ROS News for the Week of December 23rd, 2024 
Last week I may have said I wouldn’t be impressed with a robot Christmas video until I see a robot wrap a present. It appears Acumino delivered (just like Santa 
). See this video and a ton of other great holiday robot videos in our Robotics Christmas Videos 2024 thread.
The OSRA is wrapping up it’s first year (actually 8 months) of operation. @gbiggs put together an OSRA activity recap for 2024.
The OSRA’s next big task is reforming our ROS Enhancement Proposal process and we really could use some feedback from the community,
Just in time for the holidays Duatic AG has released a new robot, the DynaArm, that supports ROS 2 out of the box. Source code available here.
A few weeks ago @abaeyens lent the ROS core team a hand by writing some fantastic documentation for ROS 2 integration testing. This week he’s back with a new prototype / proof of concent tool to run ROS 2 integration tests in parallel called testjob_coordinator. Testing may not produce exciting robot videos, but it is really important, and this new tool could save a lot of us a lot of valuable time!
Events
- 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
- OSRA activity recap for 2024
- What is in scope for an ROS Enhancement Proposal (REP)?
- Random appreciation thread
- Robotics Christmas Videos 2024
- RSS 2025 Conference CFP
- Book: Code examples for Robotics, Vision & Control 3rd edition in Python
- The Robotics Club on YouTube
- Watch Boston Dynamics’ electric Atlas do a backflip
- Watch this robotic ‘Superman Suit’ rotate around a gymnastics bar
- Top 10 most popular robotics stories of 2024
- Pudu Robotics launches PUDU D9 humanoid robot
- How Waste Robotics, Greyparrot are enhancing sorting robots
- New research analyzes safety of Waymo robotaxis
- Video Friday
- DeepDataSpace | Unleashing the Power of Cutting-Edge Computer Vision Technology
- How I built a robot in my studio during WFH — under $300
ROS
- Nav2 example with (Ignition) Gazebo Fortress
- New Robot in the ROS 2 world. The DynaArm by Duatic AG – Source Code
FFMpeg Lessons on Assembly- Localization-only mode in ROS 2 API of mola_lidar_odometry
testjob_coordinator: a parallel integration test runner PoC- cactus-rt: A C++ framework for programming real-time applications
- ROS 2 Navigation Tuning Guide
- MOLA-LO: Build a map and then localize — MOLA v1.5.0 documentation
- Open Robot Control Framework (Japanese)
- Community interest in a Vector Field Histogram global path planning algorithm
- How do you monitor your robot diagnostics (topic rates)?
- REUSE compatibility vs multi-package repo
- Recording: Aerial Robotics meeting - Duckiedrone - Nov 20 2024
- Recording: Aerial Robotics meeting - Xmas with Bitcraze - Dec 18 2024
- IROS 2024 I2EKF-LO: A Dual-Iteration Extended Kalman Filter based LiDAR Odometry
- Start developing comfortable AI robots with the robot simulator Genesis x ROS 2 (Japanese)
- ROS ffmpeg_image_transport (Japanese)
- Dockerfile to use ROS 2 on KDE Plasma Desktop container with NVIDIA GPU
- Cascade LifeCycle: A Convenient Building Block for Efficient Robot Software Architectures
- Speech-to-Text based on SileroVAD + whisper.cpp (GGML Whisper) for ROS 2
- ros2_whill_applications
- Raspberry Pi x ROS SLAM robot development (Japanese)
- Code for “Dynamic 3D Gaussian Tracking for Graph-Based Neural Dynamics Modeling” (CoRL 2024)
- Video: Robotics Teaching and Software Architecture with @fmrico
- LRAE: Large-Region-Aware Safe and Fast Autonomous Exploration of Ground Robots for Uneven Terrains, RA-L, 2024
- Space ROS at ROSCon JP 2024!
- Some toy examples to demonstrate threading in
rclpy. - Robot Manipulation with Flow Matching
Got a Minute? 
There are literally hundreds of ROS 2 repositories that have pull requests that need a review! Anyone in the ROS community can do a review, and we need second reviewers to get pull requests out the door. Please lend your expertise to the project! Even a quick scan and a LGTM is helpful.