Post by Open Robotics

Here is your #ROS and open source robotics news for the week of June 22nd, 2026: 🏓 Sony's ROS 2 ping pong robot beats world champions 🏓 ROSCon France in Paris recap 🏓 A sold out ROS meetup at Automate Show 🏓 Three weeks remain to buy earlybird ROSCon tickets 🏓 Driveline, a slick robot data vizualizer 🏓 Gazebo simulation plugin for robotic paint application 🏓 Agility Robotics goes public via SPAC 🏓 Mantis Robotics slick new cageless robot arms 🏓 Scale models of ROS robots  🏓 A 2D scan merger utility for ROS 2 🏓 Gazebo's new rolling release 🏓 New packages for ROS 2 Lyrical and Jazzy 🏓 ROS-ws a new workspace management tool 🏓 A simple occupancy grid editor and viewer 🏓 REP-158 OpenUSD conventions for sim assets 🏓 A new Solidworks URDF exporter 🏓 A new ROS 2 VSCode plugin 🏓 A new PTZ 3Scanning package for ROS 2 🏓 TF2 comes for Rusgt users 🏓 Free University of Michigan Robotics Department robot courses 🏓 Free ETH Zürich courses on ROS  🏓 A whole lot more! 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gYKCAp9g