ROS News for the Week of April 21st, 2025
Join us next Thursday, 2025-05-01T16:00:00Z to kick off the Kilted Kaiju Test and Tutorial Party We need your help to beta test Kilted!
If you are in the Bay Area join us on Wednesday, April 30th, for ROS By-The-Bay. I will have Kilted stickers!
Join us next Wednesday, 2025-04-30T16:00:00Z, for our monthly Gazebo Community Meeting.
THIS IS HUGE! The fine folks over at Hugging Face / Pollen Robotics just open sourced the entire stack for Pollen Robotic’s Reachy robot!
The fine folks at RoboFlow have released a unified open source library for object tracking featuring clean room re-implementations of the leading multi-object tracking algorithms. – source
Events
- 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- 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
- 2025-06-10 Autonomous Grand Challenge 2025 @ ICCV & IROS
- 2025-06-30 - 2025-07-04 ACM Sigsoft Robotics Summer School
- 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
- 2025-09-23 Foxglove Actuate Conference
- 2025-10-27 =>2025-10-30 ROSCon Singapore
- 2025-11-17 => 2025-11-20 Joint ROSCon Germany and France
News
- Kilted Test and Tutorial Party and Release Events
- Ros-controls PMC meeting 22nd April 2025
- New Book: Mastering ROS 2 for Robotics Programming
- ROS PMC Minutes for April 22, 2025
- Durin digs up $3.4M to automate drills for critical minerals exploration
- Cosmic Robotics’ robots could speed up solar panel deployments
- Starship Technologies surpasses 8M autonomous deliveries
- Overland AI demonstrates full-stack ground autonomy for uncrewed breaching
- Monarch Tractor partners with Dairy Farmers of America for autonomous feed pushing
- Robot Videos: Cargo Robots, Robot Marathons, and More
- KiCad Version 9.0.2 Release Candidate 1 Available
- ROS 2 Humble Home Service Challenge
- Sony AS-DT1 tiny industrial LiDAR depth sensor can operate under bright conditions
- Tesseract Monthly Check In - April 2025 - with Wason Tech
- Automatic Addison on Humanoids
- Is Figure Exaggerating its BMW Partnership?
ROS
- Reachy 2 humanoid – full ROS 2 dev stack now open-source (one-line Docker, sim + Python SDK)
- Video: How to Tune a PID Controller for an Inverted Pendulum
- New packages for Humble Hawksbill 2025-04-25
- Husarion UGV ROS 2 driver released!
- Proposal: Namespace Shorthand Support in ROS 2 Parameter Values
- RIO (FPGA Realtime-IO)
- Video: Aerial Robotics Meeting - April 17th 2025
- New Packages for Noetic 2025-04-24 – JUST THREE MORE SYNCS LEFT!
- New tool for working with Behavior Trees
- Learn ROS2 Humble with C++
- TurtleBot3 pick-and-place using the ArUco markers in both simulated and real-world environments!
- Advanced SLAM & Perception Experiments on Quadruped Robots with ROS 2 Jazzy & Gazebo Harmonic
- Collision_restraint: A ROS 2 package to stop your robot driving into things
- VSCode Extension to Simplify ROS 2 Environment Setup & Development
- ROS 2 platform designed to control and Monitor ATVs
- Visual Studio Code Extension for managing ROS 2 environments.
- Energy efficiency in ROS communication: a comparison across programming languages and workloads
- Video: Nav2GPT – Robot-Navigation with LLMs & ROS 2
- A unified library for object tracking featuring clean room re-implementations of leading multi-object tracking algorithms – source
- Pre-commit hooks for ament_lint
- Best of Robot Simulators
- ROS 2 URDF Converter
- RUKA: Rethinking the Design of Humanoid Hands with Learning
- Digital twin of the University of Michigan’s Mcity Test Facility
- FlexCloud: Georeferencing of Point Cloud Maps
- AnyDexGrasp: Learning General Dexterous Grasping for Different Hands with Human-level Learning Efficiency
- LiteGS: A refactored codebase for Gaussian Splatting.
- QUT Robot Academy
- Livox device driver under Ros(Compatible with ROS 2)
- Browser-Controller Robotics: A ROS Noetic Web Interface
- Cabot Navigation
- Video: Training a Robot from Scratch in Simulation, from URDF to OpenUSD
- Zero-Drift Point Cloud Mapping using Map Priors
- Gazebo Attachable Plugin – AttachablePlugin
- Livox device driver for ROS 2
- A Survey on RGB-D Datasets
- “Introduction to Robotics and Perception” by Frank Dellaert and Seth Hutchinson
- Roller-Coaster-SLAM-Dataset: The world’s first roller coaster SLAM dataset
- Uncertainty-Aware Model Predictive Control for Motorized LiDAR Odometry
- Coral Reef Datasets
Got a Minute?
At this week’s waffle meeting we had a set of issues came up and we would really like the community’s help in solving them, A new contributor with a static analyzer has been analyzing RViz2 and then filing issues where necessary. We need the community’s help to verify that these issue are indeed actual issues and to then fix them as necessary.