ROS News for the Week of May 26th, 2025
End of era! ROS 1 goes end of life tomorrow. We’re holding an unofficial wake in this Github Pull Request. The final sync went out yesterday.
ROSCon 2025 TALK PROPOSALS ARE DUE NEXT TUESDAY!
I tell all of my interns and junior employees to submit talk proposals even if they don’t think it will be selected. Let our amazing volunteer reviewers make the decision if you work is worth showing off at ROSCon.
We also announced our first batch of ROSCon sponsors this week!
This week @facontidavide released
Cloudini: pointcloud compression for the rest of us. Point cloud compression has been a big topic of discussion lately so this is a big step forward.
I teased this last week, but you can now use Minecraft as a ROS simulator!
This week a team from University of Luxembourg released a trailer for “A ROS 2 Odyssey”, a playable way to learn ROS 2.
Events
- 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
- Mark ROS Noetic as end-of-life by sloretz
- ROSCon 2025 Sponsors + CFP Reminder
- ROSCon UK 2025 announces deadline extension!
- These robotics companies are currently hiring – including OSRA member Ekumen.
- Astrobotic, WiBotic test lunar wireless charging system
- Recapping Robotics Summit & Expo 2025
- Kilted Kaiju ROS 2 release details are available
- ARM Institute appoints Jorgen Pedersen as new CEO
- Rainbow Robotics unveils omnidirectional wheels, development kit for its dual-arm robot
- Hugging Face unveils two new humanoid robots
ROS
- New Packages for Noetic 2025-05-29 - FINAL
- Open Hardware Summit 2025 Livestream
- Trailer - A ROS 2 Odyssey : A Playable Way to Learn ROS 2
- Cloudini: pointcloud compression for the rest of us
- minecraft_ros2 is now aviable!!
- Better Console Logging
- NextGen HRI
- First Release rtest - ROS 2 Unit Tests Framework
- ROS users meet up at VivaTech/NVIDIA GTC Paris?
- Protobuf & ROS messages interoperability
- ROS signing key migration guide
- Best Practices for Replacing ament_target_dependencies in Kilted While Maintaining Compatibility
- Ros_docker: Containers for working with ROS in Docker
- A call for increased community involvement with MoveIt 2
- ROS Deliberation Community Group Meeting - June 2, 2025
- Rmw_zenoh router configuration
ROS 2 Kilted Kaiju Release!- RQT Frame Editor
- Multi-map navigation system
- ROSplat: The Online ROS 2-Based Gaussian Splatting-Enabled Visualizer
- Recapping Robotics Summit & Expo 2025
- A stream-based runtime-verification framework for generating hard real-time C code.
- Updated Virtual RobotX (VRX) resources.
- An RQT plugin for hierarchical launchfile configuration introspection.
- Robotis AI Worker: FFW (Freedom From Work)
- fields-ignition: Generate random crop fields for Ignition Gazebo
- Get DDS-Ready with ROS 2 Kilted Kaiju and Connext 7.3 LTS
- RAPTOR: RAPid and Robust Trajectory Optimization for Robots
- Platform for Deep Learning based SLAM
