ROS News for the Week of March 17th, 2025 
Thanks to some design contributions from our friends at HeloRobo.com the landing page on docs.ros.org just got a facelift!
The OSRA turned one year old this week! As of this week we have 48 corporate members, five open source projects, and close to 200 individual members.
The week we launched our 2025 OSRF Google Summer of Code program. JdeRobot is also looking for GSoC students. We’ve also opened up our 2025 Internship open thread. where companies can post their internship opportunities.
We had some greatnews out of NVIDIA GTC: Jetson boards will finally run recent Ubuntu releases! No more using Docker containers to run Jazzy on your Jetson!
Introducing "maps“: Inspect, compare and align multiple grid maps
Our first ever ROS meetup in Colombia will happen May 24th in Cali!
Events
- 2025-03-22 Seeed Embodied AI Hackathon with LeRobot
- 2025-03-24 ROS Meetup at European Robotics Forum
- 2025-03-24 Intrinsic / Automatica Sponsored Fun Run at European Robotics Forum
- 2025-03-25 Space ROS Club Japan
- 2025-03-26 Dronecode Philly Meetup
- 2025-04-11 Mistral AI Robotics Hackathon Paris
- 2025-04-28 International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering
- 2025-04-30 Robotics Summit & Expo wsg @gbiggs.
- 2025-05-15 ROS-Industrial Consortium Americas 2025 Annual Meeting Detroit
- 2025-05-23 ICRA 2025 Advancing Quantitative and QUAlitative SIMulators for marine applications
- 2025-05-24 ROS MeetUp in Cali, Colombia!
- 2025-05-30 => 2025-05-31 2025 Open Hardware Summit in Edinburgh
- 2025-09-09 ROSCon JP in Nagoya
- 2025-10-27 =>2025-10-30 ROSCon Singapore
- 2025-11-17 => 2025-11-20 Joint ROSCon Germany and France
News
- 2025 Internship Open Thread
- OSRF Google Summer of Code 2025
- Participate in GSoC 2025 with JdeRobot open-source organization
- Joint ROSCon FR + DE 2025
- Harvard Business School: “We find that firms would need to spend 3.5 times more on software than they currently do if OSS did not exist.”
- Ubiquity Robotics has joined the OSRA!
- Rerun.io Raises $17M Series A - TechCrunch
- Video OpenMV’s Kwabena Agyeman - OpenCV In Conversation Ep. 001
- Weekly Robotics #304
- Raising the Bar: Adding Height and Versatility to Mobile Manipulator Robots
- Accepted Talks: at Robotics Science and Systems
- CFP: Agents-In-Interactions CVPR Workshop
- Tera AI comes out of stealth with $7.8M to provide visual navigation for robots
- Intrinsic and NVIDIA deepen platform integrations for intelligent robotics
- Nvidia debuts Groot N1, a foundation model for humanoid robotics
- Discover Superhumanoid Robots on Video Friday
- Salto Robot Masters Squirrel-Like Branch Leaping
- Biggest robotics news from NVIDIA GTC day 2
- Locus Array automates induction, storage for ‘zero touch’ fulfillment
- Dexterity launches Mech dual-armed mobile manipulator for truck loading
- Anyware Robotics picks up $12M seed funding to automate container unloading
- Yaak adds Vehicle Data to Hugging Face – The Data
ROS
docs.ros.org just got a facelift!
Introducing "maps“: Inspect, compare and align multiple grid maps- Best news out of NVIDIA GTC: Jetsons Finally Run Recent Ubuntu Releases
Noetic EOL plan- ROS Noetic is reaching End of Life in May 2025 – Which additional packages do you need in ROS Noetic ESM?
- New Packages for Noetic 2025-03-20
- Running ROS Noetic in Docker: A Practical Guide for Simulation and Teleoperation
- Dynamic URDF files/robot descriptions
- Aerial Robotics Meeting - March 20th 2025
- Declarative ROS presentation slides & the Robograph project kickoff
- Why is there no ament_python_simple?
- Reusable Components in URDF
- Robotiq Hand-E gripper ROS 2 Humble driver
- Clearpath’s ROS 2 driver for the Ewellix lift columns.
- New TurtleBot3 AutoRace Tutorial Examples Released!
- Official ROS 2 Driver Release for Mitsubishi Electric Industrial Robot MELFA
- Nav2 Migrated to TwistStamped to replace Twist for cmd_vel Topics
- Notice: tj-actions/changed-files 3rd party GitHub Action compromised
- ManyMove – C++/Python Behavior Trees for Robot Manipulators
- ROS 2 Jazzy Packages for Ubuntu 22.04
- FloPE: Flower Pose Estimation for Precision Pollination
- MASt3R-SLAM: Real-Time Dense SLAM with 3D Reconstruction Priors
- NASA: A stream-based runtime-verification framework for generating hard real-time C code.
- Running Ignition Gazebo Ionic on Google Colab
- Video Revolution from ROS 1 to ROS 2
- OpenManipulator for controlling in Gazebo and Moveit with ROS
- Pixi Release 0.43.0 - 2025-03-20
- KiCad Version 9.0.1 Release Candidate 1
- SpatialLM-Llama-1B on Hugging Face
- Open Source Modern Robotics Course Wiki
- CVPR 2025: MAGiC-SLAM: Multi-Agent Gaussian Globally Consistent SLAM
- Setting Up LeRobot Using API Standalone Method in NVIDIA Isaac Sim
- OpenBot-Waffle Robot
- Mevius: Roll Your Own Quadruped
- Open_Duck_Mini: Clone BDX droid
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