ROSCon UK 2026

ROSCon UK, the Robot Operating System developer conference, runs its Edinburgh edition at Pollock Halls, hosted by the Tartan Robotics Collective with the Open Source Robotics Foundation. The structure is three days: day 0 is tours, robot demos and socials; day 1 is workshops and deep dives; day 2 is the main conference of keynotes and talks, with a gala dinner at the Playfair Library in between. Professional and student tickets are priced separately. ROS is the de facto standard framework for robotics software, so the talks are generally from people shipping it rather than surveying it. Why go: this is the UK's main gathering of working robotics software engineers and it is in Edinburgh — the deepest technical robotics room Scotland gets all year. Best for robotics and autonomy engineers, researchers moving toward product, and hardware founders whose stack sits on ROS.