ROS News for the Week of January 6th, 2025
Our next ROS By-The-Bay will be on 2025-01-30 @tomoyafujita and @Yadunund will be on hand to talk about the new Zenoh RMW and
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CES was this week and there were quite a few new developments in the world of robotics. The image above is of a water quality monitoring robot from a new company called Beatbot. My personal favorite was this new prototype IR touch sensor from Thinker robotics. Our friends at the Indy Autonomous Challenge were competing at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway all week. I’ve collected a bunch of CES related articles in the news section.
Our friends over at PicNick have put together a fantastic resource that lists every robot arm that is ROS compatible along with detailed information about the ROS package that supports the hardware. I suggest book marking this webpage!
Check out this amazing plugin that allows you to import your Nav2 maps directly into Gazebo. This is a super tool for anyone working on Nav2 development,
@audrow has released a new podcast episode. In this episode he interviews a bunch of interesting attendees from ROSCon 2024 in Denmark.
A research team over at University of Cardiff have released a Gazebo simulation for the popular Stretch Robot by Hello Robot. The sim works with ROS 2 Humble and modern Gazebo (Harmonic).
Events
- 2025-01-13 ROS 2 Rust Meeting: January 2025
- 2025-01-13 Cloud Robotics WG Meeting
- 2025-01-14 ROS-I Developers Meeting
- 2025-01-30 ROS By-The-Bay January 2025
- 2025-02-27 Zürich Robotics Meetup
- 2025-02-01 FOSDEM 25 – See Robotics and Sim Room
- 2025-02-04 => 2025-02-06 World FIRA Ag Robotics Conference in Toulouse, France
- 2025-04-28 International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering
- 2025-05-30 => 2025-05-31 2025 Open Hardware Summit in Edinburgh
News
- New static archives for ROS and Gazebo Answers
- Building AI Platforms from Open Source Ideals Feat. Brian Gerkey
- ROSCon 2024 Highlights: Conversations with Dexory, Asimovo, and ZettaScale Sense Think Act Podcast
- Intel spinning out RealSense as standalone company
- Aditya Kamath 2024: A year in review
Indy Autonomous Challenge @ CES 2025- Best Robotics Conferences and Events to Attend in 2025
- Xocean raises $119M to capture ocean data with uncrewed surface vessels
- Boston Dynamics settles patent suit with military robotics firm Ghost – Robot Report
- Meet Mirumi: an adorable robot that sits on your purse, from CES 2025
This pool cleaning company made a robot turtle to track water quality- Watch this robot vacuum pick up your dirty socks at CES 2025
- Serve Robotics raises additional $80M as it scales sidewalk delivery robots
- This fuzzy, purse-mounted robot is designed to ‘delight bystanders’
- Roborock’s Roomba competitor gets a robot arm
- These 55 robotics companies are hiring
- Hexagon acquiring GNSS provider Septentrio
- Pollen Robotics debuts Reachy 2 humanoid at CES 2025
- Simbe launches Tally Spot, a fixed area camera
- Robotics investments top $7.4B in October 2024
- Wybot S3 Pool Cleaning Robot Announced at CES 2025
- Video Friday
- CES 2025 Keynote with NVIDIA Founder and CEO, Jensen Huang
- CES 2025 - Isaac ROS 3.2 and platform updates
- Roborock debuts a robot vacuum with a robotic arm at CES
ROS
- Extensive list of robot arms, and more, compatible with ROS 2
- Visualize your custom messages on RViz!
- The ros2_control concept explained for beginners
- heightmap_spawner: A ROS 2 Package that Builds Gazebo Worlds from Nav2 Maps
- Hello Robot Stretch Sim in Gazebo
- Mesh2gazebo: Building a simulator environment using mesh data of 3D Scan Application
- Rahal Robot Example – from Arabian ROS meetup
- How many hardware brands have good ROS 2 Drivers?
- rmw_zenoh binaries for Rolling, Jazzy and Humble
- Test a 6-DOF Robotic Arm Sorting Station Case in ROS 2
- Ros2cd - a complete roscd replacement in ROS 2
- Best Robotics Platform for development and demos
- RobotCAD 5 - Sense released! (sensors and ROS 2 Jazzy)
- How do you monitor your robot diagnostics (topic rates)?
- Python example program of 1D position and velocity estimation by Kalman filter
- DHP-Mapping: A Dense Panoptic Mapping System with Hierarchical World Representation and Label Optimization Techniques
- HPHS: Hierarchical Planning based on Hybrid Frontier Sampling for Unknown Environments Exploration
- Cloth-Splatting: 3D Cloth State Estimation from RGB Supervision.
- Vop2el: a fast and accurate stereo visual odometry algorithm
- Test a 6-DOF Robotic Arm Sorting Station Case in ROS2
- roslibrust: An async first rust client for ROS supporting multiple backends: ROS 1, rosbridge, and Zenoh.
- Drift-free Visual SLAM using Digital Twins
- TurtleBot 3 Demo repository
- U-MPPI: ROS package for autonomous navigation of AGVs in unknown cluttered environments using U-MPPI - paper
Got a Minute? 
I am looking for two people (C++ / Python) to help write a very simple addition for the documentation of ROS 2 parameters.