ROS News for the Week of May 12th, 2025
Are you heading to ICRA 2025 in Atlanta! Thanks to support from our friends at Intrinsic, PAL Robotics, and Foxglove we’ve organized a Kilted Kaiju launch party and ROS meetup at ICRA 2025 in Atlanta
The final Noetic Sync will be on 2025-05-29. It is the final countdown for ROS 1!
This week I was at Automate / ROS Industrial Annual meeting in Detroit. We had a fantastic ROS meetup thanks to help from PickNik and ROS Industrial.
The big news out of ROS Industrial is that Fanuc now has an official ROS 2 driver! You need to ask your Fanuc rep for the details and source code. Want to know more about ROS support for various arm vendors? Check out this compatibility guide from PickNik.
A team at UMass Lowell, Rutgers, WPI, Yale, and University of South Florida have just launched robot-manipulation.org. This new website is a one stop shop for all things open source manipulation.
Two weeks from today join us for an Edinburgh ROS Meetup and ROS 1 wake.
ROSCON 2025 TALK PROPOSALS ARE DUE IN TWO WEEKS!
Events
- 2025-05-19 Cloud Robotics WG Meeting
- 2025-05-19 Robotics Startup Bootcamp at ICRA
2025-05-21 Kilted Kaiju Launch at ICRA 2025 in Atlanta- 2025-05-22 Aerial Robotics Meeting
- 2025-05-23 CFP Deadline for Space Robotics Workshop at IEEE SMC-IT/SCC
- 2025-05-23 ROSConJP CFP Deadline
- 2025-05-23 ICRA 2025 Advancing Quantitative and QUAlitative SIMulators for marine applications
- 2025-05-24 ROS Meetup in Cali, Colombia!
- 2025-05-24 ROS Meetup in Lagos, Nigeria
- 2025-05-26 ROSCon UK 2025 CFP Closes
- 2025-05-28 Gazebo Community Meeting on MicroMouse Simulation
- 2025-05-28 Singapore ROS Meetup
- 2025-05-29 Edinburgh Hardware Happy Hour and Edinburgh Robotics Meetup & ROS 1 Wake
- 2025-05-29 ROS Meetup Barcelona
- 2025-05-30 => 2025-05-31 2025 Open Hardware Summit in Edinburgh
2025-05-31 ROS Noetic End-of-Life- 2025-06-02 ROSCon 2025 Talk Submission Deadline
- 2025-06-04 NYC ROS Meetup with New York Tech Week!
- 2025-06-10 Autonomous Grand Challenge 2025 @ ICCV & IROS
- 2025-06-14 LeRobot Worldwide Hackathon
- 2025-6-20 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
- ROS Meetup at ICRA 2025 in Atlanta
- Upcomming Changes to ROS Discourse
- OSRF Adopts Policy on Use of Generative AI in Contributions
- Indy Autonomous Challenge to Join Grand Prix of Monterey Weekend at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca
- Preparing for final Noetic Sync 2025-05-29
- ROS PMC Minutes for May 13, 2025
- Join us for the Robotics in Africa Forum at ICRA 2025 in Atlanta
- IEEE ICRA 2025 | Plenary Sessions
- Warthog Unmanned Ground Vehicle Robot
- Weekly Robotics #312
- Giant Robotic Bugs: Farming’s New Revolution
- DHL buying 1,000+ Stretch robots from Boston Dynamics
- Despite the hype, Interact Analysis expects humanoid adoption to remain slow
- Piaggio Fast Forward launches Star Wars licensed droid
- Universal Robots releases the UR15, its fastest cobot yet
- Realtime Robotics launches Resolver for motion planning, simulation
ROS
- Launching Robot-Manipulation.org! Your resource for open-source and benchmarking for robot manipulation
- Introduction to ROBOTIS AI WORKER
- New Packages for Noetic 2025-05-15
- Integrating ROS 2 with microcontrollers when using Zenoh
- GPSFix vs. NavSatFix
- Preparing for Humble sync 2025-05-16
- New GZ Sim Model : Two Floors with an Elevator
- FROS- framework for seamless hardware integration
- Announcing ROS 2 Easy Mode
- Fast, accurate, robust replay in ROS 2
- Diagnostic Remote Logging Announcement
- Manipulation in ROS 2 (2025): What’s everyone using these days?
- “RCLPY - From Zero to Hero”: a practical ROS 2 (Python)
- Release repo for a SLAM Handbook
- ROS Bossing ROS 2 Jazzy Jalisco FOSSASIA Summit 2025 - YouTube
- ROS 2 package for monocular depth estimation using Depth-Anywhere.
- Controlling a 6DOF Robot Arm with ros2_control
- An One-Click Autodesk Fusion script to convert a robot model to a ready to use ROS 2 package,
- Industrial Robotics & Automation | Southwest Research Institute
- NASA Generator of runtime monitors for flight and robotics applications.
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