ROS News for the Week of June 16th, 2025
ROSCon 2025 workshops have been announced and registration is now open! Workshops have sold out every year for the past three or four years. We recommend you register ASAP! Registration is also now open for ROSConJP
This week there was a whole suite of new ROS productivity tools were released, including
a ROS 2 camera focus tool, an interactive launch file visualization tool, and a graphical tool to visualize behaviour tree XML files. The ROS Turtle Nest tool also got a big update.
We’ve got a ton of great ROS events next week including our first ROS Meetup in Belgium, our montly Gazebo community meeting on the Gazebo command-line redesign, and our regular ROS Singapore Meetup.
Automatica is next week in Munich! A large number of OSRA members will be there including Intrinsic, NVIDIA, b-robotized, Advantech, b-robotized, Advantech, Olive Robotics, and PAL Robotics will be there!
Events
- 2025-06-24 Autonomous Driving Meetup #28 in Munich
- 2025-06-25 First ROS Meetup in Belgium
- 2025-06-25 Live Session: How to Teach ROS 2 with Real Robot Practice
- 2025-06-25 Gazebo Community meeting: Command-line redesign
- 2025-06-26 ROS Singapore Meetup – Humanoid Edition
- 2025-06-30 2025-07-04 ACM Sigsoft Robotics Summer School
- 2025-07-01 MoveIt Pro Works Here: BMW Group Innovates Automotive Assembly
- 2025-07-09 Voxel51 Best of CVPR recap
- 2025-07-31 Canadian Robotics Council / ROS Meetup at Avidbots in Kitchner Ontario
- 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
- ROSCon 2025 Workshops Announced / Registration Open
- Registration Now Open for ROSCon JP 2025
- Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab Dev Preview – NVIDIA Isaac Sim™ 5.0 is now Open Source
- Winners of LeRobot Worldwide Hackathon
- 2025 Americas Annual Meeting Recap and Videos
- Jet-Powered Robot, Drone With Trunk, and More
- Request for creation of SWORD - SouthWest Ontario ROS Developers
- Autonomous Planes: Will Pilots Become Relics of the Past?
- Roboworx to aid Miso Robotics in installation, maintenance of its Flippy robots
- farm-ng updates Amiga robot software for small, midsize farms
- Coco Robotics raises $80M to scale sidewalk delivery robots
- SoftBank reportedly looking to launch a trillion-dollar AI and robotics industrial complex | TechCrunch
ROS
ROS 2 Performance Benchmarking- ROS 2 Focus Peaking – source
- launchmap: Interactive ROS 2 launch file visualizer – VSCode Plugin
- bt_visualizer_pkg: G`raphical tool to visualize behaviour tree XML files
- A ROS package for concatenating / combining PointCloud2 data under ROS 2 environment
- An rqt plugin for creating, manipulating and managing tf frames
- Built AI agents for turtlesim and TurtleBot3 using LangChain
- Better Console Logging
- Wire Breaking Change in rmw_zenoh for ROS 2 Jazzy
- On new GTSAM version (without Boost)
- New packages for Humble Hawksbill 2025-06-18
- New packages for Humble Hawksbill 2025-06-13
- New packages for Kilted Kaiju 2025-06-16
- The landscape of software deployment in robotics
- Open-RMF Taxonomy of Interfaces for the Next Generation
- Major Turtle Nest Update: Add Nodes to Any ROS 2 Package Instantly & Browse Existing Package
- eFlesh: Highly customizable Magnetic Touch Sensing using Cut-Cell Microstructures
- Collection of research papers of large Foundation Models for Scenario Generation and Analysis in Autonomous Driving – paper
- Robot Utility Models: General Policies for Zero-Shot Deployment in New Environments
- MASt3R-SLAM: Real-Time Dense SLAM with 3D Reconstruction Priors
- pySLAM is a Python-based Visual SLAM pipeline
- Unifying Visual SLAM: From Fragmented Datasets to Scalable, Real-World Solutions
- Open 3D Scene Understanding Workshop at CVPR 2025
- Vision in Action: Learning Active Perception from Human Demonstrations
- Lightweight LiDAR-Inertial SLAM system for ROS 2.
- Raspberry Pi HQ camera gets adapter for Canon EF/EF-S lenses
- LeKiwi Takes Flight: Building a Low-Cost Robot from Pixels to Performance with Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, and ROS 2
- Vision Language Action Models (VLA) & Policies for Robots
- Robotic Mapping and Localization Course
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