]

ROSCon Globalに2件採択されました🙌🙌（採択率24%！）
- Dynamic Window Pure Pursuit in Nav2 Regulated Pure Pursuit
DWPP含むNav2 RPP controllerの各手法の特徴を説明します
- ros2log new CLI and rcl_logging_implementation for Lyrical Luth
ROS Japan dev会議で藤田さんと取り組んだ内容です