ROSCon 2025
Republic of Singapore
October 27th - 29th, 2025
ROSCon 2025 will be held in Singapore on October 27th - October 29th, 2025. ROSCon 2025 is a chance for ROS developers of all levels, beginner to expert, to spend an extraordinary three days learning from and networking with the ROS community. Get tips and tricks from experts and meet and share ideas with fellow developers.
ROSCon is a developers’ conference, in the model of PyCon and BoostCon. Following the success of our past events, this year’s ROSCon will be our fourteenth ROSCon and held in Singapore. Similar to previous years, the three-day program will comprise a mixture of workshops, technical talks, and tutorials that will introduce you to new tools and libraries, as well as teach you more about the ones you already know. The bulk of the program will be presentations, along with panel discussions, lightning talks, demonstrations, and workshops.
We aim for ROSCon to represent the entire ROS community, which is global and diverse. Whoever you are, whatever you do, and wherever you do it, if you’re interested in ROS, then we want you to join us at ROSCon. We encourage women, members of minority groups, and members of other under-represented groups to attend ROSCon. We expect all attendees to follow our code of conduct.
If you have questions, concerns, or ideas for ROSCon 2025, please contact the executive committee.
We also welcome suggestions for what else we can do to encourage more participation. Contact us if you have ideas that you’d like to share.
Dates
ROSCon 2025 Key Dates
Call for Proposals circulated
March 24th, 2025
Diversity Scholarship application deadline
April 18th, 2025
Workshop submission deadline
May 5th, 2025
Proposal submission deadline
June 2nd, 2025
Ticket Sales Begin
June 16th, 2025
Proposal acceptance notification
July 14th, 2025
Early registration deadline
August 17th, 2025
Late registration starts
September 29th, 2025
Sponsors
Sponsor ROSCon 2025!
We are now accepting sponsorships for ROSCon 2025! Full details regarding our 2025 sponsorship benefits are listed in our sponsorship prospectus. We recommend that you claim your spot as soon as possible, booth space and sponsorship add-ons for ROSCon are limited.
Whether you’re ready to commit to a specific level or have a question or special request regarding the sponsorship program, please contact the ROSCon executive committee (roscon-2025-ec@openrobotics.org).
ROSCon 2025 Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
Silver Sponsors
Bronze Sponsors
Startup Alley Sponsors
Live Stream and Video Archive Sponsor
Refreshment Sponsors
Lunch Sponsor
Diversity Scholarship Sponsors
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ROSCon Registration
Space at ROSCon is limited, and registration is on a first-come, first-serve basis, We recommend you register as soon as possible as ROSCon registration often sells out a few weeks before the event. Workshop seating is limited, and popular workshops sell out quickly. Discounted registration fees are available for early registration and students (see the table).
ROSCon Registration Rates
| Ticket Type | Price (USD) | Available Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Early Student | $250 | Until 2025-08-17 |
| Early General | $550 | Until 2025-08-17 |
| Regular Student | $350 | 2025-08-18 to 2025-09-28 |
| Regular General | $700 | 2025-08-28 to 2025-09-28 |
| Late Student | $500 | After 2025-09-29 |
| Late General | $1000 | After 2025-09-29 |
| Workshops - Student | $50 + Conference Registration | Until 2025-10-27 (while supplies last) |
| Workshops - Non-Student | $100-$150 + Conference Registration | Until 2025-10-27 (while supplies last) |
Event Location
ROSCon 2025 will be held at the Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre at 1 Raffles Blvd, Singapore 039593.
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Travel Information
Changi Internatiohnal Airport (SIN) is the main airport. The airport is 17km from the Suntec Convention Center.
Transportation from Changi International Airport:
- MRT (Mass Rapid Transport)
- Time: 45 minutes
- Cost: SGD 2
- Primary Route
- Take the East West Line (EWL) from Changi Airport MRT Station (CG2) to Tanah Merah (EW4).
- Transfer to another train on the East West Line (EWL) towards City Hall (EW13/NS25).
- At City Hall MRT, walk ~8 minutes through CityLink Mall to Suntec Convention Center.
- 💡 Alternative MRT Route:
- Take the Downtown Line (DTL) at Expo MRT (CG1/DT35) (1 stop from Changi).
- Travel to Promenade MRT (DT15/CC4).
- Walk ~5 minutes to Suntec.
- Taxi or Private Car
- Ride sharing apps in Singapore include ComfortDelGro, Grab, Gojek, Ryde and TADA
- Time: 15-20 minutes
- Cost: SGD 20-30
- Airport Shuttle
- You can book an airport shuttle at the Ground Transport Concierge in any terminal. It drops passengers at major hotels, including those near Suntec.
- Time: ~30-40 minutes
- Cost: ~SGD 10 per person
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Program
ROSCon Schedule
ROSCon Workshops
Monday, October 27th, 2025
ROSCon workshops are available for an additional fee when you register for ROSCon 2025.
