ROS-Industrial

🤖 ROS 2 Industrial Training: the day before #ricEU2026 Coming to Stuttgart for the ROS-Industrial Conference Europe? Arrive a day early and get practical with ROS 2 on real robot cells and in simulation. 📅 Wednesday, 2 December 2026 📍 Fraunhofer IPA, Nobelstraße 12, Stuttgart Pick one morning and one afternoon session: Morning (08:30 to 12:30) 🔹 ROS 2 Basics: understand the ROS 2 architecture 🔹 Perception with Manipulators: TF and hand eye calibration Afternoon (13:30 to 17:30) 🔹 Manipulator Planning: plan trajectories and run them in simulation and on real robots 🔹 pitasc: programming for force-controlled (dis)assembly 💶 Free for ROS-I members, €250 per session for everyone else. Seats are limited. The registration link is in the comments 👇 Then join us on 3 and 4 December for the conference itself. #ROS2 #ROSIndustrial #Robotics #IndustrialAutomation #FraunhoferIPA #OpenSource #Manipulation

Heading home today from #ROSCon26 in Toronto, my biggest takeaway is that "industrial" robotics is far broader than I appreciated when I first took this role. This week, I talked to roboticists about applications ranging from apple thinning to nuclear power plants. So help me keep expanding my definition: What does industrial robotics mean to you?

We’re at ROSCon Global in Toronto, Canada! Stop by SwRI’s booth (no. 4) to learn about the ROS-Industrial Consortium and SwRI’s robotics and automation research and development. https://ow.ly/O7Za50ZQKyB

Congratulations to ROS-Industrial member Intrinsic on the release of Intrinsic Core, a set of #OpenSource, ROS-compatible capabilities designed to make it easier and faster to get from prototype to production. I'm looking forward to seeing what our members find to do with this. #ROSCon26

The ROS-Industrial Conference 2026 is coming back to Stuttgart. After three years away, we are hosting the 14th edition of the European ROS-Industrial Conference at Fraunhofer IPA on 3 and 4 December 2026. Topics on the program: 🤖 AI Meets Industry: Where AI is being applied on the shop floor, and where it is still difficult. 🏭 Real-World Case Studies: Practical applications, implementation challenges, and lessons learned from factory environments. 🗺️ The Future of ROS-I: Ongoing developments, new application areas, and the roadmap for the community. 🤝 Networking: Two days of exchange with the ROS-Industrial community, including a social dinner and a lab tour. 📍 Fraunhofer IPA, Nobelstraße 12, 70569 Stuttgart 📅 3 to 4 December 2026 🎟️ Early Bird deadline: 30 September 2026 Event details and registration: https://lnkd.in/eE4vyicU #ROSIndustrial #ROS2 #Robotics #IndustrialAutomation #Manufacturing #OpenSource #AI #FraunhoferIPA #riceu #riceu2026 #goROS

What makes robotics assets genuinely ready to be part of a simulation pipeline? We have a new post on the ROS-Industrial blog about simulation assets for a two-finger gripper that looked great right up until they made contact with an object. At Southwest Research Institute, our team tested several community-maintained Robotiq 2F-85 assets as part of our Physical AI research for high-mix manipulation. They all looked correct and could be made to move, but articulation structure, mimic-joint behavior, asymmetric contact, and reusability exposed important gaps. The broader lesson is that *conversion* is not *fidelity*. A naïve converter can translate what is present, but it cannot reliably invent what is missing. Moving from URDF or SDF to USD is useful, but it is only the beginning of asset authoring and validation. For production robotics, "simulation ready" should be an engineering claim that can be tested against the geometry, kinematics, dynamics, contacts, materials, and control behavior that matter for the task. The article describes what we tested, what failed, and how equipment manufacturers, the ROS community, and simulation workflows could work together more effectively. https://lnkd.in/gcw8w2VJ

🚀 Upcoming ROS-Industrial Developers Meeting: Bridging the Gap Between ROS & the SIMATIC Ecosystem with ROXSIE 🚀 Integrating vision systems, robotic arms, and safety-critical I/O into industrial automation often comes with complex interface challenges. Join us for our next community session to explore how ROXSIE, the SIMATIC Connector for ROS, helps overcome these barriers! 🎤 Speaker: Florian Gramß from Siemens and Philipp Weeger #ROS #ROSIndustrial #Robotics #IndustrialAutomation #OpenSource #SIMATIC

At the 2026 ROS-I Americas Annual Meeting in Chicago, I had the opportunity to share my first impressions and my vision for where we can go next. I'm looking forward to feedback from both the consortium and the community at large: what sounds right, what's misguided, and where should we focus first? Full post here: https://lnkd.in/gACt22ue

Unlocking hardware interoperability with the PLCnext ROS Bridge! For years, bringing the flexibility of the Robot Operating System (ROS) into the rugged, deterministic world of industrial automation has been a challenge. Industrial fieldbuses, safety protocols, and real-time I/O don't always play nice with high-level robotic software frameworks. To enable true hardware interoperability, our member Phoenix Contact has introduced the PLCnext ROS Bridge. By bridging these two distinct environments, developers can now deploy advanced robotic path planning, perception, and AI while leveraging the PLC to maintain the rock-solid, real-time safety control that factory floors demand. 👉 Read the full blog: https://lnkd.in/dSUeHdZ6 #goROS #Robotics #IndustrialAutomation #ROS #PLCnext #SmartManufacturing #PhoenixContact

What a great day of talks and conversation last week at the 2026 ROS-Industrial Americas Annual Meeting. A huge thank you to everyone who joined us in Chicago—our speakers, workshop facilitators, consortium members, and guests. The conversations during the breaks were just as valuable as the presentations themselves. We covered a huge range of topics; here are a few: * The present and future of ROS 2 and Physical AI * Lessons learned from deploying robots in production * Open-source collaboration across the industry * Documentation and developer experience * Interoperability and the next generation of industrial robotics The afternoon workshops were awesome, as always: members from different organizations across the spectrum working together to identify shared challenges and opportunities. That's exactly what ROS-Industrial exists to enable. Thanks to everyone who shared their expertise, asked thoughtful (and sometimes challenging!) questions, and helped make the community stronger. If you couldn't join us this year, we'll be sharing highlights and outcomes over the coming weeks. I hope you'll be part of the conversation. #ROSIndustrial #ROS #OpenSource #Robotics #Manufacturing #Automation #PhysicalAI