One Attendees Observations from ROSCon 2025

ROSCon 2025 took place from October 27–29 in Singapore, drawing approximately 1,000 attendees from 52 countries. It was followed by the ROS-I Asia-Pacific Annual Summit on October 30, which featured speakers, panels, lab tours, and a networking dinner with about 150 participants. This year’s ROSCon showcased an array of sessions, workshops, and discussions designed to share advancements and inspire innovation in the ROS ecosystem.

The event kicked off with Day 0 workshops, showcasing highlights such as Picknik's MoveIt Pro performance demonstrations, ROS-Industrial's Scan-N-Plan approach, and a session on deploying ros2_control on ESP32 microcontrollers, alongside an engaging underwater robotics workshop. The main conference centered on emerging robotics trends, including AI integration with ROS, advanced motion planning, and the use of physics simulators like Mujoco. Key discussions covered multi-fleet coordination with OpenRMF, improved ROS workflows, Rust-based development with the feature-complete rclrs, and identified challenges like scaling AI with multi-modal sensors and improving policy execution pipelines.

Attendees left with actionable insights, including the importance of building familiarity with RMW Zenoh, exploring AI-driven solutions like imitation and reinforcement learning, and optimizing ROS2’s capabilities for industrial robotics applications. The conference concluded with significant community enthusiasm and a look ahead to ROSCon 2026, which will take place in Toronto. While participants were encouraged to engage and share their work, in particular submitting abstracts for talks for ROSCon 2026, there is opportunity for industry to engage and drive improvement and awareness for what makes a sustainable ROS 2 leverage possible on shop floors.

Stay tuned and we look forward to hearing more around industry needs and opportunities for industrial leverage of ROS 2.