ROS News for the Week of December 15th, 2024
It is that time of year! Time for robot holiday videos! IEEE Spectrum has a full run down. I particularly like the Clearpath Robotics’ video that features multiple TB4 lites acting as elves.
New tutorial alert. We just released an official tutorial for the ament lint CLI utilities. If you are not using these tools to clean up your code, you should be!
SOAR is the OG of classic AI! This week we learned about a new package to
connect SOAR and ROS 2.
This week a team at MIT released ROMAN an open-set object mapping / global localization package along with a ROS 2 wrapper.
Everyone is talking about it! This week a team of 18 universities plus NVIDIA released Genesis, a generative world for general-purpose robotics & embodied AI learning. The early demos look impressive. You can learn more at the project page.
Events
- 2024-12-22 Open Hardware Summit CFP Deadline
- 2024-12-27 ROS Japan UG #57 ROS Year-End LT Event
- 2024-12-31 Deadline for Natural Robotics Contest
- 2025-01-08 ROS Embodied AI Community Group
- 2025-02-01 FOSDEM 25 – See Robotics and Sim Room
- 2025-02-04 => 2025-02-06 World FIRA Ag Robotics Conference in Toulouse, France
- 2025-04-28 International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering
- 2025-05-30 => 2025-05-31 2025 Open Hardware Summit in Edinburgh
News
- ROS PMC meeting minutes 2024-12-17
- Nav2 Community Meeting - Renewed for 2025
- Slip Robotics picks up $28M for trailer loading/unloading robots
- Jetson Orin Nano Super developer kit available from NVIDIA
- Eureka Robotics raises $10.5M to scale its vision systems in the U.S.
- ROSCon Spain 2024 Report
- Aerial Robotics meeting - Xmas with Bitcraze
- Robot Holiday Videos - IEEE Spectrum
- Zen and the Art of Aibo Engineering
- Symbotic buys healthcare robot maker OhmniLabs
- Mcity says open-source digital twin enables cheaper autonomous vehicle testing
- Global Robot Density in Factories Doubled in Seven Years - What’s the impact of ROS?
- Red Rabbit Robotics offers human-like robots as a service - The Register
- Call for Proposals: Arts in Robotics at ICRA’25
- Call for Application IEEE IERA Award
- Genesis: A generative world for general-purpose robotics & embodied AI learning.
- Open Source Hardware Certifications for November 2024
- VDA5050 in Japanese
- ScanNet++ Dataset
- HO-Cap: A Capture System and Dataset for 3D Reconstruction and Pose Tracking of Hand-Object Interaction
- Diverse Terrain and Multi-modal Dataset for Multi-Robot Navigation in Multi-session Outdoor Environments
- Podcast: Making Robot Arms Work Anywhere - with PickNik
ROS
Ament Lint CLI Utilities Tutorial
- Time to give your magnetometers a big refresh!
- New packages for Humble Hawksbill 2024-12-20
- New Packages for Noetic 2024-12-19
- Teknic ClearPath-SC ros2_control Hardware Interface
- How do I use Safe DDS with ROS2 and Why?
- ROS 2 Visualization Tools for Architecture
ROMAN: ROS 2 open-set object mapping / global localization code release
Soar_ros: Connecting Soar and ROS 2 as a single ROS Package
- Safe DDS Achieves ISO 26262 ASIL D Certification
- Introduction to Robot Manipulation and Navigation – University of Texas at Dallas
- MASt3R-SLAM: Real-Time Dense SLAM with 3D Reconstruction Priors
- MATLAB toolkit for generating URDF
- RoboVLMs: What Matters in Building Vision-Language-Action Models for Generalist Robot Policies
- ECCV 2024 Better Call SAL: Towards Learning to Segment Anything in Lidar
- Reference implementation of mROS 2 for ESP32 boards
Raspberry Pi Mouse ROS 2 package has been released
- Package for Path Planning and Tracking created using ROS 2
- Marigold-DC: Zero-Shot Monocular Depth Completion with Guided Diffusion
- Python sample codes and documents about Autonomous vehicle control algorithm
- Official implementation of αLiDAR: An Adaptive High-Resolution Panoramic LiDAR System
- CARLA 0.10.0 Release with Unreal Engine 5.5
- Python implementation of mpc controller for path tracking
- Real-time dense scene reconstruction with SLAM3R
- Unitree RL Gym
- RAL24: Semantic Graph-Guided Coarse-Fine-Refine Full Loop Closing for LiDAR SLAM
- ROBOTIS-OP3-Common jazzy-devel
- NIDS-Net: A unified framework for novel instance detection and segmentation
- Robust model predictive control for path tracking with obstacle avoidance
- Extending the Robustness of LiDAR SLAM to Geometrically Degenerate Scenarios
- SIMD-Accelerated Sampling-based Motion Planning
- Very fast motion planning for articulated robot (C++ core with Python bindings)
- Python implementation of an automatic parallel parking system
- IROS’24 Simultaneous Exploration and Photographing with Heterogeneous UAVs for Fast Autonomous Reconstruction
- Example repository for autonomous behaviors using TurtleBot robots and behavior trees
- Micro ROS and Web UI with ROS 2 and Jetson Orin
- Conformal Off-Policy Prediction for Multi-Agent Systems
Got a Minute?

It is the holidays and everyone has some extra free time. Why not give the gift of open source and review a pull request or fix an issue in ROS 2?