Space is limited, and workshops often sell out, so make sure to register early!
| Room | Time | Workshop |
|---|---|---|
| TBD | Half Day Morning 8am-12pm |
ros2_control: Fun With Robot Drivers
Dr. Denis Stogl -- b»robotized by Stogl Robotics Bence Magyar -- Locus Robotics ros2_control is a hardware-agnostic control framework for abstracting hardware and low-level control for 3rd party solutions like MoveIt2 and Nav2 systems. This workshop provides a practical deep dive into writing robot drivers with ros2_control. This hardware abstraction layer is critical to handling data transmission, hardware lifecycle, and possible errors in every application. You will be introduced to hands-on integration of an embedded board that implements a differential drive robot. Additionally, we'll demonstrate examples from different domains and best practices for using ros2_control for ease of use, increased flexibility and robustness. ⓘ More Information |
| TBD | Half Day Morning 8am-12pm |
Scalable Multi-Robot Scene workflows using ROS Simulation Interfaces standard in Isaac Sim
Ayush Ghosh -- NVIDIA Raffaello Bonghi -- NVIDIA The new ROS Simulation Interfaces standard (developed in collaboration with O3DE, NVIDIA Isaac Sim, and Gazebo) provides a unified approach to interacting with simulation environments, regardless of the engine used. This workshop highlights the practical implementation of Simulation Interfaces within NVIDIA Isaac Sim and will showcase how this standard facilitates multi robot scene generation, deployment and environmental manipulation, in a reproducible manner suited for automated testing. Isaac Sim’s support offers photorealistic simulation and is GPU-accelerated. By harnessing the capabilities of the new Simulation Interfaces standard, researchers and developers in perception, navigation, and manipulation can benefit by quickly building workflows, switching between simulators, or using multiple simulators in parallel. ⓘ More Information |
| TBD | Full Day TBD |
Hands-On Aerial Robotics Using PX4 and ROS 2
Ramon Roche -- Dronecode Foundation Patrik Pordi -- ARK Electronics Beniamino Pozzan -- PX4 Autopilot Picture yourself in Gazebo, sending velocity, position, and acceleration commands straight from your ROS 2 nodes while PX4 quietly manages real-time flight control and built-in safety. Over the course of a full-day, hands-on workshop, you'll see why PX4 powers so many high-reliability robotics projects, learn to hook your existing ROS 2 setup into our plug-and-play bridge, and stream live telemetry back to your code. You'll explore perception integrations, think ArUco markers and LiDAR, build high-level control routines in ROS, and leave with working simulation environments, example projects, and a clear path to swap out virtual drones for real hardware. No PX4 background is needed, just your ROS expertise, a laptop, and a spirit of discovery. Everything in this workshop is fully open source and open for you to inspect, modify, and share. ⓘ More Information |
| TBD | Half Day Afternoon 1pm-5pm |
ROS 2 Networking Redefined: Deep Dive into RMW Zenoh
Julien Enoch -- ZettaScale Technology Alejandro Hernández Cordero -- Honu Robotics Yadunund Vijay -- Intrinsic RMW Zenoh has been launched as a Tier 1 solution across all supported ROS 2 distributions, offering an alternative to DDS middlewares. Its deployment and setup differ somewhat from DDS-based RMWs. In this workshop, we will explore these differences and provide comprehensive insights into configuring RMW Zenoh for various scenarios, including intra-robot and extra-robot communications, constrained networks such as WiFi or 4G/5G, Internet connectivity, and leveraging SROS for security measures such as authentication and access control. Participants will gain hands-on experience and leave with a robust understanding of how to implement and optimize RMW Zenoh in their ROS 2 projects. All you need to attend is a laptop with Docker and Visual Studio Code. ⓘ More Information |
| TBD | Half Day Morning 1pm-5pm |
ROS 2 & micro-ROS Dive In: Low-Cost Underwater Robotics
Abu Bakr Azam, Mohammad Aasim Khan, Nguyen Trung Kien -- Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Underwater robotics remains a specialized niche with high costs obstructing broader adoption. Leveraging ROS 2 for sensing and micro-ROS on an ESP32 MCU for real-time actuation, this workshop guides participants in building a cost-effective, closed-loop AUV control framework. Attendees will flash prebuilt micro-ROS firmware onto ESP32 boards, implement open- and closed-loop thruster control, and visualize performance via ROS resources such as RVIz and RQT. On the localization front, they will integrate a Blue Robotics Ping single-beam SONAR into ROS 2, publish range data with custom nodes, and fuse measurements with a linear Kalman filter for depth and heading estimation. By the end, participants gain hands-on experience in low-cost AUV control and sensor-fusion techniques, ready to extend open-source frameworks to real-world marine applications. ⓘ More Information |
| TBD | Half Day Afternoon 1pm-5pm |
How to Implement a Full ROS 2 Application: a Tic-Tac-Toe Player Robot
