Aug
11
4:00 PM16:00
ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Aug) - 2026 (Europe)
ROS-Industrial Europe Dev Meeting
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Oct
13
to Oct 15
ROS-Industrial Training (Americas) October 2026
The ROS-Industrial Consortium Americas will be providing a three-day ROS-Industrial Developers Training Class October 13-15, 2026, with an advanced ROS 2 topic to be announced. This event will be on the Southwest Research Institute campus in San Antonio, TX!
We will be delivering this training with the AWS EC2 instance. This class is geared toward individuals with a C++ programming background who seek to learn to compose their own ROS nodes. Previous and the new Set Up, Prerequisites, and Curriculum can be found here, and will be updated shortly.
Registration: Coming Soon!
Cost: The training is FREE for up to:
- Three attendees for Full Consortium member organizations
- Two attendees for Associate Consortium member organizations
- One attendee for Research Consortium member organizations
For non-members, government members, or for seats in excess of your limit, the training is $2,399 per attendee. Space for the training is limited and will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.
Event Location: Southwest Research Institute, 6220 Culebra, San Antonio, TX 78238.
Event Hotel: We have secured a discounted rate at the Courtyard San Antonio SeaWorld®/Westover Hills, 11605 State Highway 151, San Antonio, Texas 78251. Once registered for training, please request the rate code from the ROS-I Americas team and book at the link above.
Welcome Dinner: A Welcome Dinner will be organized and hosted the evening of October 13.
Oct
13
10:00 PM22:00
ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Oct) - 2026 (Americas)
The ROS-Industrial developers meeting is hosted on the second Tuesday of every month. The developers meeting will begin with a technical presentation from the hosting consortium followed by open discussion. Once open discussion has finished, status updates will be provided for consortium maintained repositories by the maintainer. In order to attend you must registrar for each of the respected consortium by following the links below.
Hosting Consortium Schedule
January (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
February (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
March (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
April (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
May (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
June (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
July (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
August (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
September (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
October (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
November (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
December (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
Note: 9:00 AM Central American Time (CT) is 16:00 Central European Time (CET)
For details on registration for the respective regions, please proceed here.
Dec
3
to Dec 4
ROS-Industrial Conference Europe 2026
ROS-Industrial Europe Conference 2026
The 14th edition of the Europe ROS-Industrial Conference will take place in Stuttgart, Germany.
Location: Nobelstrasse 12, 70569 Stuttgart
Dates: 3rd and 4th of december 2026
Information coming soon!
Schedule
3 December 2026
09:00 – 17:00 Conference Program
18:00 – 21:00 Social Dinner
4 December 2026
09:00 – 13:00 Conference Program
13:00 – 16:00 Lab Tour & Company Visit
Previous editions
Conference Europe 2024, Odense, Denmark
Conference Europe 2025, Strasbourg, France
Jul
14
10:00 PM22:00
ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Dec) - 2026 (Asia-Pacific)
The ROS-Industrial developers meeting is hosted on the second Tuesday of every month. The developers meeting will begin with a technical presentation from the hosting consortium followed by open discussion. Once open discussion has finished, status updates will be provided for consortium maintained repositories by the maintainer. In order to attend you must registrar for each of the respected consortium by following the links below.
Hosting Consortium Schedule
January (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
February (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
March (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
April (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
May (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
June (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
July (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
August (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
September (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
October (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
November (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
December (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
Note: 9:00 AM Central American Time (CT) is 16:00 Central European Time (CET)
For details on registration for the respective regions, please proceed here.
Jul
14
10:00 PM22:00
ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Sep) - 2026 (Asia-Pacific)
The ROS-Industrial developers meeting is hosted on the second Tuesday of every month. The developers meeting will begin with a technical presentation from the hosting consortium followed by open discussion. Once open discussion has finished, status updates will be provided for consortium maintained repositories by the maintainer. In order to attend you must registrar for each of the respected consortium by following the links below.
Hosting Consortium Schedule
January (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
February (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
March (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
April (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
May (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
June (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
July (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
August (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
September (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
October (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
November (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
December (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
Note: 9:00 AM Central American Time (CT) is 16:00 Central European Time (CET)
For details on registration for the respective regions, please proceed here.
Jul
14
10:00 PM22:00
ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Jul) - 2026 (Americas)
The ROS-Industrial developers meeting is hosted on the second Tuesday of every month. The developers meeting will begin with a technical presentation from the hosting consortium followed by open discussion. Once open discussion has finished, status updates will be provided for consortium maintained repositories by the maintainer. In order to attend you must registrar for each of the respected consortium by following the links below.
