Robot Operating System Research Meetup

The Robot Operating System Research Meetup (ROS Meetup 2026) is a community-driven gathering focused on ROS and ROS 2—the open-source middleware that has become the de facto standard for robotics software development worldwide. The meetup bridges academic robotics research and open-source engineering practice, enabling researchers and developers to share tools, packages, benchmarks, and best practices.

Robotics researchers, software engineers, graduate students, and hobbyists working with ROS attend to discuss navigation stacks, perception pipelines, hardware abstraction, simulation environments such as Gazaebo, and the challenges of deploying ROS-based systems in real-world settings. The meetup format encourages informal collaboration and tool-sharing in addition to formal presentations, making it especially valuable for developers who want to contribute to or leverage the broader ROS ecosystem rather than work in isolation.