We've decided to retire the ROS New blog here. We now have a better way of getting the news from the ROS community via ROS Discourse. We recommend the General Channel you can browse it directly. You can also create an account and subscribe to General or many of the other categories. If you've been accessing this site via rss Discourse provides an rss feed as well You may also be interested in the feed from planet.ros.org which includes this as well as content from other ROS sources ..read more

From Open Robotics Do you want to spend the summer coding on Gazebo or ROS? Open Robotics has been accepted for GSoC and we are looking for talented students who want to participate as remote interns. Accepted students will participate in real-world software development, contributing to open source robotics projects and engaging with the global robotics community, all while getting paid. Check out our GSoC site and don't forget to visit our ideas page, which lists projects that we're interested in. Feel free to ask questions and propose suggestions at gsoc@openrobotics.org. The student app ..read more

We're now soliciting sponsors for ROSCon 2019 in Macau! Please check the prospectus to learn about this year's benefit packages. If you're interested in sponsoring or have any questions about the sponsor program, contact the organizing committee. We hope to see you at ROSCon 2019! -- Your friendly neighborhood ROSCon 2019 Organizing Committee ..read more

We're happy to announce the ROS 2 release Crystal Clemmys! Check out our installation instructions and tutorials and give it a try! We're excited to hear your feedback and the applications that this release will enable! Our ROS 2 distros, they grow up so fast. With the release of Crystal Clemmys we also bid farewell to Ardent Apalone which will retire with 191 packages, and Crystal is debuting with almost 300 (297 to be precise)! To get an idea of what's in this release, be sure to read the Crystal release page. A few features and improvements we would like to highlight in this release ..read more

Looking foward to ROSCon 2018 we're highlighting presentations from last year. Justin presents a new approach to building web interfaces for ROS applications. Video Abstract This talk will introduce a set of web components, built on top of Robot Web Tools, that make it easy to build complex, ROS-integrated web applications without writing much code. Using the Polymer library with these components helps to make applications that are accessible and mobile-friendly. We will show how to use these components and show some common web programming patterns. Additionally, we will showcase some co ..read more

The first officially licensed local ROSCon event, ROSCon JP 2018, was held in Tokyo, Japan on the 14th of September. ROSCon JP 2018 was held in conjunction with the Open Source Robotics Foundation. 189 people participated on the day (excluding sponsors' invitations and staff). The livestream had a steady 60 to 70 people watching at any one time throughout the day. Thanks to all the participants, ROSCon JP was an exciting day for all. Presentation slides and videos will be published on the website in a few weeks. The invited talks from Brian Gerkey (Open Robotics) and Nicholas Yeo (ROS-Indu ..read more

Looking foward to ROSCon 2018 we're highlighting presentations from last year. Chris presents a new approach for integrating ROS using Node.js as an alternative to the rosbridge suite. Video Abstract For years, the RosBridge suite (and it's corresponding javascript library roslibjs) have been the most practical way to integrate ROS and javascript. While this combination works fairly well in light-weight applications or as a prototype solution for pumping ROS topics into a web page, it starts to break down as the demands on the system increase. With the rise in popularity of backend javas ..read more

Looking foward to ROSCon 2018 we're highlighting presentations from last year. Michael presents on how to bring ROS into safety critical systems. Video Abstract This presentation gives an overview about our "Kontrol" development environment for safety critical controllers using ROS and Gazebo. We first analyze existing standards for safety critical controllers for different applications and present the results of an extensive industry survey which concludes that 70-80% of the development costs are spent during the serial development phase. To overcome this burden, we present our approach ..read more

Looking foward to ROSCon 2018 we're highlighting presentations from last year. Ingo presented how determinism can effect a robotic system. The talk provides an overview of causes of non-determinism. Followed by specific examples of diagnosing determinism in a robotic system and the benefits of eliminating the sources of non-determinism. Video Abstract ROS's foundational style, the asynchronous, loosely coupled compute graph, is great for re-use and distribution, but there's a catch: Nothing guarantees execution ordering. This means, the order in which callbacks and timers are executed ca ..read more

Looking foward to ROSCon 2018 we're highlighting presentations from last year. Martin and Sergio present an overview of TRADR as well as ROS packages and tools they've developed in the course of the project. Most of the tools have been released as open source packages. And at the end they present some real world use cases where their robots were helpful. Video Abstract Search and Rescue Robotics is an extremely challenging and broad area of robotics that has recently been experiencing enormous progress. In the last 3 years, the EU project TRADR investigated many aspects of the aforementi ..read more