ROS News for the Week of April 28th, 2025
The Kilted Kaiju Test and Tutorial Party is live! We would really appreciate your help testing Kilted ahead of the release on May 23rd! Our top 20 testers will get their choice of OSRA membership or ROS swag.
Kilted Kaiju swag sale is now live. Pick up a shirt, show your ROS pride, and help support our open source projects!
This week we’re happy to announce three new ROS meetups! One in Nivelles, Belgium, one in Lagos, Nigeria, and one in New York City.
If you are headed to Automate in Detroit, we have ROS meetup planned for Tuesday, May 13th sponsored by ROS-Industrial and and Picknik. Both Automate and the meetup are free and open to everyone! If you are within driving distance of Detroit we recommend you attend!
Check out this really impressive project: ROSplat an Online, ROS 2 Based, Gaussian Splat Visualizer. ROS finally has a gaussian splat visualizer!
This week I came across this really impressive quadruped robot project put together by
Bontalakoti Harshavardhan at the National Institute of Technology Silchar. Check out the video here.
For over a decade the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSUOSL) has hosted all of our ROS websites and most of our ROS binaries, along with numerous other open source projects. They seem to be having some funding difficulties and are looking for additional financial support from the open source community. If you or your employer are in a position to help them out it would be greatly appreciated!
Events
- 2025-05-05 ROS Deliberation Community Group Meeting
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
2025-05-13 ROS Meetup in Detroit at Automate- 2025-05-15 ROS-Industrial Consortium Americas 2025 Annual Meeting Detroit
- 2025-05-19 Robotics Startup Bootcamp at ICRA
- 2025-05-23 CFP Deadline for Space Robotics Workshop at IEEE SMC-IT/SCC
- 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!
- 2025-05-24 ROS Meetup in Lagos, Nigeria
- 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
- 2025-06-04 NYC ROS Meetup at New York Tech Week!
- 2025-06-10 Autonomous Grand Challenge 2025 @ ICCV & IROS
- 2025-06-14 LeRobot Worldwide Hackathon
- 2025-06-25 ROS Meetup Belgium
- 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 Kaiju Swag Sale
- Future of OSU OSL in Jeopardy – The OSU OSL is our primary host for ROS resources!
- ROS-Industrial Roadmap Journey and a Path Forward
- ROS 2 PMC Meeting Minutes for April 29, 2025
- OSRA TGC meeting minutes for March, 2025
- Audrow Nash Podcast: How Are Investors Navigating the Wild Frontier of Robotics Startups?
- ROS-Industrial Consortium Americas 2025 Annual Meeting
- First ROS Meetup in Belgium
- RAS Events at IEEE ICRA 2025
- Arts in Robotics at ICRA 2025
- XLeRobot: Practical Household Dual-Arm Mobile Robot for ~$660
- Hugging Face releases a 3D-printed robotic arm starting at $100
- Weekly Robotics #310
- Durin digs up $3.4M to automate drills for critical minerals exploration
- Toyota, Waymo consider joint development of self-driving passenger vehicles
- BurgerBots opens restaurant with ABB robots preparing fast food – video
- Glacier brings in $16M and announces new Recology King deployment
- PickNik demoing latest version of MoveIt Pro at Robotics Summit
- Locus Robotics surpasses 5B picks with its warehouse automation
- Robot Videos: Extreme Terrain Quadruped, Humanoids, and More
- A16Z: How to Build ChatGPT for Robotics
ROS
- Kilted Kaiju Test and Tutorial Party Instructions
- ROS 2 Kilted Beta and Call for Testing
- ROSplat Online ROS 2 Based Gaussian Splatting-Enabled Visualizer
- Integrating ROS 2 with microcontrollers when using Zenoh
- Understanding the benefits and challenges for adopting behavior trees
- Java based ROS 2 controller for Dorna2 robotic arm
- Update REP-2017 prototype and executor using OS native threads
- Nav2 Enable Goal Orientation Flexibility in Smac Planners
- Learn ROS AI Robotics Integration with New Launched Logistics Kit
- Smart Turtle Powered by Behavior Trees, ROS2 & Groot!
- Eyegaze Characterization Tasks in ROS 2
- ROS 2 module to restrain collisions by scaling velocity to prohibit driving into obstacles
Securing ROS 2 Nodes with SROS2- ROS 2 IMU
- Cool online tool: VDA5050 LIF Editor
- Kinova Gen3 training in Isaac Lab, sim2real transfer and ROS deployment
- 46 New and 567 updated packages for ROS 2 Jazzy Jalisco
- Video: Gazebo Community Meeting: Monocular Depth-Based Synthetic DEM Generation
- Zero-Drift Point Cloud Mapping using Map Priors
- An Open-Source Quadruped Robot with a Front-Mounted Gripper Inspired by Ant Morphology
- Dockerized ROS 2 stack for the WATonomous Autonomous Driving Software Pipeline – video
- ROS 2 Model Context Protocol Server
- Automated Behavior Planning for Fruit Tree Pruning via Redundant Robot Manipulators – video
- Unity / ROS 2 Robot Simulator - sample
Got a Minute? 
It was a really busy week this week! The core team was mostly occupied getting the Kilted Beta out the door. I have three issues from the ROS / Gazebo PMC meetings where we would appreciate the community pitching in some developement time.
