ROS News for the Week of January 20th, 2025
We have three different ROS events scheduled next week and we would love for you to join us!
- 2025-01-29 ROS / OpenCV Meetup @ Photonics West SF
- 2025-01-29 Gazebo Community Meeting
- 2025-01-30 ROS By-The-Bay January 2025
I don’t have a great image for this item, Zig doesn’t have a fancy mascot like Rust
, but I want to call your attention to ZigROS, a way to build ROS with the zig build system.
LG has acquired a majority share of Bear Robotics. Bear Robotics builds food delivery robots for restaurants and they have been ROS users for years. Additional reporting on the acquisition at TechCrunch
Thanks to the hard work of @rkent ROS Index has a number of new improvements, including faster search, an updated UI, extending search to read me files, and a whole lot more. @rkent has been working on these pull requests for a long time and we really appreciate his patience and determination. 
Events
- 2025-01-28 Space ROS Club Japan
- 2025-01-29 ROS / OpenCV Meetup @ Photonics West SF
- 2025-01-29 Gazebo Community Meeting – Stretch Robot Simulation in Harmonic
- 2025-01-30 ROS By-The-Bay January 2025
- 2025-02-01 FOSDEM 25 – See Robotics and Sim Room
- 2025-02-04 => 2025-02-06 World FIRA Ag Robotics Conference in Toulouse, France
- 2025-02-05 Bots & Beer Is Back Baby!
- 2025-02-12 Embodied AI Community Group #4
- 2025-02-11 Zenoh Advanced Features Workshop w/ Zettascale – Calendar Invite
- 2025-02-27 Zürich Robotics Meetup
- 2025-04-28 International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering
- 2025-05-30 => 2025-05-31 2025 Open Hardware Summit in Edinburgh
News
- Clearpath Robotics Reaffirms Commitment to TurtleBot 4 Support
- Ati Motors brings in $20M to expand presence in the U.S., APAC – TechCrunch
- LG Acquires Majority Stake in Bear Robotics to Bolster Robotics Capabilities – TechCrunch
- Video Friday
- MoveIt Pro 7.0 is Released – Robot Report
- MassRobotics opens applications for 2025 Form and Function Robotics Challenge
- Primech AI improves HYTRON cleaning robot performance with NVIDIA tech
- CES 2025 recap: Noteworthy robots at this year’s show
- Meta’s Yann LeCun predicts ‘new paradigm of AI architectures’ within 5 years and ‘decade of robotics’
- Call for Applications: IEEE/IFR Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award 2025
- FOSDEM 2025 Robotics Devroom Schedule
- ROS-I Developers Meeting
- Robot Assisted Knee Surgery
- Building a backbone for a scalable way to roll out robotics software
- Audrow Nash Podcast: Advancing Robot Hardware Innovation through ARIA’s New UK Research Initiative
- FOSDEM 2025 - Robotics and Simulation
- IEEE ICRA 2025 registration now open
ROS
- ROS2 + micros-ros control design, where to run what
- Announcing transAct: An open-source robot fleet management dashboard template
Announcing ZigROS! build ROS with the zig build system- Griswald Brooks: Robotics Simulation for better Development
- ROS 1 to ROS 2 Migration
- Mitsubishi Electric ROS2 Community Discussion
- Video: Aerial Robotics Meeting - January 22nd 2025
- Guidance on Warehouse Automation Using OpenRMF and Conveyor Traffic Management - Multi-Robot Systems
- A library for inverse dynamics computation - where to contribute?
- Localization using only 2D LiDAR scan point clouds with deep learning techniques
- Nav2 Speedups in MPPI & Smac Planner
- New packages for Humble Hawksbill 2025-01-21
- New Packages for Jazzy Jalisco 2025-01-20
- Speeding up Python nodes with the Bit-Bots TF Buffer
- Customizable Template for Docker Environment Setup
- Development of a user-friendly ROS 2 GTK4 GUI with Adwaita theme
- Controller for 4 wheeled swerve robot
- Visualize 2D ROS Map in 3D on the web
- Dear RosNodeViewer: Visualize ROS 2 Node Graph – docs
- Learning-Based On-Track System Identification for Scaled Autonomous Racing in Under a Minute – source
- Mujoco Playground
- OpenYOLO3D SOTA performance in Open Vocabulary 3D Instance Segmentation on ScanNet200 – paper
- A neuromechanics solution for adjustable robot compliance and accuracy
- Setting The Stage For Open Source Sonar Development
- ManiSkill-HAB A Benchmark for Low-Level Manipulation in Home Rearrangement Tasks
- Learning-based Kinematic Model Trained Online along with LiDAR-IMU-Wheel Odometry on a Factor Graph
- Tightly-Coupled LiDAR-IMU-Wheel Odometry with an Online Neural Kinematic Model Learning via Factor Graph Optimization
- Bracket Bot
- micro-ROS with an ESP32 board - publish Wi-Fi scan data and a service.
- Robotics Class Is Open on Hackaday
- RMW Zenoh Workshop
- pySLAM SLAM pipeline updates
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