Hosting Consortium Schedule
January (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
February (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
March (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
April (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
May (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
June (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
July (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
August (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
September (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
October (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
November (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
December (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
Note: 9:00 AM Central American Time (CT) is 16:00 Central European Time (CET)
For details on registration for the respective regions, please proceed here.
Jul
14
to Jul 16
CANCELLED: ROS-Industrial Training (Americas) July 2026
NOTE: This event has been cancelled. The next ROS-I Americas training will be October 2026.
The ROS-Industrial Consortium Americas will be providing a three-day ROS-Industrial Developers Training Class July 14-16, 2026, with an advanced ROS 2 topic to be announced soon. This event will be located on the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) campus in San Antonio!
We will be delivering this training with the AWS EC2 instance. This class is geared toward individuals with a C++ programming background who seek to learn to compose their own ROS nodes. Previous and the new Set Up, Prerequisites, and Curriculum can be found here, and will be updated shortly.
Registration: Event cancelled
Cost: The training is FREE for up to:
- Three attendees for Full Consortium member organizations
- Two attendees for Associate Consortium member organizations
- One attendee for Research Consortium member organizations
For non-members, government members, or for seats in excess of your limit, the training is $2,199 per attendee. Space for the training is limited and will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.
Event Location: Southwest Research Institute, 6220 Culebra, San Antonio, TX 78238.
Event Hotel: We have secured a discounted rate at the Courtyard San Antonio SeaWorld®/Westover Hills at
11605 State Highway 151
San Antonio, Texas 78251.
Once registered for training, please request the rate code from the ROS-I Americas team and book at the link above.
Welcome Dinner: A Welcome Dinner will be organized and hosted the evening of July 14.
Jun
30
10:00 PM22:00
ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Jun) - 2026 (Asia-Pacific)
Update: This meeting has been postponed to 30th June 2026.
The ROS-Industrial developers meeting is hosted on the second Tuesday of every month. The developers meeting will begin with a technical presentation from the hosting consortium followed by open discussion. Once open discussion has finished, status updates will be provided for consortium maintained repositories by the maintainer. In order to attend you must registrar for each of the respected consortium by following the links below.
Hosting Consortium Schedule
January (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
February (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
March (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
April (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
May (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
June (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
July (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
August (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
September (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
October (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
November (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
December (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
Note: 9:00 AM Central American Time (CT) is 16:00 Central European Time (CET)
Special Link Provided for this session: here.
Jun
25
8:30 AM08:30
ROS-Industrial Consortium Americas 2026 Annual Meeting
The ROS-Industrial Consortium Americas will host its annual meeting in conjunction with the Automate 2026 show in Chicago. The annual Members' Meeting is a chance to understand the latest developments relative to ROS-Industrial, both within the Americas and around the world. There will be a chance to engage on the strategy for how ROS-I capability is shaped, in particular with the latest developments around ROS 2, and the latest success stories and resources to enable your team to get the most out of ROS 2.
This is always a great opportunity to engage with other interested end-users, OEMs, solution providers and researchers on open source, interoperable, agile software capabilities. The collaborations that emerge through these interactions have led to significant accomplishments, of which you will learn about at this gathering. We look forward to seeing everyone in Chicago!
When: June 25, 2026 (The last full day of Automate 2026)
Location: Co-located with Automate within McCormick Place. Room N427ABC.
Pre-meeting Dinner: A networking dinner will be held the evening of June 24 from 6:00-8:00 PM at 90th Meridian, 231 S LaSalle St #108, Chicago, IL 60604. It's about 2.5 miles from McCormick Place, and dinner is included with your registration.
