ROS News for the Week of April 14th, 2025
The ROS 2 Kilted Kaiju feature freeze was Monday! We should have information about the release process early next week!
I’ve scheduled a ROS By-The-Bay meetup for 2025-05-01T01:00:00Z coincide with the Kilted Kaiju Test and Tutorial Party.
Check out this teaser for, “Any6D: Model-free 6D Pose Estimation of Novel Objects” by KAIST and NVIDIA that will be presented at CVPR 2025! The demo seems to show ROS integration. Source code isn’t out yet but you can read the paper here. Heads up, we’re planning a ROS meetup at CVPR this year, more details will be out in a couple of weeks.
The fine folks at ETH Zurich have released ORCA Hand, an open source software and hardware hand you can build at home for under $2000.
The fine folks at HuggingFace
, the maintainers of LeRobot, have acquiredthe equally awesome folks at Pollen Robotics. No word yet on what the merger means for the team, but we expect it to be awesome!
I came across a wonderful gif this week about the upcoming ROS 1 end-of-life on May 31st.
Events
- 2025-04-24 Autonomous Driving Meetup #6 Berlin
- 2025-04-26 Robotics Club SF: Dolores Hangout
- 2025-04-28 International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering
- 2025-04-30 ROS By-The-Bay
- 2025-05-01 Kilted Kaiju Test and Tutorial Party – announcement soon
- 2025-04-30 Robotics Summit & Expo wsg @gbiggs.
- 2025-05-01 Career Fair @ Robotics Summit & Expo Boston
- 2025-05-02 CFP Deadline for Space Robotics Workshop at IEEE SMC-IT/SCC
- 2025-05-05 ROSCon 2025 Workshop CFP Deadline
- 2025-05-10 => 2025-05-11 ROBORACER @ ICRA 2025
- 2025-05-11 CFP Deadline for Robotics & AI Track @ CppCon
- 2025-05-12 The OpenCV-SID Conference on Computer Vision & AI
- 2025-05-15 ROS-Industrial Consortium Americas 2025 Annual Meeting Detroit
- 2025-05-19 Robotics Startup Bootcamp at ICRA
- 2025-05-23 ROSConJP CFP Deadline
- 2025-05-23 ICRA 2025 Advancing Quantitative and QUAlitative SIMulators for marine applications
- 2025-05-24 ROS MeetUp in Cali, Colombia!
- 2025-05-26 ROSCon UK 2025 CFP Closes
- 2025-05-30 => 2025-05-31 2025 Open Hardware Summit in Edinburgh
- 2025-05-31 ROS Noetic End-of-Life
- 2025-06-02 ROSCon 2025 Talk Submission Deadline
- 2025-08-29 => 2025-09-05 ROS Summer School 2025 at FH Aachen
- 2025-09-09 ROSCon JP in Nagoya
- 2025-09-15 => 2025-09-17 Inaugral ROSCon UK in Edinburgh
- 2025-10-27 => 2025-10-30 ROSCon Singapore
- 2025-11-17 => 2025-11-20 Joint ROSCon Germany and France
News
- Cosmic Robotics is Building Robots for Solar Power Deployments
- Robots, Mirrors, Music
- Hugging Face bridges gap between AI and physical world with Pollen Robotics acquisition
- Peppermint Robotics Raises $4M
- Scout.ai Raises $15M
- Physical AI startup RLWRLD brings in $15M
- Overland AI launches ULTRA autonomous ground systems for defense
- Request for Comment: URDF Joint Limits
- Robotics in Africa is trending upward and has a bright future
- Video: Space ROS x Medical: shared goals and tools
- Video: ROS I Developers’ Meeting
- Video: Isaac Sim in under half an hour
- Video: Embodied Intelligence: How AI is Powering the Next Generation of Robotics
- Request for Beta Testing: Nav2 Route Server
- RobotCAD 8.0.0 Released!
- PyRoboSim 4.0.0 is now available!
- Monarch Tractor partners with Dairy Farmers of America for autonomous feed pushing
- Revolutionizing Dairy Farming: How Robots Benefit Cows & Farmers
- Autonomous trucking developer Kodiak Robotics to go public via SPAC
- ABB plans to spin off its robotics division as a separately listed company – The Robot Report
ROS
New TurtleBot3 Examples Are Here!- Autonomous Navigation and Docking for Panther & Lynx UGVs
- Navigating through the Robotic Simulation Landscape
- Optimizing Video Streaming in ROS 2
- ROS 2 URDF Converter
- A curated list of awesome robot descriptions (URDF, MJCF)
- AQUA-SLAM
- ARMADA Robot Arms from KAIST
- BeetleBot Differential Drive Robot Template for Gazebo / ROS 2
- New packages for ROS 2 Rolling Ridley 2025-04-16
- Generic Controller for Omnidirectional Robots using Omni Wheels
- Understanding the benefits and challenges for adopting behavior trees
- Standalone C++17 ROS 1 client
- Rviz Publisher
- ROS 2 Humble (C++) Communication with Siemens PLC — Modbus TCP vs OPC UA?
- Path Planning for Multi-Robot Navigation in Duckietown
- Video: Autonomous Mobile Robotics & ROS 2: the next step for robotics
- Orca Hand
- Set of tutorials to practice robotics concepts with Webots and Python
- Any6D: Model-free 6D Pose Estimation of Novel Objects
- ROS 2 URDF Converter
- Robot Manipulation Baselines
- ROS 2 AI Lecture
- SOTA robust LiDAR odometry
- Automate Robot Modeling with Onshape-to-Robot
- Example of ROS 2 and Gazebo on Pixi
- RoboVerse: Towards a Unified Platform, Dataset and Benchmark for Scalable and Generalizable Robot Learning
- Performing feature matching using the DeDoDev2 model in PyTorch
- ROS Node to converts sensor_msgs/PointCloud2 LIDAR data to nav_msgs/OccupancyGrid 2D map
- Automatic Target-Less Camera-LiDAR Calibration from Motion and Deep Point Correspondences
Got a Minute? 
We’re looking for three new contributors to help us with two new features and one issue with the Open-RMF Site Editor. Open-RMF is our brand new open source multi-robot fleet manager written in 
Rust:crab: and is the bleeding edge of what we are working on!
Open-RMF Site Editor #217: We’re need someone to create a way to save the user’s view point in the Open-RMF Site Editor that can we loaded when the user starts the application.
Open-RMF Site Editor #216: There is a bug such that deleting a fiducial that belongs to a group will permanently block any other fiducial in its drawing from being able to join that group.
Open-RMF Site Editor #225: We need a simple dialog that warns users before discarding unsaved changes. This is a great first issue for those just getting started with Rust.