ROS News for the Week March 31st, 2025
Applications for GSoC 2025, the OSRF’s only paid internship program, are due on Tuesday, April 8, 2025 6:00 PM. I checked this morning and there are only ~30 legitimate applications. A few of the “less sexy” projects don’t have any applications. All of this is to say, if you take the time to apply you have a really good shot at getting accepted!
ROSCon 2025 Diversity Scholarship applications are due in two weeks, on 2025-04-18T07:00:00Z.
Join us for on 2025-04-30T07:00:00Z for our next Gazebo Community meeting on RoSE Terrain Generator (RTG): Monocular Depth-Based Synthetic DEM Generation
The Robot Report’s 50 most innovative robotics companies were released this week. More than half of them are ROS users, including OSRA members NVIDIA, Clearpath, Roboto, Asensus, and Locus.
Check out this super cool open hardware / open software dexterous hand that runs ROS!. Source code and CAD available here.
Our colleagues over at University of Michigan have released 
OceanSim: A GPU-Accelerated Underwater Robot Perception Simulation Framework. Even better, it has ROS baked right in. Source code available here.
Check out FACTR an open hardware / open software teleop and RL training framework based on ROS. FACTR Hardware - FACTR Teleop - FACTR Training
There’s finally a low-cost micro-ROS/LiDAR/Motor drivers board thats available commercially?. THIS IS HUGE!
Events
- 2025-04-07 ROS Deliberation Community Group Meeting
- 2025-04-11 Mistral AI Robotics Hackathon Paris
- 2025-04-28 International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering
- 2025-04-30 Robotics Summit & Expo wsg @gbiggs.
- 2025-04-30 Gazebo Community meeting: RoSE Terrain Generator (RTG): Monocular Depth-Based Synthetic DEM Generation
- 2025-04-30 Application Deadline 2nd ACM SIGSOFT Summer School on Software Engineering in Robotics in Delft
- 2025-05-02 CFP Deadline IEEE SMC-IT/SCC Space Robotics Workshop CFP
- 2025-05-15 ROS-Industrial Consortium Americas 2025 Annual Meeting Detroit
- 2025-05-23 ICRA 2025 Advancing Quantitative and QUAlitative SIMulators for marine applications
- 2025-05-24 ROS MeetUp in Cali, Colombia!
- 2025-05-30 => 2025-05-31 2025 Open Hardware Summit in Edinburgh
- 2025-09-09 ROSCon JP in Nagoya
- 2025-10-27 =>2025-10-30 ROSCon Singapore
- 2025-11-17 => 2025-11-20 Joint ROSCon Germany and France
- 2025-05-11 CFP Deadline for Robotics & AI Track @ CppCon
News
- OSRF Google Summer of Code 2025
– Paid Internship – APPLICATIONS DUE 2025-04-08T07:00:00Z - We’re Creating a Willow Garage Oral History – tell us what you want to hear about
- Robot Report’s 50 most innovative robotics companies - Half are ROS users, including OSRA members NVIDIA, Clearpath, Roboto, Asensus, and Locus.
- New Canadian / Danish Robotics Cluster Alliance
- Introducing Autoware Foundation 2.0!
- Video: SwRI Develops COMOT Mobile Manipulator Robot
- OSRA TGC meeting minutes for February, 2025
- ROS 2 tutorials upgrade & entrance level complexity
- Autonomous forest exploration and wildlife monitoring robot.
- Invitation to Collaborate on AsyncAPI Specification for ROS 2
- U of Alberta research focuses on robotics in medical applications
- A Roboticist’s First Time at the European Robotics Forum
- Haply Robotics to offer its haptic controller with PickNik’s MoveItPro
- Hyundai to buy ‘tens of thousands’ of Boston Dynamics robots
- Chef Robotics raises $20.6 million to continue building AI robot arms- Pitch Deck
- Agility Robotics reportedly raising $400M for humanoid warehouse robots
- What is a Servo Motor and How it Works
- More ROS Train Robots!!!
- Video Friday
- Nurturing New Contributors: The Art of Crafting Good First Issues on GitHub
- Weekly Robotics #306
ROS & Robotics
- Robotec’s new standard interfaces for interacting with simulators from ROS 2
New ROS Dexterous Hand - source code- OceanSim: A GPU-Accelerated Underwater Robot Perception Simulation Framework - source code
- FACTR open hardware / software teleop and training – FACTR Hardware - FACTR Teleop - Training
- Vision Model for Drones
- Low-cost micro-ROS/LiDAR/Motor drivers board available commercially
- New ROS 2 package for multi-sensor calibration
- Input for Aerial Vehicles ROS Support Guide
- Preparing for Noetic Sync 2025-04-08
- New packages and patch release for Humble Hawksbill 2025-03-31
- New packages for ROS 2 Rolling Ridley 2025-03-28
- Odometry for a Simulated Mobile Robot in a cool world with ROS & Gazebo
- Community interest in a Vector Field Histogram global path planning algorithm
- New Online Course: Building Gazebo Simulations with Blender
- New LineTurtle mini Robot
- ROS 2 / Gazebo OmniDirectional Robot Simulator
- New YOLO annotator with some nice automation
- Openwalker ROS Robot
- On Learning Robot Racing Policies
- A ROS 1 and ROS 2 node that converts PointCloud2 LIDAR data to OccupancyGrid 2D map data based on intensity and / or height
- Building Autonomous Vehicle in Carla- PID Controller & ROS 2
- Source code for an end-to-end autonomous vehicle stack
- A precise and methodical process designed to assess the mechanical and sensory capabilities of the UR robot in real-world applications.
Workshop on developing ROS 2 applications using the Rust language- ROS 2 Laser Segmentation Tools
- ros2-pkg-create: Powerful ROS 2 Package Generator
- Autoware Core 1.0!
- Towards a robotic intrusion prevention system: Combining security and safety in cognitive social robots
- ROS 2 platform based program designed to control and Monitor ATVs.
- MIT Course: Visual Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles
- MIT-SPARK/spark-fast-lio: FAST-LIO2 on ROS 2 with various functionalities for LIO mapping
- Video: How to Utilize LeRobot, Isaac Sim and ROS 2
- New SLAM-Handbook
- Int-Ball2 Technology Demonstration Platform ROS/Gazebo Simulator
- ROS# for .Net Applications
- OpenArm
- MegaRover ROS / Gazebo Simulation
- New Open Hardware Arm