Ricardo Tellez -- The Construct Brandy Xue -- AgileX Come to this workshop to learn how to create a full ROS 2 application from beginning to end that integrates perception, robot arm motion and AI. You will program an arm robot to play tic-tac-toe. We will teach how to create a ROS 2 application that makes a robot arm play tic-tac-toe against a human. We will teach how to integrate a robotic arm, a camera and an AI engine to play the game: the camera captures the current state of the board and processes the image to understand the current situation. Then it calls the AI engine to get the best next move. Then the robot arm draws the selected move on the board and waits for the human to make her move. We will use simulation and real arm robot. ⓘ More Information |
| TBD | Half Day Morning 8am-12pm |
Introducing AI PCs for Embodied AI
Graham Schelle, Sonya Yang, Joshua Lu, Ken O’Brien -- AMD Chun-Yi Lee -- National Taiwan University The new AI PC platform combines CPUs, iGPUs and NPUs onto a single chip, but how do you program this new device for your ROS 2 application? In this workshop, you will get hands-on experience with embodied AI open-source software running on AI PCs. Software will be shown running across all the processor types and we will highlight the benefits of each style of computation for roboticists. To demonstrate what is possible, we will touch on a variety of robotics frameworks such as physics simulators, robotics AI policies and real-world robotics control. And to help you build your own applications with AI PCs, we will introduce a new LLM-driven NPU code generator specifically tailored for ROS 2 software. This is a hands-on experience, and we will have both local and cloud accessible AI PCs for in-person attendees. ⓘ More Information |
| TBD | Half Day Afternoon 1pm-5pm |
Reinforcement Learning for Deliberation in ROS 2
Christian Henkel -- Bosch Research Sebastian Castro -- Robotics and AI Institute Hosted by the ROS Deliberation Community Group, this workshop offers a beginner-friendly introduction to using Reinforcement Learning (RL) for high-level decision-making in ROS 2. Through guided, hands-on exercises in a simulated robot environment, participants will learn the core concepts behind RL for robotic deliberation: how to collect data, tune hyperparameters, train policies using different algorithms like Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) or Soft Actor-Critic (SAC), and visualize and interpret the results. The workshop assumes no prior experience with RL or deliberation. All concepts and tools will be explained step by step, making it an ideal starting point for anyone curious about applying learning-based methods to robot behavior. While the workshop will focus on RL, the summary will cover general tips for integrating machine learning into ROS 2 based systems. ⓘ More Information |
| TBD | Half Day Morning 8am-12pm |
Introduction to ROS and Building Robots with Open-Source Software
Geoff Biggs -- Open Robotics Katherine Scott -- Intrinsic This workshop will provide attendees with an introduction to building robots using open-source software, particularly using ROS across various industries and applications, and applying open-source contribution, governance and licensing concepts. Those new to ROS will learn the fundamental concepts through a mixture of talks and hands-on practical exercises. Experienced members of the community will be on-hand to assist attendees with any problems they encounter, and provide answers to questions attendees may have. The workshop will also feature talks on the OSRF's other projects such as Gazebo, Open-RMF and the Turtlebot. ⓘ More Information |
CFP
Call for Proposals
The application window for ROSCon 2025 talks and workshops has now closed. We will announce the accepted talks and workshops shortly. We want to thank everyone who took the time to submit their work to ROSCon 2025.
If you have any questions/comments/firmware patches, please email roscon-2025-ec@openrobotics.org
Program Co-Chairs:
- Juan Miguel Jimeno
- Yadunund Vijay (Intrinsic)
Scholarship
ROSCon 2025 Diversity Scholarships
The 2025 ROSCon Diversity Scholarships Program is no longer accepting applications. Applicants were notified of the results via e-mail. If you have questions or concerns please contact roscon-2025-diversity-program@openrobotics.org.
Pedro Xavier, a 2018 ROSCon diversity scholar from Brazil, shares his experience.
“I am deeply grateful for being selected as a scholarship recipient for ROScon 2023. This experience was empowering and an amazing opportunity to engage with a diverse group of students and roboticists. It provided me with a valuable space to absorb knowledge from leading robotics experts and gain a deeper understanding of the latest advancements in ROS 2. The conference atmosphere was exceptionally collaborative and inviting, which I greatly appreciate.’
-- Alan Sanchez, Oregon State University
Organizers
General Chair
Vanessa Yamzon Orsi (CEO, Open Robotics)
Content Chair
Geoff Biggs (CTO, Open Robotics)
Community Liaisons
Tully Foote
(Volunteer Community Manager, Open Robotics / Open Source Lead, Intrinsic)
Tomoya Fujita
(Senior Staff Software Architect, Sony)
Kat Scott
(Volunteer Developer Advocate, Open Robotics / Developer Relations Engineer, Intrinsic)
Local Chair
Matthew Festo
(General Manager-Singapore, Intrinsic)
Advisors
Ryan Gariepy
(OSRF Board Member / CTO, Clearpath Robotics & OTTO Motors)
Brian Gerkey
(OSRF Board Chair / CTO, Intrinsic)
MeetGreen Team
Denise Barker, Team Lead
Britta Ehnebuske
Kate Wilson
Program Committee Chairs
Juan Miguel Jimeno
Yadunund Vijay (Intrinsic)
Diversity Chairs
Kimberly McGuire
Alan Sanchez
Conference Image Design
Archive
Archive of Past ROSCons
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