ROS News for the week of May 5th, 2025
Our ROS Meetup in Detroit at Automate is next Tuesday. Looking forward to seeing everyone there!
Our friends over at OpenCV have organized their first conference which is happening on Monday! If you are in San Jose tickets are still available.
We have a ton of other events coming up this month! Please take a look at the event list below.
The team over at Le Robot / Pollen Robotics have released this fantastic Blender plugin that let’s you automatically build robot poses and movements using Blender and ROS. I’ve been saying for awhile that something like this would be really useful for robot developers, particularly people who lean more towards animitronics!
A team over at Berkeley has released a low-cost, 3D printable, open source hardware and software humanoid robot. You can build your own for less than US$5000!
Check out this fantastic tutorial on controlling a 6DOF robot arm with ros2_control.
Events
- 2025-05-11 CFP Deadline for Robotics & AI Track @ CppCon
- 2025-05-12 ROS 2 Rust Meeting
- 2025-05-12 The OpenCV-SID Conference on Computer Vision & AI
- 2025-05-13 ROS Meetup in Detroit at Automate
- 2025-05-15 ROS-Industrial Consortium Americas 2025 Annual Meeting Detroit
- 2025-05-19 Robotics Startup Bootcamp at ICRA
- 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
- 2025-06-25 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 2 L Name Brainstorming
- ROS2 Hosting / Open Source Lab
- Request for comment: OSRA’s new Enhancement Proposal Process draft
- Weekly Robotics #311
- Organizing a ROS Meetup in Boston
- ROS Meetup at Automate in Detroit
- ROS PMC Minutes for May 6, 2025
- Actuate 2025 - Call for Presentations
- Improving Flying Drones By Mimicking Flying Squirrels
- CVPR 2025 Matrix3D: Large Photogrammetry Model All-in-One
- Seeking Feedback: Open-Source Mobile Manipulator Platform for Robotics Development
- Migrating from ROS 1 to ROS 2: what you need to know (before the robot apocalypse)
- Teradyne Robotics makes leadership changes at MiR, UR
- igus introduces Iggy Rob low-cost humanoid for service, industrial applications
- Robot Videos: Robotic Horse, Edible Robots, and More
ROS
- Kilted Kaiju Test and Tutorial Party Instructions
- New TurtleBot3 tutorial videos! ArUco Marker, Follower, Panorama
Berkeley Humanoid Lite: An Open-source, Accessible, and Customizable 3D-printed Humanoid Robot- reachy2-blender: Animate Reachy 2 in Blender and sync its movements to the real robot.
- New Packages for Noetic 2025-05-08 - Preparing for second to last Noetic Sync 2025-05-08
- ROSCon China 2024 Videos
- All Nodes as Lifecycle Nodes?
- Space Station OS v0.8.2 released
- Announcing “Maps”: Show robots live on a map on the web
- New Open-Source Release for Quadruped Unitree Go2
- Energy efficiency in ROS communication: a comparison across programming languages and workloads
- Simulating Drones with ROS 2 and Gazebo
- Sim2Real RL Pipeline for Kinova Gen3
- Space ROS Jazzy 2025.04.0 Release
- API for controlling LEAP Hand for Inhand Manipulation tasks
- Radar4Motion: 4D Imaging Radar based IMU-free Odometry with Radar Cross Section (RCS) weighted Correspondences
- CVPR 2025 WildGS-SLAM: Monocular Gaussian Splatting SLAM in Dynamic Environments
- ROS 2 implementation of robot navigation using NeRF – Video
- Trajectory Tracking with ROS and Gazebo
- A toolbox for target-less LiDAR-camera calibration ROS 1 / ROS 2
- Transitive Maps Capability Demo
- Unleashing the Force: Custom Astro Droid Motor Control PCB with MicroROS, ROS2 and RP2040Zero!
- ROS MCP Server
- Great Collection of Simulated Robot Arms with Gazebo and ROS 2 – video
- Making the Franka Robot play whack a mole
- Controlling a 6DOF Robot Arm with ros2_control
- Compliant controller for the Kinova Gen3 arm
Got a minute?
The Kilted Kaiju Test and Tutortial party is ongoing! We really need Windows testers to step up so we can wrap up testing!