r/ROS is a subreddit with 43k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses looking for, gazebo, ros, struggling with, and simulation, and they frequently recommend/review software tools, gps, and mapping software.
This subreddit is for discussions around the Robot Operating System, or ROS.
Popular Themes in r/ROS
#1
Advice Requests
: "I Built a Robot to Help My Friend Quit Smoking need advice how can i improve it?"
7 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Need opinion on a ROS product NexArm"
4 posts
#3
Ideas
: "I'm building a reliability intelligence system for robots — what am I missing?"
1 post
#4
Money Talk
: "Should I buy a MacBook?"
1 post
#5
Self-Promotion
: "We open-sourced the brain firmware for our ROS 2 desktop robot. Here's a simple Python node to control it."
1 post
Popular Topics in r/ROS
#1
Looking For
6 posts
#2
Gazebo
5 posts
#3
Ros
5 posts
#4
Struggling With
4 posts
#5
Simulation
4 posts
#6
Mentor
3 posts
#7
Robot
3 posts
#8
Slam
2 posts
#9
Internship
2 posts
#10
Lidar
2 posts
Products Discussed in r/ROS
Software Tools
1 review
#1
ArduPilot
5.0★ from 1 review
Gps
1 review
#1
u-blox
5.0★ from 1 review
Mapping Software
1 review
#1
Open Robotics
4.0★ from 1 review
Flair Used in r/ROS
#1
Project
: "[Project update] The drone now flies the same building with no map, no GNSS, no magnetometer and no lidar: two cameras do both the seeing and the localizing (ROS 2 Jazzy, PX4 SITL, Gazebo Harmonic, CUDA MPPI)"
20 posts
#2
Question
: "Should I buy a MacBook?"
20 posts
#3
News
: "Hands-on with the RT-G, the spherical robot patrolling with police in Wenzhou. It drives with an internal pendulum"
6 posts
#4
Discussion
: "ArduPilot vs PX4 for ROS 2 Drone Project: MVP Strategy vs Advanced Stack for Novice Team?"
6 posts
#5
Blog post
: "How do lunar rovers detect wheel slip on loose sand? (A look at visual odometry vs encoders in ROS 2)"
2 posts
#6
Tutorial
: "Make Low Cost Humanoid Hand at Home Step by Step - Amazing Hand ( Part 1 )"
2 posts
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Last updated: October 2, 2026