Host: Jerry Towler, RIC-Americas Program Director
Registration is closed for 2026
Morning Program
| Time | Session | Speaker(s) & Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| 08:15 | Light Breakfast, Check In | |
| 08:45 | Welcome and ROS-I Americas State of the Consortium & Tech Update |
Jerry Towler RIC-Americas Program Director |
| 09:10 | ROS-I European Union – ROS-I and EU Initiatives |
Vishnu Prachandabhanu ROS-I EU Program Manager Fraunhofer IPA |
| 09:35 | ROS-I Asia-Pacific – Scaling Robotics in Manufacturing and What's Next for ROS-I AP |
Chang Tat ROS-I AP Technical Group Manager ARTC |
| 10:00 | Break | |
| 10:20 | What's New in ROS 2: Lyrical, Growth Metrics, Challenges, and Success Stories |
Kat Scott Developer Relations Intrinsic |
| 10:45 | VLAs and VLMs with ROS and MoveIt Pro |
Dave Coleman Founder/Chief Product Officer PickNik |
| 11:10 | FTP Proposal(s) |
Tully Foote Intrinsic (Currently holding space for others to “pitch” collaboration projects) |
| 11:35 | Lunch | |
| Keynote: Automation opportunities in automotive manufacturing and the role of open-source |
Parag Patre Senior Manager for Advance Robotics Magna |
|
Afternoon Program
| Time | Session | Speaker(s) & Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| 12:45 | Workshops (Tentative) | |
|
ROS-I Roadmap Gaps and User Experience Working session based on recent survey of industrial member challenges with ROS 2 |
Matt Robinson | |
|
Documentation Review Pros and cons of latest examples Updated documentation and example pages What is working/what isn’t |
Michael Ripperger | |
|
Collaboration Opportunities Other FTP ideas? Small groups discussing where they would like to work together |
Paul Evans Executive Director Southwest Research Institute |
|
| 14:15 | Summary of Workshop Outputs | |
| 14:30 | Break | |
| 14:45 | Journey and Lessons Learned Building Solutions with ROS 2 |
Makarand Madolkar, Robotics Engineer 2 Nardos Ashenafi, Software Engineer 3 Toyota Automated Logistics |
| 15:10 | Accelerating the development and deployment of Industrial Robotics using ROS and QNX RTOS |
Nikhil Rai Senior Global Product Marketing Manager QNX |
| 15:35 | Break | |
| 15:50 | Robot Raconteur: An Interoperable Middleware for Robotics |
John Wason Owner Wason Technology, LLC |
| 16:15 | Physical AI at the ARM Institute |
Matthew Powelson Robotics & AI Engineer ARM Institute |
| 16:40 | Closing Remarks | |
| 16:50 | Adjourn | |
ROS-Industrial Consortium Members Exhibiting at Automate
Per ROS-I Annual Meeting tradition when co-located at Automate - members exhibiting at Automate will be featured here. The official list for Automate exhibitors may be found here: https://www.automateshow.com/exhibitors
Exhibiting Vendors
| Vendor | Booth |
|---|---|
| 3M | #3113 |
| ABB Robotics LLC | #1241 |
| ARM - Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute | #31060 |
| BlackBerry QNX | #11064 |
| Intrinsic | #825 |
| KEBA Industrial Automation | #833 |
| OMRON Automation | #3080 |
| Ohio State University CDME | #35055 |
| Phoenix Contact USA, Inc | #2250 |
| PickNik Robotics | #3775 |
| PushCorp | #2814 |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | #34054 |
| Southwest Research Institute | #3621 |
| Universal Robots | #1250 | #36051 |
| Yaskawa America, Inc., Motoman Robotics Division | #601 | #34051 |
Jun
23
4:30 PM16:30
ROS Meetup @ Automate Chicago
Meetup happening with Automate and the RIC Americas Annual Meeting in Detroit!
Jun
22
to Jun 25
Automate 2026
The ROS-Industrial Consortium Americas Team will be exhibiting within the Southwest Research Institute exhibit space (Booth #3621). We will have developer team members on hand and be demonstrating an advanced motion planning capability within the space that highlights some of the recent developments within the ROS-Industrial open-source project.
We will highlight other ROS-Industrial Consortium members exhibiting at Automate as well, with that list appearing in the ROS-I Consortium Americas 2026 Annual Meeting event listing.
This week will also include a ROS Meet Up on Tuesday of Automate week.
The week for ROS-I will wrap up with the ROS-I Consortium Americas 2026 Annual Meeting, co-located within McCormick Place.
The full list of exhibitors and links to the above on the Automate Show site may be found: https://www.automateshow.com/exhibitors
May
21
1:00 PM13:00
ROS Meetup in Karlsruhe
On 21th May 2026 the second ROS Meetup will take place at the FZI. It offers space for exchanging current ROS topics and networking in an informal setting. As a networking event, the ROS Meetup offers a platform to present ROS-related work in presentations of around 10 to 20 minutes, exchange ideas, and network with other ROS experts and people interested in ROS.
More Information: https://www.fzi.de/veranstaltungen/second-ros-meetup-in-karlsruhe/
Apr
14
10:00 PM22:00
ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Apr) - 2026 (Americas)
The ROS-Industrial developers meeting is hosted on the second Tuesday of every month. The developers meeting will begin with a technical presentation from the hosting consortium followed by open discussion. Once open discussion has finished, status updates will be provided for consortium maintained repositories by the maintainer. In order to attend you must registrar for each of the respected consortium by following the links below.
