ROS News for the Week of March 24th, 2025
The website for ROSCon 2025 in the Republic of Singapore is now live.
Three big things to know:
- The CFP is open! Send us your talks!
- We are looking for event sponsors.
- The ROSCon Diversity Scholarship program is now open!
Scholarship details are available here and applications are due 2025-04-18T07:00:00Z.
Our colleagues over at JAXA have released the source code for the their robot on the international space station. – ROS / Gazebo source code – also available for Isaac Sim.
Check out this amazing 3D printed ROS 2 omnidirectional robot – source code.
It was the European Robotics Forum this week. OSRA members Intrinsic, Bosch, Huawei, Husarion and ROS-I were major supporters. Our colleagues in the area also organized a ROS meetup (pictured above).
Events
- 2025-03-31 ROS OpenEmbedded Community Group
- 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
- Announcing ROSCon 2025 in the Republic of Singapore
- OSRF Google Summer of Code 2025
- Ros-controls PMC meeting 26th March 2025
- ROS PMC Minutes for March 25, 2025
- Ubuntu now officially supports NVIDIA Jetson: powering the future of AI at the edge
- ICRA 2025: CALL FOR STARTUPS
- ICRA 2025: Call for Late Breaking Results
- Introducing RDA: Revolutionizing ROS Data Management for Robotics Teams
- Torc debuts physical AI for long-haul trucking at NVIDIA GTC 2025
- Zoox issues voluntary software recall for 258 vehicles
- Contoro picks up $12M to scale container unloading robots
- BlueHalo wins $30M follow-on contract with the U.S. Navy
- PIXKIT: A Drive-by-Wire Chassis Platform for Autonomous Vehicle R&D
- Discover 3D-Printed Robots and More on Video Friday
ROS
- Introducing rosidlcpp: Building interface packages 10x faster
- Faster rclpy executor now in Rolling
New Issue Template Added for ROS 2 Documentation
ROS 2 Android Sensor Bridge- Inspect, compare and align multiple grid maps in an intuitive & fast GUI
- JAXA: Int-Ball2 ROS / Gazebo Simulator Released – Int-Ball2 Simulator (Isaac Sim)
- Video: Making an omnidirectional ROS 2 robot
- QOI (Quite OK Image) format available as image_transport (lossless RGB(A) 50x faster than PNG)
- Challenges with ROS 2 on commercial robots
- Should all released packages be documented by ROS infrastructure?
- ROS Virtual Reality (VR) Interface
- Upcoming switch of Windows installation to pixi/conda
- ROS 2 platform based program designed to control and Monitor ATVs.
- Video: Event Cameras: a New Way of Sensing - Davide Scaramuzza - ICCP 2024 Keynote
- Video: Gazebo Community Meeting - 2025-03-26 - Benjamin Perseghetti: Testing Hardware Performance with Gazebo
- OpenMANIPULATOR-X Now Supports ROS 2 Jazzy & Gazebo Harmonic!
- MTConnect OPC UA Bridge
- An autonomous vehicle stack, including perception, planning, and control, built for CARLA.
- PickNik Robotics ROS Support Library
- A curated list of awesome robot descriptions (URDF, MJCF) - See also: Gazebo Fuel
- A GUI Tool for Monitoring ROS 2 Topic Availability
- A Fleet of Unitree GOs (GO1 and GO2) capable of Heterogeneous Collaborative Exploration. - details
- MegaRover Source Code
- manymove: plan and execute moves with manipulators in ROS2
- Under water SLAM
- Tier4 ROS Bag Extensions
- NVIDIA-Omniverse/PhysX ChangeLog
- Dual dexterous hand manipulation tasks through Isaac Gym
Have a Minute 
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It would be really awesome if someone from the community could fix this autocomplete issue with ros2 topic pub before the Kilted feature freeze.
We would also appreciate some help with the official ros_gz documentation.
Please just assign yourself the ticket and go to town!