ROS News for the Week of May 19th, 2025
Kilted Kaiju is here
! I am writing the news from a very busy Waffle House in downtown 
Atlanta (I’ m here for ICRA). As the nice lady behind the counter just told me, “team work makes the dream work!” We want to thank the hundreds of people who made this release possible!
Speaking of Atlanta, we had an absolutely amazing ROS 2 Kilted Kaiju release party at ICRA in Atlanta thanks to the support of our friends at Intrinsic, Foxglove, and PAL Robotics (our newest OSRA member)! Big shout out to the 300 or so people who showed up!
The festivities continue into next week including our Singapore ROS Meetup, our Edinburgh Hardware Happy Hour, Edinburgh robotics meetup ROS 1 wake, a ROS meetup in Barcelona, and Open Hardware Summit in Edinburgh.
ROSCON 2025 TALK PROPOSALS ARE DUE IN 11 DAYS 
Events
- 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
- A call for increased community involvement with MoveIt 2
- ROS PMC Minutes for May 20, 2025
- ROS Meetup Nigeria
- Vote for the most useful Cloud Robotics guides!
- Summer Hackathon with ROSCon 2025 Awards
- Serve is betting that food delivery and access to public markets are the keys to scaling robotics
- Mbodi AI launches on Y Combinator, developing embodied AI for industrial robots
- Rainbow Robotics unveils omnidirectional wheels, development kit for its dual-arm robot
- TRON1 robot extends its reach with a new optional arm
- Simbe upgrades vision platform with AI-powered capabilities
- Saildrone brings in $60M to expand European maritime presence
- RealMan displays embodied robotics at Automate 2025
- Autonomous Surgical Robots Enhance Precision in the OR
- Truck Platooning: The Near Future of Freight
ROS
- ROS 2 Kilted Kaiju Released!
- ROVs Design
- Rmw_zenoh router configuration
- Optional automatic
source install/setup.bashin cwd when using ROS 2 CLI commands - Drone project for personal learning
- Low Latency Teleoperation Recommendation
- rtest - ROS 2 Unit Tests Framework
- About 85% of all robotic arms now have ROS 2 drivers
- ROS Signing key expiracy
- RPLIDAR Driver - Incorrect Version in repos?
- 55 New and 414 updated packages for ROS 2 Jazzy Jalisco
- Minecraft ROS?!
- Unity_ROS 2_Robot_Simulator
- XLeRobot: XLeRobot: Practical Household Dual-Arm Mobile Robot for ~$660
- ROSplat: The Online ROS2-Based Gaussian Splatting-Enabled Visualizer
RT-Affordance- genesis_ros: Genesis Simulator Bridge to ROS – proximal policy optimization
- FAST-Calib: A Handy Extrinsic Calibration Tool for LiDAR-camera Systems.
- The Most Promising Open Source Robotics Startups in 2025
- Weekly Robotics #313
- Release repo for our SLAM Handbook
- AI Worker: FFW (Freedom From Work)
- Generate random crop fields for Ignition Gazebo
- ROS Ranger Mini: Radar & Depth Enabled AMR - Hackster.io
- Ultralytics YOLOv8, YOLOv9, YOLOv10, YOLOv11, YOLOv12 for ROS 2
- Deep_Reinforcement_Learning_Multi_Robot_Payload_Transport
- Pedestrian simulator powered by the social force model
- Repository for HeRCULES file player.
- Migrating from ROS 1 to ROS 2: what you need to know (before the robot apocalypse) - Ekumen
- The Husarion OS Flasher Image (HOFI) is a USB flash drive–based, unified tool designed to simplify the operating system installation process
- Georeferencing Point Clouds*