Hosting Consortium Schedule
January (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
February (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
March (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
April (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
May (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
June (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
July (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
August (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
September (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
October (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
November (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
December (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
Note: 9:00 AM Central American Time (CT) is 16:00 Central European Time (CET)
For details on registration for the respective regions, please proceed here.
Apr
14
to Apr 16
ROS 2-Industrial Training (Europe)
The ROS-Industrial Consortium Europe will host a three-day ROS-Industrial Developers Training Class from April 14–16, 2026. The program will include basic to intermediate ROS 2 topics, with a special focus on behavior trees and navigation.
This edition will place greater emphasis on hands-on experience using on-site hardware, including mobile robots and manipulators.
Registration: registration link will be open soon
Cost: The training is FREE for up to:
Two attendees for Full Consortium member organizations
One attendees for Associate Consortium member organizations
One attendee for Research Consortium member organizations
For non-members, government members, or for seats in excess of your limit, the training is 2000€ per attendee. Space for the training is limited and will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.
Event Location: Fraunhofer IPA, Nobelstraße 12, Stuttgart
Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have questions: opensourcerobotics@ipa.fraunhofer.de
Mar
23
1:30 PM13:30
ROS-Meetup in Heilbronn
ROS-Meetup in Heilbronn
Location: Bildungscampus 2, Heilbronn
Date: March 23rd
Organized by Neobotix GmbH, TUM Heilbronn, and Fraunhofer IPA
The registration is free but mandatory !
Agenda
12:00 - 12:15 Welcome in the Menso Bildungscampus
12:15 - 13:00 Lunch together at BlidungsCampus Mensa
13:00 - 13:15 Move to the event hall
13:15 - 13:30 Welcome coffee at the TUM Heilbronn location
13:30 - 15:30 Talks -break included-
15:30 - 17:00 Networking
Lunch at the Bildungscampus Heilbronn
Location for demos and talks : Building D: https://nav.tum.de/building/1901
Networking Lunch - 12:00 to 13:00 (Doors open at the venue and pick-up your name tag: 13:00)
Talks:
Intro by Neobotix GmbH
Recent improvements regarding RT control in ros2_control for multiple robots control, Denis Stogl, b-robotized
ROS 2 controllers for the Unitree G1, Vishnuprasad Prachandabhanu and Sanjeev Kumar, Fraunhofer IPA
Manipulation Pipeline: A reusable, MoveIt-based planning component, Robert Wilbrandt, FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik
Towards a Configurable and Reusable RL Training Infrastructure for AMRs in ROS2, Pauline Steffel, PhD Student, Abteilung AImotion
General Purpose Robotics with ROS, Tobias Weyer, TNG Tech
Safe LLM-Controlled Robots with Formal Guarantees via Reachability Analysis, Zhen Zhang
Lab Tours & Robot Demos:
TUM Cyber-Physical Systems: Get an inside look at the research happening in the TUM labs.
Neobotix Robots Live in Action: Experience professional-grade mobile robots running live demos.
b-robotized demonstrators
Car Park: Parking garage Mitte, which is located near the mensa
Mar
10
to Mar 12
ROS-Industrial Training (Americas) March 2026
The ROS-Industrial Consortium Americas will be providing a three-day ROS-Industrial Developers Training Class March 10-12, 2026, with an advanced ROS2 topic on Perception Pipeline and Calibration This event will be on the Southwest Research Institute campus in San Antonio, TX!
We will be delivering this training with the AWS EC2 instance. This class is geared toward individuals with a C++ programming background who seek to learn to compose their own ROS nodes. Previous and the new Set Up, Prerequisites, and Curriculum can be found here, and will be updated shortly.
Registration: Registration closed.
Cost: The training is FREE for up to:
- Three attendees for Full Consortium member organizations
- Two attendees for Associate Consortium member organizations
- One attendee for Research Consortium member organizations
For non-members, government members, or for seats in excess of your limit, the training is $2,399 per attendee. Space for the training is limited and will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.
Event Location: Southwest Research Institute, 6220 Culebra, San Antonio, TX 78238.
Event Hotel: We have secured a discounted rate at the Courtyard San Antonio SeaWorld®/Westover Hills, 11605 State Highway 151, San Antonio, Texas 78251. Once registered for training, please request the rate code from the ROS-I Americas team and book at the link above.
