ROS News for the Week of June 2nd, 2025
We’ll be at CVPR 2025 in Nashville next week (mostly at the OpenCV booth). Join us for a joint ROS / OpenCV meetup after the conference on Thursday, June 12th! Bring your cowboy boots as we’ll be hanging out at a classic Nashville honky tonk.
Contributor @rkent has proposed some fantastic new features to extended ROS Index to cover all of the ROS packages on Github along with some improved search capabilities. We would love to hear your feedback on the proposed changes.
Nav2 for ROS 2 Kilted Kaiju has been released!
@KimMcG has a fantastic new blog post and video on getting Kilted and Gazebo running on Windows that is worth checking out.
Videos from this year’s ROS Industrial annual meeting in Detroit are now on YouTube. Of particular interest is this talk from Fanuc about their official support for ROS 2!
Events
- 2025-06-09 ROS 2 Rust Meeting
- 2025-06-12 ROS / OpenCV Meetup at CVPR 2025 in Nashville
- 2025-06-13 Munich AI Robotics Hackathon
- 2025-06-14 LeRobot Worldwide Hackathon
- 2025-06-20 ROS Japan UG #58 九州ROSJP - connpass
- 2025-06-25 First ROS Meetup in Belgium
- 2025-06-30 - 2025-07-04 ACM Sigsoft Robotics Summer School
- 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
- Social Robots That Curse: Why and How to Study Them
- Ukraine’s Autonomous Killer Drones Defeat Electronic Warfare
- Inventory robots come to Sleepy Hollow as Simbe partners with grocery chain
- Aldebaran, maker of Pepper and Nao robots, put in receivership
- Indy Autonomous Challenge coming to California
- Europe will have to be more Tenacious to land its first rover on the moon
- Amazon launches new R&D group focused on agentic AI and robotics
- Hugging Face unveils two new humanoid robots
- Our friends at Ekumen are Hiring!
ROS
- Nav2 Kilted Release!
Possible extended ros index features (feedback requested)- Calling all Developers: Join us at NVIDIA GTC Paris for the Latest in AI and Robotics!
- ROS signing key migration guide
- ROS Industrial Americas 2025 Annual Meeting Videos
- ROS 2: Across the Windows-Verse
- Architecture Advice for Large-Scale Radar-Based Volume Estimation
- Groot2 PRO free until the end of Robocup 2025
- Best Practices for Replacing ament_target_dependencies in Kilted while maintaining compatibility
- New Launched AI Kit for ROS Map Navigation Learning
- Intel RealSense D555 with Native ROS 2 Support
- How to Convert a ROS 1 Bag to a ROS 2 Bag
- Draw with AI in ROS 2 TurtleSim
- Simulate RB-KAIROS+ robot with ROS 2: Step-by-Step Tutorial
- Virtual RobotX (VRX) resources.
- Repository for running the VGGT model in PyTorch
- Koch Arm v1.1 – PartaBot
- SmolVLA: Efficient Vision-Language-Action Model trained on Lerobot Community Data
- IndieRobot’s Schedule on Twitch
- An in-depth visual guide on Motion Planning in Robotics – Video Part 1 – Video Part 2
- Machine Learning Containers for NVIDIA Jetson and JetPack-L4T
- Upgrading UiAbot – UiAbot documentation
- Open Source Goliath Gripper
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We would really like your feedback on these new features for ROS Index!!!