diff --git a/builder/image-software.sh b/builder/image-software.sh
index 3a95f22f..930a5b07 100755
--- a/builder/image-software.sh
+++ b/builder/image-software.sh
@@ -156,6 +156,9 @@ syntax on
 autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.launch set syntax=xml
 EOF
 
+echo_stamp "Change default keyboard layout to US"
+sed -i 's/XKBLAYOUT="gb"/XKBLAYOUT="us"/g' /etc/default/keyboard
+
 echo_stamp "Attempting to kill dirmngr"
 gpgconf --kill dirmngr
 # dirmngr is only used by apt-key, so we can safely kill it.