Join NVIDIA at ROSCon 2026
September 22–24, 2026
Toronto, Canada at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel
Discover What’s Possible With NVIDIA Robotics
Join NVIDIA, partners, and customers for three days of workshops, technical talks, tutorials, and demos. Learn from leading robotics developers and get the latest on the NVIDIA Isaac™ and NVIDIA Jetson™ platforms, and ROS 2 for real-time applications.
NVIDIA Sessions at ROSCon 2026
Toronto, Canada
Wednesday, September. 23 |
10–10:30 a.m. EDT
Grand Ballroom West/Centre
Keynote: Accelerated Memory Transports: Hardware-Accelerated Pipelines for Physical AI in ROS 2 Lyrical
Accelerated Memory Transports are a new ROS 2 Lyrical feature that enables near-zero-overhead transfer of large data like tensors and point clouds using language-native types. This talk covers how they work and how to integrate them into your own applications.
Speakers: Karsten Patzwaldt, NVIDIA Robotics Platform Software Manager; CY Chen, NVIDIA Senior Robotics Software Engineer
Tuesday, September 22 |
8 a.m.–12 p.m. EDT
Workshop: From URDF to USD: A Complete Pipeline for High-Fidelity ROS 2 Simulation in NVIDIA Isaac Sim
Walk through the complete pipeline from raw URDF to a fully ROS 2-integrated simulation in NVIDIA Isaac Sim, covering USD conventions, robot import, collision detection, and joint tuning. You’ll finish by wiring up ROS 2 interfaces via OmniGraphs and scaling to multi-robot scenes using Simulation Interfaces.
Speakers: Ayush Ghosh, NVIDIA Robotics Systems Engineer and Ji Yuan Feng, NVIDIA Robotics Systems Engineer
Tuesday, September 22 |
1–5 p.m. EDT
Workshop: Train and Deploy Contact-Rich Robot Manipulation Skills With Isaac Lab and Isaac ROS
Learn how to train contact-rich manipulation policies in Isaac Lab and deploy them in ROS 2 using NVIDIA Isaac ROS, walking through a contact-rich pick and insert workflow with GPU-accelerated planning via cuMotion and a RL trained policy. You’ll explore how to configure an Isaac for Manipulation pipeline and tune it for robust, repeatable sim-to-real performance on insertion tasks.
Speakers: Raffaello Bonghi, NVIDIA Technical Marketing Engineer; Rishabh Chadha, NVIDIA Technical Marketing Engineer; Ashwin Varghese Kuruttukulam, NVIDIA Senior Robotics Software Engineer
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Frequently Asked Questions About NVIDIA at ROSCon 2026
ROSCon Global 2026 is the fifteenth annual flagship developer conference for the Robot Operating System (ROS) community. It serves as an educational three-day event where developers of all skill levels can share technical ideas, learn foundational tooling, explore custom libraries, and network with global industry experts.
Learn more about the mission and history of the event on the official ROSCon Global 2026 website.
The event will take place in Toronto, Canada, from September 22nd through September 24th, 2026, at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel.
Check the event location and date details on the official ROSCon Global 2026 conference page.
This conference is designed for ROS developers of all experience levels, from beginners to experts, who are interested in robotics, physical AI, and the ROS ecosystem.
Find out if this event is right for your skill level on the ROSCon Global 2026 homepage.
NVIDIA is hosting two technical workshops: "From URDF to USD: A Complete Pipeline for High-Fidelity ROS 2 Simulation in NVIDIA Isaac Sim" and "Train and Deploy Contact-Rich Robot Manipulation Skills With Isaac Lab and Isaac ROS."
Review the schedule for NVIDIA-led technical workshops in the ROSCon 2026 program here.
The NVIDIA keynote, titled "Accelerated Memory Transports: Hardware-Accelerated Pipelines for Physical AI in ROS 2 Lyrical," will cover how the new ROS 2 Lyrical feature enables near-zero-overhead transfer of large data, such as tensors and point clouds, for physical AI applications.
Read about the keynote session details in the ROSCon 2026 session documentation here.
Comprehensive resources, including getting-started guides, reference workflows, and packages for Isaac ROS, are available on the official Isaac ROS document hub.
Access the Isaac ROS documentation hub to begin your development.
You can sign up for the NVIDIA robotics newsletter to receive the latest information, industry news, and updates on robotics technologies directly from NVIDIA.
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ROS 2 Lyrical is a version of the Robot Operating System that introduces new features, including accelerated memory transports — contributed by NVIDIA — designed to improve the performance of hardware-accelerated pipelines for physical AI.
Learn more about ROS 2 features and NVIDIA contributions here.
Isaac Sim is an open-source reference framework for simulating and testing AI-driven robotics in physically based virtual environments, while Isaac ROS is built on the ROS 2 framework to help developers leverage NVIDIA-accelerated libraries for real-world deployment.
Explore the differences between Isaac Sim and Isaac ROS for your development workflow.
You can engage with the community through the official NVIDIA robotics forums or by participating in regular robotics livestreams hosted by the NVIDIA Omniverse team.
Join the conversation on the NVIDIA Robotics Developer Forums.