Welcome Dinner: A Welcome Dinner will be organized and hosted the evening of March 10.
Mar
10
9:00 AM09:00
ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Mar) - 2026 (Asia-Pacific)
The ROS-Industrial developers meeting is hosted on the second Tuesday of every month. The developers meeting will begin with a technical presentation from the hosting consortium followed by open discussion. Once open discussion has finished, status updates will be provided for consortium maintained repositories by the maintainer. In order to attend you must registrar for each of the respected consortium by following the links below.
Hosting Consortium Schedule
January (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
February (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
March (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
April (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
May (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
June (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
July (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
August (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
September (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
October (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
November (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
December (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
Note: 9:00 AM Central American Time (CT) is 16:00 Central European Time (CET)
For details on registration for the respective regions, please proceed here.
Feb
19
10:00 AM10:00
Jan
13
to Jan 14
ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Jan) - 2026 (Americas)
The ROS-Industrial developers meeting is hosted on the second Tuesday of every month. The developers meeting will begin with a technical presentation from the hosting consortium followed by open discussion. Once open discussion has finished, status updates will be provided for consortium maintained repositories by the maintainer. In order to attend you must registrar for each of the respected consortium by following the links below.
Hosting Consortium Schedule
January (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
February (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
March (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
April (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
May (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
June (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
July (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
August (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
September (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
October (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
November (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
December (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
Note: 9:00 AM Central American Time (CT) is 16:00 Central European Time (CET)
For details on registration for the respective regions, please proceed here.
Dec
9
8:00 PM20:00
ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Dec) - 2025 (Asia-Pacific)
The ROS-Industrial developers meeting is hosted on the second Tuesday of every month. The developers meeting will begin with a technical presentation from the hosting consortium followed by open discussion. Once open discussion has finished, status updates will be provided for consortium maintained repositories by the maintainer. In order to attend you must registrar for each of the respected consortium by following the links below.
Hosting Consortium Schedule
January (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
February (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
March (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
April (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
May (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
June (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
July (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
August (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
September (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
October (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
November (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
December (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
Note: 9:00 AM Central American Time (CT) is 16:00 Central European Time (CET)
For details on registration for the respective regions, please proceed here.
Dec
2
4:00 PM16:00
ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Dec) - 2025 (Europe)
The ROS-Industrial developers meeting is hosted on the second Tuesday of every month. The developers meeting will begin with a technical presentation from the hosting consortium followed by open discussion. Once open discussion has finished, status updates will be provided for consortium maintained repositories by the maintainer. In order to attend you must registrar for each of the respected consortium by following the links below.
Hosting Consortium Schedule
January (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
February (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
March (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
April (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
May (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
June (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
July (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
August (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
September (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
October (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
November (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time) => postponed to 02.12.2025
December (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
Note: 9:00 AM Central American Time (CT) is 16:00 Central European Time (CET)
For details on registration for the respective regions, please proceed here.
Nov
20
6:00 PM18:00
ROSCon FR&DE 2025
Save the Date for ROSCon FR&DE 2025.
ROSCon FR&DE 2025 is scheduled for November 17h through the 20th in Strasbourg.
For any consortium members interested to submit talk/workshop proposals and find out more information, please visit the official conference website in the link below.
Nov
17
to Nov 18
ROS-Industrial Conference Europe 2025
ROS-Industrial Europe Conference 2025
The 13th edition of the Europe ROS-Industrial Conference will take place in Strasbourg, France, during the ROSCon FR&DE.
Location: CCI Campus Alsace - Site de Strasbourg
234 Av. de Colmar, 67021 Strasbourg
Dates: 17th to 18th November 2025
This year’s conference will focus on advancements, challenges, and success stories in industrial robotics, with a strong emphasis on real-world applications of ROS in manufacturing and AI.
