ROS News for the Week of February 17th, 2025

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ROS News for the Week of February 17th, 2025

• TurtleBot3 Multi-Robot Example Added!

TurtleBot3 66 Multi-Robot Control with TurtleBot3

Events

• 2025-02-21 Nav2 / ROS Bangalore Meet Up

• 2025-02-22 Pan-African Robotics Competition Deadline

• 2025-02-22 ROS Meetup Lagos, Nigeria

• 2025-02-24 Cloud Robotics WG Meeting

• 2025-02-26 ROS 2 Easy Mode - Webinars

• 2025-02-26 Bridging ROS 2 with Simulink for Model-Based Design

• 2025-02-26 Gazebo Community Meeting: mesh2gazebo

• 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

• QR Code Vision Tracking: Machine Vision Intergeration Into ROS

• Raspberry Pi Mouse with Collision Avoidance

OSRA News

• Calendar: February 2025 TGC meeting scheduled on 27 Thu @ 15:00 UTC. Jan 2025 meeting minutes to be published after approval.

• ROS PMC Meeting Minutes 2025-02-18

• OSRF Board Chair and Intrinsic CTO Brian Gerkey discusses the convergence between ROS and the Intrinsic platform on ReAutomated with Christopher Savoia of Universal Robots.

• OSRA Gold Member Stogl Robotics expands reach in Europe and is now b>>robotized by Stogl Robotics

• Attend OSRA Gold Member Analog Devices’ webinar on Safety in Robotics: Real-Time Collision Avoidance Algorithms, including Integration with ROS Architecture

• OSRA Platinum Member NVIDIA is hosting GTC March 17th to 21st. If you’re going, there will be a Physical AI Developer Meetup on Wednesday, March 19, 2025 - 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. PDT RSVP here, and the NVIDIA team recommends these agenda items for ROS users. There’s also likely to be a ROS users meetup there.

ROS

• New packages for ROS 2 Rolling Ridley 2025-02-14

• GaussianRPG v2.0: the first open-source hardware-in-the-loop simulation system demo using 3D Gaussian Splatting tech

• Colcon package-of extension announced

Got a Minute

We had one item this week that are looking for feedback.

• Call for Feedback: Multi-threaded Executor Improvements