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GrandTour: Taking Legged Robotics Into the Wild
CommunityROSMar 26, 2026
Introducing GrandTour: a large-scale, open-access legged-robotics dataset spanning 49 missions across diverse conditions to accelerate the development and benchmarking of autonomy algorithms.

Calibrating a monocular camera for the LeKiwi robot using ROS 2
CommunityMar 4, 2026
This article details the process of calibrating a USB webcam for the LeKiwi robot, modifying the standard ROS 2 camera calibration process to run headless without a display, using terminal logging and automatic result saving.

Upgrading the LeKiwi into a LiDAR-equipped explorer
CommunityTutorialFeb 7, 2026
Upgrading LeKiwi robot with a 2D LiDAR and ROS 2, transforming it into a low-cost open-source autonomous platform

Turning a VLP‑16 Into a “Spherical” Scanner
TutorialCommunityJan 31, 2026
How a secondhand VLP‑16, one extra mechanical axis, and encoder-based deskewing turned into a cave-mapping learning project