ROS News for the Week of January 27th, 2025
It finally happened, ROS 2 now runs Doom now!
Gazebo Classic goes End-Of-Life today! We need a few more days to push out the final updates, but those should be out next week. The good news is that if you are using Gazebo Classic and Nav2 there is now a full upgrade guide! (Thanks @smac and crew, we really appreciate this!)
Are you a ROS 2 user that misses ROSMon? Check out this beta release of ROS 2 Launch GUI. This new utility will let you interactively launch and monitor your ROS 2 application.
ROSCon JP 2025 has been announced! ROSConJP will happen September 9th, in Nagoya!
Events
- 2025-02-01 FOSDEM 25 – See Robotics and Sim Room
- 2025-02-03 ROS Deliberation Community Group Meeting - Feb 3, 2025
- 2025-02-04 => 2025-02-06 World FIRA Ag Robotics Conference in Toulouse, France
- 2025-02-05 Bots & Beer Is Back Baby!
- 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
- 2025-04-28 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
News
- Google Summer of Code - Call for Mentors
- Intermodalics: Proud to be joining the Open Source Robotics Alliance!
- FOSDEM 2025 Robotics Devroom Schedule
- ROSConJP 2025 Announced
- Top 10 robotics developments of January 2025
- Shadow Robot DEX-EE hand takes manipulation to next level
- Miso Robotics refines Flippy Fry Station with AI and partners
- Ambi Robotics built a clever solution to automate pallet packing
- 10 technologies to avoid when building a robot
ROS
- It finally happened: DOOM ROS
- New Packages for Noetic 2025-01-30
- Nav2 New (Modern) Gazebo Getting Started Guide!
- Rosbag2 to pcd converter/exporter
- Announcing Ros2TraceAnalyzer: Fast tool to analyze and visualize timing of ROS 2 applications
- Next ROS Medical talk announced! space x medical robotics
- Impending removal of the Windows Debug CI job and packages
- ROS 2 launch GUI
- Mitsubishi Electric ROS2 Community Discussion
- Announcing transAct: An open-source robot fleet management dashboard template
- Community meeting: Migration of Stretch robot to Gazebo Sim Harmonic
- Tightly-coupled LiDAR-IMU-wheel odometry with an online neural kinematic model learning via factor graph optimization - ScienceDirect
- ICRA 2025 Gaussian-LIC: Real-Time Photo-Realistic SLAM with Gaussian Splatting and LiDAR-Inertial-Camera Fusion
- OpenCV: Object Insertion in Gaussian Splatting
- An unofficial open source implentation of CSIRO’s Wildcat SLAM.
- FOSDEM 2025 - Eclipse Zenoh: Understanding the Protocol and its Potential in Robotic
- Autonomous Vehicle Control Beginners Guide
- FFMPEG Assembly Language Lessons
- DynoSAM: Dynamic Object Smoothing and Mapping for Dynamic SLAM
- A Software Stack for Autonomous Racing on Oval and Road Course Tracks
- Underwater Networks – SIGNET Research Group
- An async first Rust client for ROS supporting multiple backends: ROS 1, rosbridge, and Zenoh.
Want to Mentor a Student?
We are now looking for Google Summer of Code mentors for ROS and Gazebo. We need FOSS developers who are willing to spend this summer helping students learn our trade. See the post above for more details.