Monday, 17 November 2025
08:00 – 08:30
Welcome and coffee
08:30 – 08:45
Conference Introduction — Fraunhofer IPA
08:45 – 09:15
Robotics Market (IFR World Robotics)
Werner Kraus, Fraunhofer IPA
(presentation | video)
09:15 – 09:45
Maintaining ROS Support – A Glimpse into a Vendor’s Perspective
Felix Exner, Universal Robots A/S
(presentation | video)
09:45 – 10:15
kuka_rsi_driver: Techniques for Robust, Real-Time Control of Industrial Robots
Robert Wilbrandt, FZI Research Center
(presentation | video)
10:15 – 10:30
Break
10:30 – 11:00
ROS 2 in the Industrial Sector: From Fruit Harvesting to Autonomous Mobile Robots
Alexander Mühlens, Igus GmbH
(presentation | video)
11:00 – 11:30
Yaskawa Driver and Applications
Adolfo Suarez Roos, IRT Jules Verne
(presentation | video)
11:30 – 12:00
Intrinsic Intelligence with ROS: A Practical Approach to Integrating ROS into the Intrinsic Platform
Lukasz Pietrasik, Intrinsic
(presentation | video)
12:00 – 13:30
Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:00
Making Humanoid Robots Safe – Advances in Humanoid Robot Safety
Florian Weißhardt, Synapticon GmbH
(presentation | video)
14:00 – 14:30
ReMoRA — Resilient Modular Robotic Application Framework
Ruichao Wu, Fraunhofer IPA
(presentation | video)
14:30 – 15:00
What Industrial Automation Needs from ROS
Florian Gramß, Siemens AG
(presentation | video)
15:00 – 15:30
Break & Discussions
15:30 – 16:00
Rich Descriptive Models for Reusable ROS Software Components
Riddhesh Pradeep More, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences
(presentation | video)
16:00 – 16:30
ROBBIN (Robotic Bin Picking) & Scan-Plan-Pro (Automatic Post-Processing) Applied Research Projects Using ROS 2
Dennis Borger, Saxion University
(presentation | video)
16:30 – 17:00
ROS 2 Going Industrial: b-robotized’s Contributions for Using ROS 2 in Industry
Denis Stogl & Nikola Banović, b-robotized GmbH
(presentation | video)
18:00
Gala Dinner / Social Event
Tuesday, 18 November 2025
09:00 – 09:30
ROS-Industrial Consortium Europe Updates
Vishnuprasad Prachandabhanu & Yasmine Makkaoui, Fraunhofer IPA
(presentation | video)
09:30 – 10:00
ROS-Industrial Consortium Asia-Pacific Updates
Maria Vergo & Glenn Tan, A*STAR, ARTC
(presentation | video)
10:00 – 10:30
Break
10:30 – 11:00
Empowering Industrial Robotics: Insights and Advances from ROS-Industrial Americas
Paul Evans, Southwest Research Institute
(presentation | video)
11:00 – 11:30
Feedback on the Creation of a Navigation Stack for Railway Maintenance Robots (nav4rail)
Louis-Romain Joly, SNCF
(presentation | video)
11:30 – 12:00
Faster, Better, ROS-er: Advancing Mobile Manipulation with MoveIt Pro
Mario Prats, PickNik Robotics
(presentation | video)
12:00 – 13:30
Lunch Break
13:30 – 17:00
Company Visit: ENGLAB (Strasbourg)
Guided Tour: Englab
Tuesday afternoon from 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m
1:45 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.: Welcome coffee while everyone arrives on site.
2:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.: Presentation of ENGLAB's activities by the director
2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.: Three 30-minute sessions (divided into two or three groups depending on the number of people)
Session 1: Presentation of indoor mobile robotics activities - industrial applications
ARIO mobile robot under ROS
Demo with the robot
Questions and answers
Session 2: Presentation of all-terrain mobile robotics activities - AgTech, Defence, Mining applications, etc.
KIPP mobile robot under ROS
Demo with the robot
Questions and answers
Session 3: Presentation of activities on the production line: industry of the future (Robotics & SImulations)
Digital Assist workstation demo
Spark Inspection workstation demo
Questions and answers
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.: Discussion over coffee and pastries
Pricing:
ROS-I Europe Full Member: 2 free seats
ROS-I Europe Associate and Research Member: 1 free seat
Additional Member Ticket: 400€
Non-member Ticket: 500€
Student Ticket: 300€
Gala Dinner: 75€
Link to the event page on the Fraunhofer IPA website:
Oct
31
10:30 AM10:30
ROS-Meetup
Save the Date for the ROS-Meetup at Google Developers Space !
When: Friday, October 31, 2025
Location: Google Developers Space, Singapore
Registration: Registration is now Open! https://tinyurl.com/yn6tc8ys
Join us for the Singapore ROS Community Hackathon!
This is a unique opportunity to learn how to contribute to open-source ROS projects directly from core ROS/ROS 2 Maintainers. You'll get to meet these experts, receive problem statements from them, and work on high-priority tasks, especially those critical to industrial robotics.
Whether you're a student or a professional developer, this event is designed to accelerate your open-source journey and connect you with the global ROS community. Expect dedicated coding sessions, direct mentorship, and get your hands dirty!
