ROS News for the Week of February 24th, 2025
Join us on 2025-03-10T08:00:00Z for our first ever Open-RMF Community Forum. The Open-RMF core development team wants to meet with the community and discuss the future of the project.
Want a better way to build realistic Gazebo worlds? Check out this Gazebo terrain generator that can use digital elevation maps (DEMs) and images to build Gazebo worlds.
Our friends over at the Le Robot team have released their own low-cost mobile manipulator.
Sometimes it is the little wins! Our friend @RobotDreams has a working example of a TurtleBot4 navigating around their home using a Raspberry Pi 5.
Do you need a simple URDF model for Gazebo? Check out this new wizard that automates the process of making simple robot models.
Events
- 2025-03-03 Cracow Robotics & AI Club #10
- 2025-03-10
Open-RMF: Community Forum - 2025-03-11 ROS-Industrial Training (Americas)
- 2025-03-19 NVIDIA GTC Physical AI Developer Meetup (must have a GTC ticket to register).
- 2025-03-17 ==> 2025-03-21 ROS / Robotics Sessions at GTC
- 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
- OSRA TGC meeting minutes for January, 2025
- Rover Robotics Joins the OSRA!
- How To Participate in the OpenCV / Intrinsic Bin Picking Challenge
- Survey: Behavior Tree Interpretability
- @audrow on what happens when robotics experts gather in secret?
- ETH Zurich Robotics Summer School
- Call for Papers: IEEE RAS Special Collections
- FreeCAD’s 2024 Annual Report
- ROBORACER @ ICRA 2025
- ARM Institute releases special call for robotics
- Why the future of robotics isn’t necessarily humanoid
- Humanoid robots promise a multi-trillion-dollar market, but pose challenges
- Nomagic picks up $44M for its AI-powered robotic arms
- Robot Videos: Shape Shifting and Humanoids Getting Up, and More
- NAES and Gecko Robotics make $100M deal to modernize U.S. power grid with robots, AI
- Diligent Robotics CEO discusses road to 1M hospital deliveries, future Moxi destinations
- KiCad Conference North America 2025 Announcement
- Robot Videos: Shape Shifting and Humanoids Getting Up, and More
- New Clearpath Husky A300 Robot
ROS
- Requesting feedback: new for-loop action for ROS 2 launch files to repeat entities
- C++/Python Behavior Trees for Robot Manipulators (Looking for Feedback and Tips)
- New Tutorial Examples: TurtleBot3 Patrol Control & Interactive Marker Control!
- TurtleBot3 Multi-Robot Example Added!
Get Your Robot Logs as Pandas DataFrames with Roboto SDK- Big Deal: A TurtleBot4 Went To The Kitchen
- Allow for more complex joints in URDF?
- ROS Aerial Robotics Group Meeting 2025-02-20 on Video
- Automate the process of making a URDF for your mobile robot using a Wizard: Mobile Robot URDF Maker V. 2
- Omnivision - 360° Camera and LiDAR Fusion
- Japanese: Self-driving sensors can be disabled from long distance vulnerability
- MASt3R-SLAM: Real-Time Dense SLAM with 3D Reconstruction Priors
- Gazebo Community Meeting Video: mesh2gazebo
- Dynamixel Workbench Release 2.1.0
- LeKiwi - Low-Cost Mobile Manipulator
- ICRA 2025: Train Your own Dancing Dog Robot
- CrossOver: 3D Scene Cross-Modal Alignment
- CPP Con: C++/Rust Interop: A Practical Guide to Bridging the Gap Between C++ and Rust
- Fraunhofer Universal calibration toolbox
- Gazebo Terrain Generator from Images (work in progress)
- Henki Robotics on Path Planning
- ROS Industrial easy_perception_deployment
- ROS Industrial easy_manipulation_deployment
- ROS 2 Tutorials Videos on YouTube
- Lichtblick Suite: an integrated visualization and diagnosis tool for robotics
- Waypoint and planner tools for ROS 2 with minimal dependencies.
Got a Minute? 
We could really use some help over in the ROS documentation!
This week someone pointed out that you can use Ament CMake to automatically set environment variables for your robot. This feature is really handy for things like configuring your RMW settings or your Gazebo simulation. The feature has existed for some time, but since it is undocumented people rarely use it. We would really appreciate it if someone would write the docs for it. We’ve got a couple of example use cases so writing the documentation should only take an hour or two. 