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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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We're thrilled to announce that the #Robotics & Simulation devroom is back at FOSDEM in 2027!
Watch this space for news of the CFP opening.
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Open Robotics retweeted
Conduit 3 sneak peek: your iPhone becomes a #ROS2 robot console. 🤖
→ Drive a robot through its own camera
→ Move a robot arm by moving your phone
In 3.0 every feature unlocks for everyone. Own any in-app purchase before it ships? Conduit Plus is yours forever! #ConduitROS
Open Robotics retweeted
#PlanSys2 now includes a new TUI tool to monitor the execution of a plan's Behavior Trees! 🌳
Thanks to @Juancams98 for this valuable contribution! 🚀
The videos from #ROSon Global are now available on Vimeo! Check out everything you missed and revisit your favorite talks.
vimeo.com/showcase/12459077
#Robotics
Open Robotics retweeted
#PlanSys2 4.0.0 has been released!! 🚀
discourse.openrobotics.org/t…
Want to win free ROS or Gazebo swag? 🎁
Take our annual Open Robotics developer survey! We use your feedback to plan next year's development. 50 lucky participants will win a swag store coupon!
openrobotics.limesurvey.net/…
Open Robotics retweeted
Follow Gemini 4 Argon's report, I implemented their robotics harness.
Gemini did a zero-shot bimanual handover. Now open source 🤖👇
Open Robotics retweeted
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.
trackeverything.github.io
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:
Open Robotics retweeted
🤖📦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: seeedstudio.com/reSpeaker-Fl…
#SeeedStudio #reSpeaker #reSpeakerFlex #MicrophoneArray #XMOS #VoiceAI #SoundAI #EdgeAI #EmbeddedAI #EmbodiedAI #XMOS #Robot #Robotic #VoiceInterface #SmartEarforEmbodiedAI #TheAIHardwarePartner
Open Robotics retweeted
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.
Open Robotics retweeted
🚨 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.
Open Robotics retweeted
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
Open Robotics retweeted
1/7 I'm super excited to share LidarVerse! One model that reconstructs, forecasts and generates LiDAR across sensors, in real time.
📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2610.19201
🌐 Project: research.nvidia.com/labs/sil…
💻 Code: github.com/nv-tlabs/LidarVer…
🤗 Models: huggingface.co/nvidia/lidarv…
Open Robotics retweeted
Cool, looks like the Open Robotics community is having a meeting on October 21st!.
Join us this Wed, Oct 21st, at 7pm PT for our monthly Gazebo Community Meeting.
Our guest speaker will be Jiayi Cai, our Google Summer of Code student who will discuss building scalable multi-robot simulations using #ROS 2 and #Gazebo.
RSVP on Luma:
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