ROS News for the Week of June 23rd, 2025
RSS was this week and the best paper award went to a team at CMU for DexWild, a ROS 2 package that allows for dexterous human interaction for in-the-wild policies
Someone on the Arduino Blog built a TurtleBot3-inspired robot from vacuum cleaner parts.
Continuing our discussion on ROS 2 tooling, check out this RQT tool for the online editing of TF frames.. This looks way easier than editing files by hand!
Naoki Akai, a researcher at Nagoya University along with his collaborators has released Plain SLAM ROS 2, a lightweight LiDAR-Inertial SLAM system for ROS 2. It is a dependency-free implementation for research and education purposes.
Congratulations to our Belgian friends on their first successful ROS meetup this week!
Events
- 2025-06-30 2025-07-04 ACM Sigsoft Robotics Summer School
- 2025-07-01 MoveIt Pro Works Here: BMW Group Innovates Automotive Assembly
- 2025-07-07 Cracow Robotics & AI Meetup #11
- 2025-07-09 Voxel51 Best of CVPR recap
- 2025-07-18 => 2025-07-20 Open Sauce Conference (we’ll have a joint Open Robotics / OpenCV / OSHWA booth)
- 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
- Intrinsic CTO, Roboto CEO, Bright Machines CSO, Dyna Robotics on NYSE theCube
- NAU researchers release open-source exoskeleton framework – Open Hardware / Software Exo Skeleton from University of Michigan
- Gazebo Community Meeting: Command-line redesign in Gazebo
- Rodney Brooks on the problem with Humanoids
- Watch a Robot Arm Thrower, Curiosity’s New Terrain, and more
- Digital Teammate from Badger Technologies uses multipurpose robots
- A beginner’s guide to safe human-robot collaboration
- VC reflects on robotics trade show season
- Voliro brings in $23M to accelerate inspection drone development
- Google rolls out new Gemini model that can run on robots locally
- This Amish company embraced robots
- ICRA Debate: Data Will Solve Robotics and Automation: True or False?
- KiConnect at KiCon, New interoperability between FreeCAD and KiCad
- Poster Submissions at CppCon
- Seegrid AMRs Surpass 17 Million Autonomous Miles Driven in Customer Facilities
- Erik Nieves on Why Human-in-the-Loop Robotics Is the Future
- Melonee Wise on What’s Next for Humanoid
- Gemini Robotics On-Device brings AI to local robotic devices
- Hack Turns Nissan Leaf Into Giant RC Car
- Winners of the OpenCV Perception Challenge for Bin-Picking
- Sign up for ROSCon UK 2025 notification
- Kilted Kaiju Swag Sale
- These 43 robotics companies are hiring (LinkedIn)
ROS
RSS 2025 Best Paper: DexWild: Dexterous Human Interactions for In-the-Wild Robot Policies - DexWild Hardware Setup - training code- Arduino Blog: The PlatypusBot is a TurtleBot3-inspired robot built from vacuum cleaner parts
- An rqt plugin for creating, manipulating and managing tf frames
- Lightweight LiDAR-Inertial SLAM system for ROS 2
- Visual SLAM for Drones Hardware Setup
- NVIDIA Isaac Sim™ is now open-source!
- News from @ooeygui regarding the Microsoft ROS 2 VSCode extension
- Convert your ROS 2 bags into lerobot/groot_lerobot format!
- New tutorial package release: MELFA ROS 2 iQ Platform
- Understanding PID Controllers
- On new GTSAM version (without Boost)
- A ROS 2 Odyssey : A Playable Way to Learn ROS 2
- An all-in-one robotics development platform with ROS 2 and 10 TOPS computing capability
- Space Station OS v0.8.3 Released
- Acquiring Training Data with the myController Exoskeleton
- MDD10A ROS 2 / Arduino Bridge: Cytron Dual Motor Driver Integration with ROS 2
- Aerial Robotics Meeting - June 19th 2025
- Book: A concise Introduction to Robot Programming with ROS 2, Second Edition
- New version of ROS 2 testing framework
- SLAM Resources from the weekly ROS News
- 2D Gaussian Splatting based LiDAR Odometry And Mapping
- Interactive ROS 2 launch file visualizer for VS Code
- MPPI (Model Predictive Path-Integral) Controller for a Swerve Drive Robot
- Monocular SLAM Visual Odometry ROS
- RGBD_OakCamera_RTABMap: Synchronized stereo matching pipeline using the OAK-D Pro camera
- rosbag-rx: A high-performance, frontend-focused ROS bag playback library for JavaScript and TypeScript
- Self-Balancing Robot: Sim-to-Real HIL Platform
- Cool Self Reconfigurable Quadruped
- mdd10a ROS 2 Arduino Bridge
- Run ROS 2 Humble natively on macOS – ROS 2 MoveIt for Mac
- eFlesh: Highly customizable Magnetic Touch Sensing using Cut-Cell Microstructures – paper
Got a Minute? 
- The ROS 2 PMC needs help reviewing this pull request to tf2_ros_py that adds timeouts to async buffer interfaces
- The ROS 2 PMC also needs some help documenting a “gotcha” in rclcpp that doesn’t allow zero-copy intra-process communication for
shared_ptrorstd::move raw messages
