Open Robotics News for the Week of July 13th, 2025
A bunch of our core maintainers will be at Open Sauce in San Mateo this weekend! Drop by our booth if you happen to be there. We’ve also scheduled an Open Sauce after party for Saturday night.
Our next ROS By-The-Bay meetup is scheduled for Thursday! Our next ROS Meetup in Singapore will be on August 6th, and feature a collection of academic lightning talks.
Meet our 2025 Open Robotics Google Summer of Code Students! These fantastic students are creating some of the new features you will find in our upcoming releases.
Long time ROS contributor @DLu just published a fantastic video where he does a brain dump on ROS interfaces. It is worth a watch!
Looking for ROS productivity tools? I found a few new ones this week, including LaunchMap, a way to visualize your ROS 2 launch files in VSCode, a VSCode extension for managing ROS 2 environments, and Ros2top, a top-like utility for ROS 2.
Events
- 2025-07-19 Open Source @ Open Sauce after party
- 2025-07-19 => 2025-07-20 Joint Open Robotics / OpenCV / OSHWA booth at Open Sauce
- 2025-07-24 ROS By-The-Bay July 2025
- 2025-07-26 Mechanical Design for Robotics (Fusion 360)
- 2025-07-26 => 2025-08-01 ROS Summer School in China
- 2025-07-31 Canadian Robotics Council / ROS Meetup at Avidbots in Kitchner Ontario
- 2025-07-31 Tentative ROS / Dronecode Meetup in LA
- 2025-08-03 Black in Robotics: Computer Vision and Robotics
- 2025-08-06 ROS Meetup Singapore - Academic Lightning Talks
- 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
- 2025-11-04 => 2025-11-05 ROSCon España 2025
- 2025-11-17 => 2025-11-20 Joint ROSCon Germany and France
News
- Meet our 2025 Open Robotics Google Summer of Code Students
- Changes to default notifications from the Open Robotics Discourse
- Gazebo PMC Meeting Minutes 2025-07-14
- RealSense spins out of Intel to scale its stereoscopic imaging technology
- Rerun 0.24 Release
California ROS Events for July 2025 (including Open Sauce!)- ROSCon UK Programme Announced & Registration Open!
- Hugging Face opens up orders for its Reachy Mini desktop robots
- Diligent Robotics completes 300,000 pharmacy deliveries with Moxi - The Robot Report
- Unveiling the Tree of Robots: A new taxonomy for understanding robotic diversity
- Inside Advanced Navigation’s coral loss discovery in the world’s southernmost reefs
- Pharm Robotics advances automated dairy cow healthcare
- Kraken Robotics nets $115M for marine systems in public offering
- Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics with $80M to automate construction
- Robot Videos: Weekly Highlights and Innovations
- Robots Want The Jobs You Can’t Do
- Request for Information: National Strategic Plan for Advanced Manufacturing
- OpenCV 4.12.0 os Now Available
- ROS 1 End-of-Life: Transition Services to ROS 2 and Apex.OS
ROS
- Donate your rosbag (Cloudini benchmark)
- Everything I Know About ROS Interfaces: Explainer Video
- Visual Studio Code Extension for managing ROS 2 environments
- Ros2top - top-like utility for ROS 2
- LaunchMap: Visualize your ROS 2 Launch Files in VSCode
- ORB-SLAM3 Extension: Real-Time Sparse Map to Occupancy Grid (.yaml/.pgm) for ROS 2 Navigation
- Sim2Real with OMY: From Gazebo and IsaacSim Training to Real-World Deployment
- Intel RealSense D555 with Native ROS 2 Support
- Better Console Logging
- Wire Breaking Change in rmw_zenoh for ROS 2 Jazzy
- New packages for ROS 2 Rolling Ridley 2025-07-16
- Indoor Navigation Robot Convey Workflow with Nikiro and ROS 2
- Introducing Hexar.ai - AI-Powered Fault Diagnosis Tool for Robotics Teams
- Raspberry Pi 5 Stereo Vision
- Installation and configuration of the Raspberry Pi Camera on a ROS 2/Jazzy Raspberry Pi 5
- New ROS 2 Package: ros2_teleoperation
- Rolling-Bonxai: A rolling voxel grid implementation of Bonxai to handle large maps in ROS 2
- Detailed explanation of ROS 2 Executor
- We’re open-sourcing “The Amazing Hand”, a fully 3D printed robotic hand for less than $200
- ROS 2 Package for LeRobot SO-ARM101
- Visual SLAM in NVIDIA Isaac Sim with Jetson Orin Nano
- Real-Time AI Stereo Vision Library
- Release YOLOv9-c weight pre-release
- LiteReality: Graphics-Ready 3D Scene Reconstruction from RGB-D Scans
- GraspGen: A Diffusion-based Framework for 6-DOF Grasping
- ROSA: a knowledge-based solution for robot self-adaptation
- Robotics 501: Mathematics for Robotics
- ROS Industrial Calibration
- Real-time hand gesture and pose tracking via webcam for intuitive teleoperation of robot arms.
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