ROS News for the Week of March 3rd, 2025
If you plan to be in the Bay Area for NVIDIA GTC we are organizing a special edition of ROS By-The-Bay on 2025-03-19T01:00:00Z in conjunction with our friends at Silicon Valley Robotics and Circuit Launch. All are welcome to attend!
The 2024 ROS Metrics Report has been released. We’re happy to report that ROS community continues to grow and the vast majority of ROS users have moved on to ROS 2. New this year we’ve added some basic contributor metrics from Github.
OSRA Membership badges went out this week and the internet was full - of - people showing their support. If you would like to join the OSRA and support ROS, Gazebo, Open-RMF, ROS Controls, and the infrastructure we all depend on, you can do so using this form the OSRA website.
Our colleague @rkent has done a ton of work improving the end-user experience of ROS Index. This week we pushed a couple of updates that make the search experience both faster and more accurate. Thanks a lot @rkent!
Check out this amazing project where the Turtlebot 3 navigates with deep reinforcement learning.
Events
- 2025-03-10 ROS 2 Rust Meeting
- 2025-03-10
Open-RMF: Community Forum - 2025-03-11 ROS-Industrial Training (Americas)
- 2025-03-11 Space ROS Club Japan
- 2025-03-17 ==> 2025-03-21 ROS / Robotics Sessions at GTC
- 2025-03-18
ROS By-The-Bay X Silicon Valley Robotics NVIDIA GTC Meetup - 2025-03-18 Custom flight modes using PX4 and ROS 2
- 2025-03-19 NVIDIA GTC Physical AI Developer Meetup (must have a GTC ticket to register).
- 2025-03-24 ROS Meetup at #ERF2025
- 2025-04-20 Due Date: OpenCV / Intrinsic Perception Challenge for Bin-picking
- 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
- 2025-05-30 => 2025-05-31 2025 Open Hardware Summit in Edinburgh
News
- 2024 ROS Metrics Report
- Clutterbot has joined the OSRA
- OSRA Member Viam announces $30M Series C – The Robot Report
- WebRTC Video in Transitive Robotics
- Any info of ROS 3(found ros3.org website)?
- ICRA Space Manipulation Workshop
- Get ready for ROS 1 sunset and learn ROS 2 features at the Robotics Summit
- Turtle Robots: Embodied design for enhanced flipper-based locomotion in complex terrains
- Legged Locomotion Meets Skateboarding
- IEEE RAS CASE Travel Grants
- ‘Flow’ wins best animated feature film Oscar using open source software
- ABB plans to invest $120M to expand production capacity in the U.S.
- Aescape raises $83M to bring robotic massager to more locations
- ARM Institute announces new project call, RoboticsCareer.org employer capabilities
- Alibaba-backed robotics firm LimX completes $69m series A
- Robot Videos: Atlas in the Lab, Unitree Kung Fu, and More - IEEE Spectrum
ROS
- TurtleBot 4 Now Supports ROS 2 Jazzy
- Migration of build.ros2.org to Ubuntu 24.04
- New packages for ROS 2 Rolling Ridley
- New Packages for ROS 1 Noetic Ninjemys
- Turtlebot 3 Deep Reinforcement Learning Navigation
- Webots simulation of Spot with ROS 2
- Link inertia tests for robot manipulator URDF - robot description formats
- Pika: A Fast Data Collector Solution for Embodied Intelligence
- Announcing:
rviz_robot_description_topic - Video: Interop SIG March 6, 2025: Memory-safe High-performance Async ROS Programming
- Video: Customize and configure the rmf-web dashboard with MicroApps
- Video: Cracow Robotics & AI Club #10
- Video: Customize and configure the rmf-web dashboard with MicroApps
- Video: The Experience at the Dronecode San Diego Meetup
- Video: 2025 Winter Robotics Colloquium: Sebastian Castro (Robotics and AI Institute)
- Video: Robotic locomotion through active and passive morphological adaptation
- Nav2: Support for Error Codes and (New) Error Messages!
- Behavior Tree library alternative to SMACH and FlexBE
- Quadrotor-Based Slung Payload Transportation Gazebo SITL Simulation Package V1.0
- Flight Control Code For Quadrotors Carrying A Tethered Payload
- Open-source Resources And Tutorials for Drone Tracking
- ROS 2 package for fusing 360° equirectangular images with 3D LiDAR data.
- C++/CUDA library for Multi-View Stereo
- ROLO: ROS package for lidar odometry implementation using rotation optimization method.
- ROScribe: Write your robot software in minutes.
- RT CRANE+ V2 ROS 2 package for Jazzy
- RT CRANE-X7 ROS 2 package Jazzy
- A Unified Self-Driving World Model for Simultaneous 3D Scene Understanding and Generation
- Open ROS Components for Robots from Fetch: sensor and deformable UMI fingers
- Real-Time Dense SLAM with 3D Reconstruction Priors
- EgoMimic: Georgia Tech PhD student uses Project Aria Research Glasses to help train humanoid robots
- FACTR: Force-Attending Curriculum Training for Contact-Rich Policy Learning
Got a minute 
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We seem to have a problem where RCLPy’s quality of service API documentation is not rendering on docs.ros.org. We’re looking for someone who can contribute a few hours and figure out the issue. The core team would really appreciate some help with this issue. 