ROS News for the Week of December 30th, 2024 / 2025 
@rkent has been working diligently for months on a whole host of pull requests to improve ROS Index and the ROS 2 documentation process. He is currently seeking feedback on experimental tools in ROS Index. Please take a moment to take a look at his work and offer your feedback!
Earlier in December Automatic Addison published a lovely tutorial on tuning Nav2.
This week our colleagues at RT released a Jazzy version of their RaspiMouse robot. If you are looking for a smaller form factor educational robot it is worth checking out!
Aditya Nair, a graduate student at Northwestern, has a fantastic blog post about data-driven control for agile flight in a confined space. Aditya used a commercial robot bird toy, an Opti-track motion capture system, ROS 2 Humble, and an Arduino, to make it possible to fly the drone safely indoors. video
Happy New Year!
I have some bonus turtle content for this week. Here is a happy family of Florida Red Bellied Cooters I saw in the Everglades this week.
Events
- 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
- Rodney Brooks: Predictions Scorecard, 2025 January 01 – Rodney Brooks
- These 55 robotics companies are hiring
- AgiBot releases humanoid manipulation dataset to enable large-scale learning - Dataset
- Robot Makers Almanac is live!
- Zebra Technologies to acquire vision unit from Photoneo Brightpick Group
- Open Droids develops both single and dual arm mobile manipulators
- Nvidia’s CES 2025 keynote: How to watch
- CES 2025: What to expect from the year’s first and biggest tech show
- Watch this four-legged robot adapt to tricky situations like an animal
- 3D Model of “Virtual International Space Station (ISS)”
ROS
- New static archives for ROS and Gazebo Answers
- Package discovery - experimental tools in rosindex, and request for experiences
- New packages for ROS 2 Rolling Ridley
- Ros2cd - a complete roscd replacement in ros2
- ROS 2 node for Raspberry Pi Mouse
- Automatic Addison: ROS 2 Navigation Tuning Guide
- World Magnetic Model 2025 released (and WMM2020 ending very soon!)
- I’ve set up an Awesome-micro-ROS-projects
- Embedded Development in Rust
- New packages and patch release 3 for Jazzy Jalisco 2024-12-23
- Looking for Repositories on Disease Detection and Targeted Spraying
- Flexibility in RMW Zenoh: Switching Between Zenoh-CPP and Zenoh Pico Backends
- Autonomous Mapping and Navigation Using SLAM Toolbox, Nav2, Gazebo, and Rviz Visualization
- BALM: An efficient and consistent bundle adjustment for lidar mapping - paper
- Creating a controller for 4 wheeled swerve robot
- A Modular Optimization framework for Localization and mApping (MOLA) – paper
- Visualize ros 2d map as 3d map in web in realtime
- WAM-V Simulation for ROS 2 Jazzy + Gazebo Harmonic
- Data-Driven Control for Agile Flight in a Confined Space | Aditya Nair – video
- Python Code examples for Robotics, Vision & Control 3rd edition in Python
- GenHMR: Generative Human Mesh Recovery
- Gaussian Process-based Traversability Analysis for Terrain Mapless Navigation (ICRA 2024)
- GLC: Semantic Graph-Guided Coarse-Fine-Refine Full Loop Closing for LiDAR SLAM
- rt-net/crane_x7_ros at humble-devel
- Julia Robotics Resources
- Representing 3D sparse map points and lines for camera relocalization
- Python sample code and documents about Autonomous vehicle control algorithm
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