Oct
30
9:00 AM09:00
ROS-Industrial Consortium Asia Pacific Summit 2025
The ROS-Industrial Consortium Asia Pacific 2025 will host its annual summit in conjunction with ROSCon 2025 and SWITCH in Singapore.
The annual summit is an opportunity to come together with the community and engage in conversations to bring robotics through the next stage through the community. This year, it is a special year as we would be co-located with two major robotics event
- ROSCon 2025 - a flagship event by the Open Source Robotics Foundation. Details of the event: https://roscon.ros.org/2025/
- Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology (SWITCH)- a 20,000 crowd of innovators, enterpreneurs and people who just love technology https://www.switchsg.org/
RIC-AP Annual Summit 2025 will be co-located at the Beyond Stage @ SWITCH - more details to come
When: Oct 30, 2025 (The day after ROSCon 2025 and Day 2 of SWITCH)
Location: Beyond Stage
Registration: Registration for the ROS-Industrial Consortium Asia Pacific Annual Summit @ SWITCH Beyond is now Open!
Kindly note that the registration is subjected to a confirmation email, and that this is a paid event for non ROS-I members.
We look forward to having everyone in Sunny Singapore!
For ROS-Industrial Members, please contact us at ros-i_asia@artc.a-star.edu.sg to receive the promo code to register using your membership benefits.
Agenda
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 0900 -0915 | Welcome & Opening Remarks | Tung Meng Fai (Executive Director - National Robotics Programme) |
| 0920 - 0940 | Keynote Presentation | Vanessa Yamzon Orzi (Chief Executive Officer - Open Robotics) |
| 0945 - 1030 | Global Pulse of ROS-Industrial: Innovations, Insights & Future Directions |
Maria Vergo (Head, Technology Portfolio Management, Tech-Biz Development - A*STAR,ARTC Consortium Manager, ROS-Industrial Consortium Asia Pacific, ARTC) Paul Evans (Executive Director R&D in Intelligent Systems, SwRI) Vishnu Prachandabhanu (Consortium Manager, ROS-Industrial Consortium Europe, Fraunhofer IPA) |
| 1035 - 1135 | Embodied AI Panel Sharing | |
| 1140 - 1220 | Women in Robotics Panel Sharing | Suchitra Narayan [Moderator] (Director, Automation & Energy - SGInnovate) Chan Min Ling (Vice President, Head of Technology Innovation - HMGICS) Vanessa Yamzon Orzi (Chief Executive Officer - Open Robotics) Samantha Su (Director, Digital Transformation - IMDA) Assistant Prof. Malika Meghjani (Assistant Professor - SUTD) |
| 1225 - 1245 | Future of Humanoids: Innovations & Impacts | Prof. Han Boon Siew (Manager, Innovation Sub-Cluster Humanoid & Senior Director (SHARE @NTU) - Schaeffler) |
| 1250 - 1310 | Realizing Autonomous Robots Interoperability Using Robotics Middleware Framework (RMIF) |
Duyhinh Nguyen (General Manager - Panasonic Asia Pacific Pte Ltd) |
| 1315 - 1335 | Developing a World-Class ROS Talent Pipeline | Priscilla Looi (Assistant Director, People (Learning and Alumni Engagement - SGInnovate) Sheila Suppiah (Assistant Manager, Tech-Biz Development - A*STAR, ARTC) |
| 1335 - 1400 | Beyond Lunch | |
| 1400 - 1800 | Site Visits |
Oct
27
to Oct 29
ROSCon 2025
📅Save the date for ROSCon 2025!
ROSCon 2025 is scheduled for October 27th through the 29th in the Republic of Singapore, organised by Open Robotics.
For any consortium members interested to submit talk/workshop proposals and find out more information, please visit the official conference website in the link below.
Oct
14
to Oct 16
ROS-Industrial Training (Americas) October 2025
The ROS-Industrial Consortium Americas will be providing a three-day ROS-Industrial Developers Training Class October 14-17, 2025, with an advanced ROS 2 topic to be announced. This event will be on the Southwest Research Institute campus in San Antonio, TX!
We will be delivering this training with the AWS EC2 instance. This class is geared toward individuals with a C++ programming background who seek to learn to compose their own ROS nodes. Previous and the new Set Up, Prerequisites, and Curriculum can be found here, and will be updated shortly.
Registration: Register Here!
Cost: The training is FREE for up to:
- Three attendees for Full Consortium member organizations
- Two attendees for Associate Consortium member organizations
- One attendee for Research Consortium member organizations
For non-members, government members, or for seats in excess of your limit, the training is $2,399 per attendee. Space for the training is limited and will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.
