ROS News for the Week of June 9th, 2025
Check out this slick little example repository that uses AI agents / LangChain to automate TurtleSim / Turtlebot 3 behaviors. Also happy Pride month! 
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The LeRobot Worldwide Hackathon is this weekend and NVIDIA has made a post-training Isaac GR00T N1.5 release for the LeRobot SO-101 arm. If you want to learn all about it why not join us for our ROS Singapore Meetup where former Open Robotics employee You Liang will explain how he put it together?
Another ROS unicorn!
Gecko Robotics has raised $125 million in a deal valuing the critical infrastructure startup at over $1 billion.
The results for the OpenCV Bin Picking Challenge were announced at CVPR 2025 yesterday. The challenge makes use of both ROS and Intrinsic’s Flowstate. Congratulations to all of the teams involved. OpenCV should have more info out shortly. If you happen to be at CVPR swing by the OpenCV booth. I’ll be there all weekend lending a hand!
Does ROS Discourse look a bit different today? We’ve started the migration process to become the new and improved “Open Robotics Discourse”. There will be other changes to the website rolling out over the next few weeks.
Events
- 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
- 2025-06-26 ROS Singapore Meetup – Humanoid Edition
- 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
- ROS PMC Minutes for June 10, 2025
- Changes to email functionality of Discourse
- From $6K to $600M: How Ryan Gariepy Quietly Changed Robotics Forever
- Unitree G1 Humanoid Robot Certificate Training in Barcelona, Spain
- Possible extended ros index features (feedback requested)
- Overcoming Limitations of Proprietary Scientific Hardware Funding
- Gecko Robotics raises $125 million in deal valuing critical infrastructure startup over $1 billion
- Los Angeles: LeRobot Global Hackathon
- RSS 2025 Robot Manipulation Workshop
- How BRINC Scales Faster with Roboto
- Weekly Robotics #316
- Why humanoid robots need their own safety rules
- Universal Robots offers direct torque control for demanding cobot tasks
- Beewise brings in $50M to expand access to its robotic BeeHome
- Gecko Robotics reaches unicorn status with latest funding
- Meta V-JEPA 2 world model uses raw video to train robots
- Coco Robotics raises $80M
- Bedrock Ocean dredges up $25M to map the seafloor with robots
- XRobotics’ countertop robots are cooking up 25,000 pizzas a month
- Figure AI CEO skips live demo, sidesteps BMW deal questions onstage at tech conference
- Seegrid AMRs have officially traveled 17M miles autonomously
ROS
- The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Docker for ROS 2 Deployment
- ManyMove - A simple manipulation framework – source
- AI agents for turtlesim and TurtleBot3 using LangChain
- Post-Training Isaac GR00T N1.5 for LeRobot SO-101 Arm
- Cloudini: pointcloud compression for the rest of us
- A modular AI-enhanced CLI tool for robotics development
- GELLO: A General, Low-Cost, and Intuitive Teleoperation Framework for Robot Manipulators
- New packages for ROS 2 Rolling Ridley 2025-03-09
- GUI for ros2 <=> Gazebo launch file generator
- Seeking feedback on enabling post-launch tracing in ros2_tracing
- dynamic_reconfigure in ROS 2?!
- ROS / ROS 2 Gazebo quadcopter simulator.
- Launch and configuration files for running Nav2 on MVsim worlds
- Edge AI Applications for ROS on Motorized Robot
- Open Source Goliath_Gripper
- Machine Learning Containers for NVIDIA Jetson and JetPack-L4T
- Post-Training Isaac GR00T N1.5 for LeRobot SO-101 Arm
- ICRA2025: OpenGS-SLAM: Open-Set Dense Semantic SLAM with 3D Gaussian Splatting for Object-Level Scene Understanding
- Princeton Intro to Robotics
- MuJoCo simulation stack for Stretch Robot
- ROS Object Tracking Package from OpenCV
- How to Learn Embedded Systems While Working Full-Time
- PyTorch implementation for STORM: Spatiotemporal Reconstruction Model for Large-Scale Outdoor Scenes
- An in-depth visual guide on Motion Planning in Robotics
- LeGO-LOAM: Lightweight and Ground-Optimized Lidar Odometry and Mapping on Variable Terrain
- SmolVLA Explainer Video
- 4D Path Planning for Unmanned Ground Vehicles
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