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Every space mission begins long before launch day. Ideas become spacecraft. Thousands of decisions are made before a single engine ignites. The European Space Agency (ESA) knows what that journey looks like. As the agency prepares to increase the missions it supports by 2030, it is laying the groundwork for decades of future exploration. Working with Canonical, ESA is building a common platform for mission operations based on open source. Kubernetes, Ceph, PostgreSQL, and Kafka form ESA’s infrastructure foundation.

Learn how to create custom chiseled root filesystems (rootfs) using Chisel across different Ubuntu releases and CPU architectures. In this tutorial, we cover three key deployment scenarios: Each scenario is verified inside a sudo chroot environment to confirm application functionality.

Discover Steven’s journey with Ubuntu in this interview at Google Next.

Experimental robots currently assemble minor subparts of themselves, though practical utility remains a distant milestone. What is physical AI? Physical AI embeds machine learning directly into hardware, enabling algorithms to interact, move, and perform autonomous tasks in the physical world.

Learn how to launch Ubuntu Pro versions that aren't available in the AWS EC2 quick launch menu. In this tutorial, Carlos Bravo from Canonical's Cloud team walks you through: Key Resources.

What is physical AI? Physical AI embeds machine learning directly into hardware, enabling algorithms to interact, move, and perform autonomous tasks in the physical world. Traditionally, robots relied on precise, hardcoded coordinates; if an object shifted by a single millimeter, the entire system failed. Today, robotics is moving past rigid automation toward truly adaptive architecture. Neural networks help machines process raw sensor data in real time. Consequently, machines can dynamically reason through the unpredictable physical world.

AI agents are moving from demos to production – but who governs what they do at runtime? The Agent Governance Toolkit (AGT) is an open source, MIT-licensed framework from Microsoft that enforces deterministic policy before every tool call, message, and action an agent takes. In this talk, Imran walks through how AGT brings zero-trust identity, policy-as-code, tamper-evident Merkle audit chains, and a Kubernetes sidecar model to any AI agent, regardless of framework.

Discover how Anbox Cloud helps engineering teams scale Android development by moving Android workloads from physical hardware into the cloud. In this video, we showcase how developers can run, test, validate, and share Android environments on demand using containerized and virtualized Android instances. We explore how both approaches work, key differences, and use cases.

The closing remark at the Ubuntu Summit reflects on two days of open source innovation and community milestone announcements. Save the dates for the next Ubuntu Summit: November 12-13, 2026! About Diogo Diogo Sousa is the Security Engineering Manager at Canonical. Ubuntu Summit 26.04 is a showcase for the innovative and the ambitious. Subscribe. Fuel your curiosity.

For years, we were told we were escaping hardware. Virtualization, containers, and Kubernetes made the underlying servers practically invisible to the average application developer. Then came the AI boom and infrastructure got incredibly weird again. In this fast-paced lightning talk, Billy Olson from Canonical breaks down why the modern AI server is no longer just a machine, but a volatile distributed system packed inside a single chassis.