Event Location: Southwest Research Institute, 6220 Culebra, San Antonio, TX 78238.
Event Hotel: We have secured a discounted rate at the Courtyard San Antonio SeaWorld®/Westover Hills, 11605 State Highway 151, San Antonio, Texas 78251. Once registered for training, please request the rate code from the ROS-I Americas team and book at the link above.
Welcome Dinner: A Welcome Dinner will be organized and hosted the evening of October 14.
Oct
14
9:00 AM09:00
ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Oct) - 2025 (Americas)
The ROS-Industrial developers meeting is hosted on the second Tuesday of every month. The developers meeting will begin with a technical presentation from the hosting consortium followed by open discussion. Once open discussion has finished, status updates will be provided for consortium maintained repositories by the maintainer. In order to attend you must registrar for each of the respected consortium by following the links below.
Hosting Consortium Schedule
January (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
February (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
March (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
April (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
May (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
June (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
July (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
August (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
September (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
October (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
November (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
December (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
Note: 9:00 AM Central American Time (CT) is 16:00 Central European Time (CET)
For details on registration for the respective regions, please proceed here.
Sep
11
9:30 AM09:30
Tesseract Monthly Check-In
The intent is to provide a forum for those investigating or using Tesseract to interact, ask questions and share what they are working on relative to leveraging Tesseract in their work.
Furthermore, requesting features, and engaging in the Tesseract development roadmap will be available as well.
This is an open forum and we look forward to community participation!
Sep
9
8:00 PM20:00
ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Sep) - 2025 (Asia-Pacific)
The ROS-Industrial developers meeting is hosted on the second Tuesday of every month. The developers meeting will begin with a technical presentation from the hosting consortium followed by open discussion. Once open discussion has finished, status updates will be provided for consortium maintained repositories by the maintainer. In order to attend you must registrar for each of the respected consortium by following the links below.
Hosting Consortium Schedule
January (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
February (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
March (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
April (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
May (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
June (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
July (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
August (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
September (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
October (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
November (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
December (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
Note: 9:00 AM Central American Time (CT) is 16:00 Central European Time (CET)
For details on registration for the respective regions, please proceed here.
Aug
14
9:30 AM09:30
Tesseract Monthly Check-In
The intent is to provide a forum for those investigating or using Tesseract to interact, ask questions and share what they are working on relative to leveraging Tesseract in their work.
Furthermore, requesting features, and engaging in the Tesseract development roadmap will be available as well.
This is an open forum and we look forward to community participation!
Aug
12
4:00 PM16:00
ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Aug) - 2025 (Europe)
The ROS-Industrial developers meeting is hosted on the second Tuesday of every month. The developers meeting will begin with a technical presentation from the hosting consortium followed by open discussion. Once open discussion has finished, status updates will be provided for consortium maintained repositories by the maintainer. In order to attend you must registrar for each of the respected consortium by following the links below.
Hosting Consortium Schedule
January (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
February (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
March (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
April (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
May (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
June (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
July (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
August (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
September (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
October (Americas – 9:00 AM Central Time)
November (Europe – 9:00 AM Central Time)
December (Asia – 9:00 AM Singapore)
Note: 9:00 AM Central American Time (CT) is 16:00 Central European Time (CET)
For details on registration for the respective regions, please proceed here.
Jul
15
to Jul 17
ROS-Industrial Training (Americas) July 2025
The ROS-Industrial Consortium Americas will be providing a three-day ROS-Industrial Developers Training Class July 15-17, 2025, with an advanced ROS2 topic to be announced soon. This event will be hosted by Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita, KS, in collaboration with NIAR!
We will be delivering this training with the AWS EC2 instance. This class is geared toward individuals with a C++ programming background who seek to learn to compose their own ROS nodes. Previous and the new Set Up, Prerequisites, and Curriculum can be found here, and will be updated shortly.
Registration: Registration Closed
Cost: The training is FREE for up to:
- Three attendees for Full Consortium member organizations
- Two attendees for Associate Consortium member organizations
- One attendee for Research Consortium member organizations
For non-members, government members, or for seats in excess of your limit, the training is $2,199 per attendee. Space for the training is limited and will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.
Event Location: NIAR, 1845 Fairmount St, Wichita, KS 67260.
Event Hotel: Hyatt Place at Wichita State University.
Welcome Dinner: A Welcome Dinner will be organized and hosted the evening of July 15.