About us
Bay area meetup group for Robot Operating System (ROS) users.
ROS is an open source set of software libraries and tools that help you build robot applications. Meetups will focus on talks about ROS, Gazebo, and other elements of the ROS ecosystem. Topics can range anywhere from core development to research projects to product development.
If you want to share your experiences with ROS or come listen and discuss, this is the group for you!
Interested in presenting or hosting? Send an email to ros-by-the-bay@openrobotics.org.
Upcoming events
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ROS By-The-Bay January 2026
250 Mayfield Ave, Mountain View, CA, USROS By-The-Bay is the Bay Area's only meetup exclusively for Robot Operating System (ROS) users.
We're back from our ROSCon hiatus at our regular Google X location at 250 West Mayfield Avenue in Mountain View!
Our speaker this month will include:
- William Sitch, CBO of Main Street Autonomy will discuss targetless multi-modal (camera/lidar/radar/imu/encoder/gps-ins) sensor calibration. For real, no targets or checkerboards or environmental modification - calibrate anywhere. Main Street Autonomy is an autonomy software and services company that provides automatic sensor calibration and perception-based localization solutions to the robotics and autonomous vehicle industries.
- Skyler Medeiros, a Principal Robotics Engineer at iRobot, will discuss iRobot's recent release of their ROS Benchmarking Suite which is a containerized environment for simulating arbitrary ROS 2 systems and graph configurations, comparing the performance of various RMW implementations, and identifying performance issues and bottlenecks.
WE ARE LOOKING FOR SPEAKERS FOR 2026!
If you would like to present at ROS By-The-Bay, or would like to nominate someone to present at ROS By-The-Bay please reach out to the organizer.145 attendees
PX4/ROS By-The-Bay February Meetup
250 Mayfield Ave, Mountain View, CA, USROS By-The-Bay is the Bay Area's only meetup exclusively for Robot Operating System (ROS) users (and also PX4 users)!
We'll be at our regular Google X location at 250 West Mayfield Avenue in Mountain View!
Our speaker this month will include:
- Ramón Roche, the general manager of the Drone Code Foundation the maintainers of the PX4 Autopilot. Ramon will give a update on the current state of PX4 ecosystem and their future work.
- Zeerek Ahmad, a senior robotics and controls engineer at Polymath Robotics will discuss the development of Polymath's Hardware Abstraction Layer(s) as an alternative to ROS 2 control for improved scalability and reliability.
35 attendees
Past events
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