Mar
12
1:30 PM13:30
ROS-Meetup in Heilbronn
Save the Date for the ROS-Meetup in Heilbronn !
More information coming in the next month.
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
09:30 – 10:00
ROS-Industrial Consortium Asia-Pacific Updates
Maria Vergo & Glenn Tan, A*STAR, ARTC
10:00 – 10:30
Break
10:30 – 11:00
Empowering Industrial Robotics: Insights and Advances from ROS-Industrial Americas
Paul Evans, Southwest Research Institute
11:00 – 11:30
Feedback on the Creation of a Navigation Stack for Railway Maintenance Robots (nav4rail)
Louis-Romain Joly, SNCF
11:30 – 12:00
Faster, Better, ROS-er: Advancing Mobile Manipulation with MoveIt Pro
Mario Prats, PickNik Robotics
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.
Jul
10
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!
Jul
8
9:00 AM09:00
ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Jul) - 2025
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.
Jun
16
to Jun 18
ROS-Industrial on-site Training (Europe), June 2025
Discover the latest advancements with Robot Operating System (ROS) Version 2, now optimized for industrial applications. This training program will guide you through the fundamentals of using ROS 2 with mobile robots and demonstrate how to effectively implement Behavior Trees to enhance robot behavior management. Elevate your skills and harness the full potential of ROS 2 in industrial environments!
Location:
Fraunhofer IPA
Nobelstraße 12, 70569 Stuttgart
Content:
- ROS 2 Basics
- ROS 2 Control
- Behaviour Trees
- ROS 2 Navigation
Cost:
- 2 Seats free for Full Member
- 1 Seat free for Associate Member
- 1 Seat free for Research Member
- 2000€ : Extra seats for members or seats for non ROS-Industrial Consortium Members
Jun
12
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!
Jun
10
8:00 PM20:00
ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Jun) - 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.
May
15
8:30 AM08:30
ROS-Industrial Consortium Americas 2025 Annual Meeting
The ROS-Industrial Consortium Americas will host its annual meeting in conjunction with the Automate 2025 show in Detroit. 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 Detroit!
When: May 15, 2025 (The last full day of Automate 2025)
Location: Room 140 DEF within the Huntington Place Conference complex.
Pre-meeting Dinner: A networking dinner will be held at Ottava Via, in Corktown, at 6:30 PM on May 14. Dinner is included and is walking distance from Huntington Place near downtown.
Host: Matt Robinson, RIC-Americas Program Manager
Registration: Registration has closed!
Virtual Attendance Option - Talks Only: Register Here!
Agenda
Morning Program
0815 – Light Breakfast, Check In
0835 – Welcome and ROS-I Americas State of the Consortium, Matt Robinson, RIC-Americas Program Manager, SwRI & Michael Ripperger, RIC-Americas Tech Lead
0910 – ROS-Industrial Consortium Updates from the EU, Yasmine Makkaoui, Scientific Coordinator, Fraunhofer IPA
0935 –Accelerate robotics deployment with a Digital-Twin with a multi-agent AI platform, Maria Vergo, ROS-I AP Program Manager, ARTC
1000 – Break
1020 – Winding down ROS 1, and winding up Kilted Kaiju, Kat Scott, Developer Relations, Intrinsic
1045 – AI in Automotive Assembly with MoveIt Pro and ROS, Dave Grant, CEO and Dave Coleman, Founder of PickNik Robotics
1110 – ARM Institute Technical Update: Key Initiatives in Robotics, AI, and Advanced Manufacturing, Suzy Teele, Chief Strategy Officer, ARM (Advanced Robotics in Manufacturing) Institute
1135 – Lunch
Keynote: Industry Leveraging Local Universities for Technology and Skill Development in ROS, Andrew Roberts, Research and Technology Manager (NDI/DM), Spirit AeroSystems
Afternoon Program
1300 –The Latest in Communication and Interoperability from PushCorp, Max Falcone, VP of Sales Engineering, PushCorp
1325 – The Challenges of Robot and Process Agnostic Methodologies for Convergent Manufacturing Applications, Logan McNeil, Applications Engineer, EWI
1350 – Break
1400 – An Introduction to the FANUC ROS 2 Driver, Eric Lattas, Staff Engineer, Fanuc
1425 – Industry Partners in Intelligent Robotics: The Tec de Monterrey Model for Training the Next Generation of Engineers, Prof. Alberto Munoz, EIC-Tec de Monterrey
1450 – Break
1500 – Rotating Workshops
ROS-I Roadmap and Prioritization – Review/Throw Rocks
Documents and Resources for Improved Leverage – OEM Drivers.
