ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Dec) - 2025 (Europe)
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.

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ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Dec) - 2025 (Asia-Pacific)
Dec
9
8:00 PM20:00

ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Dec) - 2025 (Asia-Pacific)

  • Advanced Remanufacturing and Technology Centre (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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.

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ROSCon FR&DE 2025
Nov
20
6:00 PM18:00

ROSCon FR&DE 2025

  • CCI Campus Alsace - Site de Strasbourg (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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.

ROSCon FR&DE 2025 official site (FR)
ROSCON FR&DE 2025 OFFICIAL SITE (DE)

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ROS-Industrial Conference Europe 2025
Nov
17
to Nov 18

ROS-Industrial Conference Europe 2025

  • CCI Campus Alsace - Site de Strasbourg (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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:

Event page Fraunhofer

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ROS-Meetup
Oct
31
10:30 AM10:30

ROS-Meetup

  • Google Developers Space, Singapore (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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!

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ROS-Industrial Consortium Asia Pacific Summit 2025
Oct
30
9:00 AM09:00

ROS-Industrial Consortium Asia Pacific Summit 2025

  • Marina Bay Sands (MBS) Singapore (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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

  1. ROSCon 2025 - a flagship event by the Open Source Robotics Foundation. Details of the event: https://roscon.ros.org/2025/
  2. 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.

Register Now

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
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ROSCon 2025
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.

Link to ROSCon official site
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ROS-Industrial Training (Americas) October 2025
Oct
14
to Oct 16

ROS-Industrial Training (Americas) October 2025

  • Southwest Research Institute - San Antonio, TX (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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.

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ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Oct) - 2025 (Americas)
Oct
14
9:00 AM09:00

ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Oct) - 2025 (Americas)

  • Southwest Research Institute - San Antonio, TX (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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.

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Tesseract Monthly Check-In
Sep
11
9:30 AM09:30
ROS-I Developer

Tesseract Monthly Check-In

  • Southwest Research Institute (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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!

Registration is Required!

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ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Sep) - 2025 (Asia-Pacific)
Sep
9
8:00 PM20:00

ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Sep) - 2025 (Asia-Pacific)

  • Advanced Remanufacturing and Technology Centre (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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.

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Tesseract Monthly Check-In
Aug
14
9:30 AM09:30
ROS-I Developer

Tesseract Monthly Check-In

  • Southwest Research Institute (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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!

Registration is Required!

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ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Aug) - 2025 (Europe)
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.

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ROS-Industrial Training (Americas) July 2025
Jul
15
to Jul 17

ROS-Industrial Training (Americas) July 2025

  • National Institute for Aviation Research (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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.

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Tesseract Monthly Check-In
Jul
10
9:30 AM09:30
ROS-I Developer

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!

Registration is Required!

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ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Jul) - 2025
Jul
8
9:00 AM09:00

ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Jul) - 2025

  • Southwest Research Institute - San Antonio, TX (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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.

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ROS-Industrial on-site Training (Europe), June 2025
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
Learn more
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Tesseract Monthly Check-In
Jun
12
9:30 AM09:30
ROS-I Developer

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!

Registration is Required!

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ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Jun) - 2025 (Asia-Pacific)
Jun
10
8:00 PM20:00

ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Jun) - 2025 (Asia-Pacific)

  • Advanced Remanufacturing and Technology Centre (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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.

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ROS-Industrial Consortium Americas 2025 Annual Meeting
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

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Tesseract Monthly Check-In
May
8
9:30 AM09:30
ROS-I Developer

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!

Registration is Required!

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Tesseract Monthly Check-In
Apr
10
9:30 AM09:30
ROS-I Developer

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!

Registration is Required!

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ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Apr) - 2025 (Americas)
Apr
8
9:00 AM09:00

ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Apr) - 2025 (Americas)

  • Southwest Research Institute - San Antonio, TX (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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.

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Tesseract Monthly Check-In
Mar
13
9:30 AM09:30
ROS-I Developer

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!

Registration is Required!

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ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Mar) - 2025 (Asia-Pacific)
Mar
11
8:00 PM20:00

ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Mar) - 2025 (Asia-Pacific)

  • Advanced Remanufacturing and Technology Centre (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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.

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ROS-Industrial Training (Americas) March 2025
Mar
11
to Mar 13

ROS-Industrial Training (Americas) March 2025

  • Southwest Research Institute - San Antonio, TX (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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.

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Tesseract Monthly Check-In
Feb
13
9:30 AM09:30
ROS-I Developer

Tesseract Monthly Check-In

  • Southwest Research Institute (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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!

Registration is Required!

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RIC Americas Member Meeting
Jan
16
10:00 AM10:00

RIC Americas Member Meeting

  • Southwest Research Institute (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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.

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ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Jan) - 2025 (Americas)
Jan
14
9:00 AM09:00

ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Jan) - 2025 (Americas)

  • Southwest Research Institute - San Antonio, TX (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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.

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Tesseract Monthly Check-In
Jan
9
9:30 AM09:30
ROS-I Developer

Tesseract Monthly Check-In

  • Southwest Research Institute (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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!

Registration is Required!

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ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Dec) - 2024 (Asia-Pacific)
Dec
10
8:00 PM20:00

ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting (Dec) - 2024 (Asia-Pacific)

  • Advanced Remanufacturing and Technology Centre (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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.

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