We just posted an update for #ROS 2 Lyrical Luth that includes 29 new packages and 265 updated packages.

New packages include:
👩‍🎤 cloudini
👩‍🎤 ehukai
👩‍🎤 fadecandy-msgs
👩‍🎤 mrpt
👩‍🎤 rmf-demos
👩‍🎤 roboplan

Details on Open Robotics Discourse:
discourse.openrobotics.org/t/new-packag...

Here is your #ROS and open source robotics news for this week:

🍁ROSCon Global 2026 News Wrap Up
🍁Next up, regional ROSCons in the UK, Singapore, and Spain
🍁Robotics events at SF Tech Week
🍁NVIDIA releases Issac ROS 5.0
🍁Tier 1 ROS support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Open Robotics is running a new survey to understand the community better. We want to hear from anyone who uses our software, has ever used our software, or even has not used it. 📋️ Complete the survey for a chance to win one of 50 vouchers to the Open Robotics Store! 🏆️

go.openrobotics.org/orsurvey26

The free livestream for day three of #ROSCon Global 2026 is now available on the ROSCon website thanks to the generous support of AMD.

Tune in here:
📺 roscon.ros.org/2026/#livest...

ROSCon Global 2026 in Toronto is a wrap!

We want to thank our attendees, speakers, sponsors, and staff for such a great event!

We look forward to seeing you at ROSCon Global 2027 in Kraków, Poland!

Our board member Sabine Hauert (OBE!) received a $500K award from the #XPRIZE Wildfire competition!

Sabine and her team are working detect and prevent the spread of wildfires. It's (unfortunately) a timely problem and an impressive use of #ROS and #OpenSource.

www.linkedin.com/posts/sabine...

Adding to the growing list of industry announcements at #ROSCon, OSRA member Qualcomm is acquiring Picknik, another OSRA member:

www.therobotreport.com/qualcomm-acq...

Today, OSRA member Intrinsic announced Intrinsic Core, an open source set of capabilities that, combined with ROS, makes developing robotic applications faster and more efficient. We're pleased to see the #OpenSource commitment shown by this valuable new initiative.

osralliance.org/2026/09/intr...