ROSCon Global 2026 Opens Registration with Free Workshops in Toronto

ROSCon Global 2026 registration is officially open, and early bird pricing—available through July 12, 2026—makes attending workshops effectively free. This year, the conference expands to a three-day format, adding a full first day dedicated to Birds of a Feather sessions and other community-driven activities. With high demand from last year, organizers have increased workshop capacity to 10 total: eight half-day and two full-day sessions. Workshops cover a broad range of advanced robotics topics, from simulation pipelines using NVIDIA Isaac Sim and URDF-to-USD workflows, to hands-on training with contact-rich manipulation in Isaac Lab and deploying embodied AI models on edge NPUs. Other sessions dive deep into ros2_control scaling, MoveIt 2 motion planning, PX4-based aerial robotics, and middleware performance tuning for ROS 2.

The expanded lineup also includes practical workshops on reproducible ROS development with Pixi and RoboStack, as well as a full-day Navigation University for step-by-step configuration of simulated mobile robots. Organizers encourage attendees to plan for the entire week, teasing additional announcements and unofficial events around the conference. Toronto’s host committee has prepared a micro-site with dining, shopping, and tourist information. With early bird rates making workshops free and sessions filling quickly, this is a critical opportunity for robotics professionals to gain hands-on experience with the latest tools and frameworks.