ROS News for the Week of February 10th, 2025
Our friends at ros-controls have joined the OSRA family of projects. Welcome to the team @bmagyar, @christophfroehlich, @destogl and @saikishor!
There is now a dark theme configuration for RViz / RViz2!
Our colleague @sAmUko has released the MoboBot Robot. It looks like a really well put together educational robot using ROS 2 and Gazebo.
Check out this really cool LLM-based CLI utility for creating simulation worlds. The entire Gazebo team was really impressed with this project. Here’s a Discourse post on the project that went up right after I posted the news
Events
- 2025-02-12 Embodied AI Community Group #4
- 2025-02-11 Zenoh Advanced Features Workshop w/ Zettascale – Calendar Invite
- 2025-02-19 DroneCode South California Meetup #1
- 2025-02-20 Aerial Robotics meeting
- 2025-02-21 Nav2 / ROS Bangalore Meet Up
- 2025-02-22 Pan-African Robotics Competition Deadline
- 2025-02-22 ROS Meetup Lagos, Nigeria
- 2025-02-27 ROS Meetup Barcelona
- 2025-02-27 Zürich Robotics Meetup
- 2025-04-28 International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering
- 2025-04-30 Robotics Summit & Expo wsg @gbiggs.
- 2025-05-15 ROS-Industrial Consortium Americas 2025 Annual Meeting Detroit
- 2025-05-23 ICRA 2025 Advancing Quantitative and QUAlitative SIMulators for marine applications
- 2025-05-30 => 2025-05-31 2025 Open Hardware Summit in Edinburgh
News
ros-controls Joins the OSRA Family of Projects- Meet @mjcarroll, your interim ROS Project Lead
- ROS PMC meeting minutes 2025-02-11
- Indy Autonomous Challenge RACECAR DATA set
- Drone Code Newsletter
- How Smell Could Transform Robotics: The Next Frontier in Sensing
- Dronecode hits $1 billion in project value
- Zetta Radio: A Journey from Smart Cities to Robotics and Beyond with Zenoh
ICRA 2025 Travel Support- Video Roundup
- Robot Cameras at the Superbowl – I suspect they run ROS.
- Topcon Agriculture teams up with Bonsai Robotics on precision farming - The Robot Report
- SAEKI raises $6.7M to scale robots for manufacturing
- Carbon Robotics’ LaserWeeder G2 destroys weeds even faster
- Avride launches sidewalk delivery bots on Uber Eats in Jersey City | TechCrunch
- Apptronik, which makes humanoid robots, raises $350M as category heats up | TechCrunch
- A Roboticist Visits FOSDEM 2025
ROS
ROSCon India 2024 Videos on YouTube- Upcoming switch of Windows installation to pixi/conda
- New packages for Humble Hawksbill 2025-02-14
- New Packages for Noetic
- New Packages for Jazzy Jalisco 2025-02-10
A dark theme configuration for RViz/RViz2- ROSCon JP Call for Workshops
- Useful Tool for Calculating Rotations
LLM-based CLI utility for simulation worlds creation.- New MoboBot Robot Documentation
- ROS 2: use_sim_time leads to inconsistent clocks
- Additional levels in DiagnosticStatus
- RobotCAD 6 - Reforged released!
- Elevator pitch for vcstool alternative
- Type hinting for ROS 2 Python messages
- Useful ROS Easily Connect Controller and Real Cobot
- Announcing ROS 2 Easy Mode
- Drive UR Dual-Arm Robots in ROS RViz with Our Own Arms
- Tool extensions for ros2bag cli
- A simple, but powerful UI toolset for various ROS 2 utilities
- Open Duck Mini: Making a mini version of the BDX droid
- A Tale of Two Formulas: Benchmarking the Nav2 AMCL Likelihood Field Sensor Model
- HiPeRT-Lab’s Roboracer autonomous racing stack
- Articulated Robotics: How to make custom Gazebo worlds for your robot
- Rotation Calculator from Articulated Robotics
- nomeer_robot_ros2: Autonomous Mobile Robot
- Bridging the Gap: Writing Portable C++ Programs for CPU and GPU CppCon 2024
- List of Visual re-Localization Algorithms
- Ardupilot Log inspection with PlotJuggler
- How to bridge communication across different ROS 2 domains
- GNSS/INS/Camera Integrated Navigation Library
- Tier4 Umber DDS
- Present and Future of SLAM in Extreme Environments
- TKG Ball Catching Robot
- PaTS-Wheel: A Passively-Transformable Single-Part Wheel for Mobile Robot Navigation
- Performance Optimization in Software Development - Being Friendly to Your Hardware
- MAGICVFM-Meta-Learning Adaptation for Ground Interaction Control With Visual Foundation Models
- Oxford Spires Dataset
- Multi robot launch in Gazebo and multi robots control with namespace
- A GNSS/INS Integrated Navigation System with a Wheel-mounted IMU
Got a Minute 
We had two items this week that are looking for feedback.