FOSDEM 2025 Robotics Devroom Schedule

Hi all!

2 more weeks until FOSDEM 2025 starts! The Robotics and Simulation developer room has the schedule and speakers all ready to go! We had a lot of submissions since our CfP so we couldn’t accept all but we are quite excited about the talks that will be present.

Info:

Schedule

  • 13:15 - Room Welcome
  • 13:20 - Lightning round 1:
    • Jonas Dech - PyCRAM, A Framework for Cognitive Robot Control
    • Roland Meertens - All my frustrations with ROS summed up in 5 minutes
    • Edgar Riba - Kornia-rs: Low level Computer Vision and 3D Library in Rust
    • Loïc Vigneron - Building a robot powered with Raspberry pis and Arduinos from a super fast Traxxas RC car
  • 13:45 - Ignacio Davila Gallesio, Agustin Alba Chicar - Accelerating robotics development through simulation
  • 14:15 - Jan Hanca - O3DE: Creating realistic simulations with open-source game engine
  • 14:45 - Said Alvarado-Marin - Repurposing Valve’s SteamVR 2.0 Technology to Develop an Open-Source, Low-Cost Motion Capture System for Robotics
  • 15:15 - Julien Enoch - Eclipse Zenoh: Understanding the Protocol and its Potential in Robotic
  • 15:45 - JoseMaria Cañas Plaza, Javier Izquierdo - BTstudio, a web tool for programming robots with Behavior Trees
  • 16:15 - Pierre Kancir - ArduPilot : Trusted, Versatile and FOSS autopilot for all and everything
  • 16:40 - Lightning round 2:
    • Michel Hidalgo, Lucas Chiesa - Whales use Lighthouses too: Open source positioning for open source robots
    • Ramon Roche - Build, Launch, and Soar with Dronecode: The infrastructure ecosystem for the development of autonomous aerial robotics.
    • Arne Baeyens - Integration and unit testing in ROS 2
    • Jose Luis Rivero - ROS in transition: a new organizational path under the Open Source Robotics Alliance

Make sure to keep an eye on the official Robotics and Simulation Development room schedule for any updates. Also you can watch a recording of the talks if you can’t make it yourself. The rest of you, we will see you in Brussels!

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There are also a couple of robotics related talks we saw at other developer rooms as well!

  • Saturday 11:00 - Embedded, Mobile and Automotive Developer room- The road to open source General Purpose Humanoids with dora-rs (link)
  • Saturday 15:25 - Rust Developer Room - Programming ROS 2 with Rust by Julia Marsal Perendreu (link)

If anyone has seen any others pop up, let us know

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Thank you for sharing :slightly_smiling_face:!!

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2 more nights until FOSDEM 2025! and 3 nights until the Robotics & Simulation Developer room

For those that can’t make it to Brussels in that short of a time, all talks will be streamed and recorded.

Remote attendees
Room stream starts from 2025-02-02T12:15:00Z2025-02-02T16:00:00Z
Link: FOSDEM 2024 - Stream UB2.147
Schedule: FOSDEM 2025 - Welcome to the Robotics and Simulation devroom
Q&A with matrix: https://chat.fosdem.org/#/room/#2025-robotics:fosdem.org

Onsite attendees
Room: UB2.147 (map)
Directions: From the foodtrucks and then second floor go to the left from the stairs

Very excited for this. See you there !

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It’s a wrap! Thanks everyone for joining! See you next year :smiley:

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