ROS News for the Week of February 3rd, 2025
I am happy to announce that we have firm dates for ROSCon 2025 in Singapore
!ROSCon 2025 will be held on 2025-10-26T16:00:00Z→2025-10-28T16:00:00Z. We should have the website up by the end of the month.
Gazebo Classic is officially end-of-life. You can read all about it over on the Robot Report. Our friends over at Articulated Robotics have a great video on how you can create your own custom worlds using modern Gazebo.
Space ROS Jazzy 2025.01.0 has been released!
We get a lot of questions about multi-robot systems in the Discord. I came across this fantastic open-source project out of Polytechnique Montreal called, “A Multi-Robot Exploration Planner for Space Applications” that is a great guide to building your first multi-robot system.
Events
- 2025-02-07 Bracket Bot Hackathon
- 2025-02-12 Embodied AI Community Group #4
- 2025-02-11 Zenoh Advanced Features Workshop w/ Zettascale – Calendar Invite
- 2025-02-22 Pan-African Robotics Competition Deadline
- 2025-02-27 Zürich Robotics Meetup
- 2025-03-11 ==> 2025-03-13 ROS-Industrial Training (Americas) March 2025
- 2025-05-18 Maritime Community Group Meeting Feb 2025: Mecatron UnitySim for underwater robotics
- 2025-04-28 International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering
- 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
- 2025-10-27 => 2025-10-29 ROSCon 2025 in Singapore – ROS Calendar Link
News
- Gazebo Classic Reaches End of Life
- Google Summer of Code - Call for Mentors
New TGC Members elected for 2025- OSRA TGC meeting minutes for December, 2024
- Bonsai Robotics Raises $15 Million to Help Combat Farm Labor Shortage – The Robot Report
- Open-RMF: Community Forum
- ROS 2 Rust Meeting: February 2025
- Physical Intelligence open-sources Pi0 robotics foundation model
- Nauticus working with Leidos on underwater robots
- Teradyne robotics group lays off 10% of global staff
- Meta is studying how humans and robots can collaborate on housework
- SoCal Edison Tests REFCL Tech to Prevent LA Wildfires
- Indiegogo: Self-Driving Golf Trolley using ROS 2
- ELEGNT: Expressive and Functional Movement Design for Non-Anthropomorphic Robot
- A Roboticist Visits FOSDEM 2025
- IEEE ICRA 2025 Registration Now Open
ROS
Gazebo Classic 11 has reached end-of-life- Upcoming switch of Windows installation to pixi/conda
- Space ROS Jazzy 2025.01.0 Release
- ROS 2 Cheat Sheet
- py_trees_parser
- New packages for ROS 2 Rolling Ridley 2025-01-02
- ROS 2 launch GUI
- AutoAPMS: A unified software framework for creating behavior-based robotic applications
- The ros2_utils_tool, a full GUI toolkit for various ROS2 utilities with additional CLI support
- Vision-Only Robot Navigation in a Neural Radiance World
- Real-time Object Detection with NanoOWL on Jetson Orin Nano Super Devices
- Intrepid AI - All-in-one platform for autonomous robots
- ROS 2 Package to calculate the intrinsic and extrinsic camera calibration. Adding an easy way to fuse camera and lidars
- OpenCV: How To Participate in Intrinsic Bin Picking Challenge
- New Feature: Gazebo Visualize a Frustum
- Open Source at Physical-Intelligence
- Articulated Robotics: How to make custom Gazebo worlds for your robot
- Hackaday: Stepper Motor Operating Principle And Microstepping Explained
- A Python Library for Procedural Scene Generation in Robot Manipulation
- ToddlerBot: Open-Source ML-Compatible Humanoid Platform for Loco-Manipulation
- Palletizing ROS Robot
- Autonomous Mobile Robot simulation with Gazebo Fortress
- A Python library to facilitate interaction with Onshape’s REST API
- A flexible framework for accurate LiDAR odometry, map manipulation, and localization
- Insight: a minimalist GUI alternative to rqt
- A Multi-Robot Exploration Planner for Space Applications
- VLM-Vac Enhancing Smart Vacuums via VLM Knowledge Distillation and Language Guided Experience Replay – paper
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