More efficient leverage and use of developed resources
1630 – Summary of Workshop outputs
1645 – Closing Remarks
1700 – Adjourn
Workshop Descriptions:
ROS-Industrial Roadmap and Prioritization Discussion
Moderator: Matt Robinson, ROS-I Consortium Americas Program Manager, SwRI
Review of the recently released ROS-Industrial roadmap and the idea of modules and frameworks as workable components to build applications. What are the challenges in this approach and is the scope appropriate for industry needs where diversity in application and deployment drive inevitable customization? There will be an opportunity to ask questions, mark up and propose different approaches relative to steering the technical development of the ROS-Industrial project.
Documents and Resources for Improved Leverage – OEM Drivers
Moderator: Maria Vergo, ROS-I Consortium Asia-Pacific Program Manager, ARTC
To support and improve the development and deployment of industrial systems in the wild, one challenge has been the lack or slow release of OEM-supported ROS 2 interfaces. In the early years of the ROS-Industrial project a handful of drivers were created and a robotic driver specification was created. This had benefit but also was restrictive to OEMs that were not positioned to immediately align to the specification or had more advanced capabilities that went beyond the specification. This discussion focuses on what resources may help OEMs develop interfaces that align to certain classes where the behavior in an application may be understood, without limiting OEM innovation, or driving a burden to an OEM in aligning to a prescriptive standard, thereby stalling progress.
To More Efficient Leverage and Use of Developed Resources
Moderator: Michael Ripperger, ROS-I Consortium Americas Tech Lead, SwRI
A number of capabilities have been provided across the ROS-Industrial ecosystem, by the regional Consortia or by the community. Some have had moderate success in being utilized by industrial application developers, while others do not seem to gain traction. This discussion seeks to understand the challenges and limitations in use and leverage of ROS-I developed and maintained components and what can be done to improve utilization of these resources.
ROS-Industrial Consortium Members Exhibiting at Automate
ABB - Booth #8614, 2632
ARM - Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute - Booth #8918
Intel RealSense - Booth #8523
KEB America Inc. - Booth #946
KEBA Industrial Automation - Booth #5408
Pepperl+Fuchs - Booth #244
Phoenix Contact USA, Inc - Booth #5232
Pilz Automation Safety - Booth #832
PushCorp - Booth #1032
Schaeffler - Booth #835
Siemens Industry, Inc. - Booth #3232
Southwest Research Institute - Booth #5607
Universal Robots - Booth #4023, #8617
May
13
5:00 PM17:00
ROS Meetup @ Automate
Meetup happening with Automate and the RIC Americas Annual Meeting in Detroit!
May
8
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!
Apr
10
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!
Apr
8
9:00 AM09:00
ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Apr) - 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.
Mar
13
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!
Mar
11
8:00 PM20:00
ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Mar) - 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.
Mar
11
to Mar 13
ROS-Industrial Training (Americas) March 2025
The ROS-Industrial Consortium Americas will be providing a three-day ROS-Industrial Developers Training Class March 11-13, 2025, 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: 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 March 11.
Feb
13
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!
Jan
16
10:00 AM10:00
RIC Americas Member Meeting
This is an online ROS-Industrial Consortium Americas Member Meeting (Virtual Only). We look forward to kicking off 2025 by sharing a number of updates around improvements to ROS-Industrial, ROS-I resources and thoughts around updates to the roadmap. A high level agenda is below:
- Work on the technical vision and roadmap for ROS-Industrial
- Global collaboration and areas of synergy for the ROS-Industrial Project
- Changes to the website and resources around ROS-Industrial
- Upcoming events and workshops for 2025
- Open Forum to provide feedback on what should be considered moving forward.
There have been a number of conversations and feedback collected across all regions through 2024. The goal if this meeting is to share those discoveries and get feedback on how to proceed moving forward.
Registration: Registration is required and may be found here. This meeting will take place on the ROS-I Zoom platform. Looking forward to gathering feedback. A recording of the meeting will be made available on the RIC Americas member portal after the meeting.
Jan
14
9:00 AM09:00
ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Jan) - 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.