ROS News for the Week of July 7th, 2025
We’re planning to have a joint Open Robotics / OpenCV / OSHWA booth at Open Sauce in San Mateo next week. If you are attending please drop by! We’ve also organized an Open Source @ Open Sauce after party in San Francisco for Saturday, July 19th. All are welcome!
Our next ROS By-The-Bay meetup has been scheduled for July 24th, 2025. We’ve got some amazing speakers lined up.
Take a look at this new ROS 2 package for teleoperation
A team of roboticists at the University of Lincoln’s School of Engineering and Physical Science has released a standardized, open source hardware interface designed for the ROS 2 . Check out the paper in the Journal of Open Hardware.
Check out this interesting and potentially useful research on, “VisuoTactile Local (ViTaL) policies, an effective framework for precise, contact-rich manipulation that combines visuotactile learning, visual augmentation, and residual RL for highly robust, generalizable policies.”. It is worth noting there is currently a proposal to add a contact sensor to sensor messages.
Events
- 2025-07-14 ROS 2 Rust Meeting
- 2025-07-17 MoveIt Community Meeting for July
- 2025-07-19 Open Source @ Open Sauce after party
- 2025-07-19 => 2025-07-20 Joint Open Robotics / OpenCV / OSHWA booth at Open Sauce
- 2025-07-24 ROS By-The-Bay July 2025
- 2025-07-26 => 2025-08-01 ROS Summer School in China
- 2025-07-31 Canadian Robotics Council / ROS Meetup at Avidbots in Kitchner Ontario
- 2025-07-31 Tentative ROS / Dronecode Meetup in LA
- 2025-08-29 => 2025-09-05 ROS Summer School 2025 at FH Aachen
- 2025-09-09 ROSCon JP in Nagoya
- 2025-09-15 => 2025-09-17 Inaugral ROSCon UK in Edinburgh
- 2025-09-23 Foxglove Actuate Conference
- 2025-10-27 =>2025-10-30 ROSCon Singapore
- 2025-11-17 => 2025-11-20 Joint ROSCon Germany and France
News
- Changes to email functionality of Discourse
- ROS Japan Developer 会議
- Agenda for PMC Session 2025-07-15
- Cracow Robotics & AI Club #11
- Kilted Kaiju Swag Sale
- ROS PMC Minutes for July 1, 2025
- OpenCV 4.12.0 Is Now Available
- ROS 2 and cFS System (RACS2) Bridge software successfully demonstrated in orbit
- Announcing The Winners of the First Perception Challenge for Bin-Picking (BPC)
- Congratulations to OSRF Board Member Ryan Gariepy, Rockwell Automation’s new VP of Robotics!
- TRI: pretrained large behavior models accelerate robot learning
- Hugging Face launches Reachy Mini robot as embodied AI platform
- JAXA tests PickNik’s MoveIt Pro software in multi-armed robotic system for the ISS
- Saildrone completes NATO multi-domain demo in Baltic Sea
- Dusty Robotics designs FieldPrinter 2 robot with PMD motion controllers
- Luminous gets funding to bring LUMI solar construction robot to Australia
- Civ Robotics spots Series A funding for automated surveying
- Unitree becomes a legged robot unicorn with Series C funding
- RealSense spins out of Intel to scale its stereoscopic imaging technology
- Diligent Robotics hires two notable Cruise alumni to its leadership team
- Amazon deploys its 1 millionth robot, releases generative AI model
- Are We Missing the Real Value in Robotics? Practical Automation’s Hidden Impact
- The Future of Warehousing Starts Now: Meet Kinisi’s Autonomous Humanoid Robot
- Serially-Connected Soft Continuum Robots for Endovascular Emergencies - Video
- ROSConFr 2025 CFP
- Hugging Face opens up orders for its Reachy Mini desktop robots
ROS
New ROS 2 Package: ros2_teleoperation- SpatialTrackerV2: 3D Point Tracking Made Easy - Hugging Face
- Robotis: The Beginning of Physical AI Research YouTube- Open Manipulator - Physical AI Development Interface with LeRobot and ROS 2
- What are Robot World Models? - by Chris Paxton
- The Guardian - Autonomous Wildland Firefighting - video - source
- A step-by-step guide to migrating ROS 1 to ROS 2
- Event Cameras: Benefits and Challenges within Aerial Robotics Aerial Robotics
- SOTA for Multi Robot Cooperation in RMF
- I want a Beginner-Friendly ROS 2 Training
- Python Generated Messages with Static Type Hints
- ROSBag Data Management for Robotics Projects
- Real-time Raspberry Pi ROS 2 image updated for Jazzy and 24.04
- Demand for Highly-Calibrated Cameras
- Hybrid indoor and outdoor map
- Mobile Grasping Robot (AGV+robot arm) with Voice & Vision Control
- ROS 2 Online Robot Racing Contest
- AI Worker Redefines Agility in Logistics with Swerve Drive
- MicroROS multi client capacity
- New contact message for sensor_msgs
- Introduction to OMY and Physical AI Tool
- imu_calib for ROS 2 Humble – Static IMU Calibration Tool
- New packages for ROS 2 Rolling Ridley
- Multi-map navigation system
- How to run ROS 2 Humble natively on macOS
- A ROS 2 turtlesim game
- ROS 2 Swarm source
- ROS 2 Gazebo quadcopter simulator
- Why and How to Use Behavior Trees in Your Robot Application?- examples
- Autonomous RC Car
- Release YOLOv9-c pre-release
- Visual Studio Code extension for ROS 2
- Solve Robotics Fragmentation “Once and For All” with the Arduino GIGA-Powered R4
- Collection of robotics research demonstrating reliability and robustness in the real world
- Touch begins where vision ends: Generalizable policies for contact-rich manipulation
- Where Robotic Manipulation Meets Structured and Scalable Evaluation
- Highly accurate and efficient VSLAM system for Python
- Online Open-Vocabulary Semantic Mapping for Natural Language Navigation in Dynamic Changing Scenes
- SAM4D: Segment Anything in Camera and LiDAR Streams
Got a Minute? 
I’ve got a couple of feature requests we could use help with.
- Feature request: ROS 2 Launch – add an option to not capture stdout and stderr
- Feature request: RMW Zenoh – setting DiffServe value of select topics