ROS News for the Week of August 11th, 2025
for ROSCon 2025: advanced submission lightning talks. Based on feedback from the community we’ve made it such that you can now submit a ROSCon lighting talk proposal before ROSCon. In-advance lightning talk proposals are due by 2025-08-23T12:00:00Z.
ROSCon 2025 booths are officially sold out!
Our current registration numbers are also way ahead of previous years and it looks like we’ll sell out again this year.
We recommend that you snag your tickets today or tomorrow, as our discounted early bird registration ends on 2025-08-18T06:59:00Z. If your business or organization would like to support ROSCon we still have a bunch of options including our diversity scholarship program, our event reception, our registration booth, and our awesome WhoVa app.
Save the Date: our Gazebo Jetty Test and Tutorial Party will kick off at 9am PDT on August 27th! If you would like to get involved with Gazebo development the T&T party is a great place to get started.
Trying to keep up with all of the recent innovations in vision-language-action models? Check out this fantastic VLA survey paper that was recently published by collaborators at The University of Tokyo, Oxford, and the University of Texas at Austin.
We’ve added two new OSRA members in the past two weeks! Please welcome Fiction Lab (AKA Leo Rover) and the Austrian Institute of Technology to the OSRA.
We now have over 
organizations supporting the OSRF’s family of open source projects!
Events
- 2025-08-17 THIS SUNDAY IS THE LAST DAY FOR DISCOUNTED EARLY BIRD ROSCON TICKETS!
- 2025-08-18 ROS OpenEmbedded Community Group
- 2025-08-27 Gazebo Jetty Test and Tutorial Party Kickoff
- 2025-09-01 PX4 Summit Call For Proposals (CFP)
- 2025-09-02 ROS Japan UG #59
- 2025-09-05 CogniPilot Conference and ROS Midwest Meetup @ Purdue
- 2025-09-09 ROSCon JP in Nagoya
- 2025-09-10 Autoware Con in Nagoya
- 2025-09-13 Robot Operating System (ROS) Meetup, Lagos
- 2025-09-13 => 2025-09-19 CppCon Colorado
- 2025-09-15 => 2025-09-17 Inaugral ROSCon UK in Edinburgh
- 2025-09-23 Foxglove Actuate Conference – 10% Off with code “ROS10”
- 2025-09-26 Mass Robotics Career Fair
- 2025-10-27 =>2025-10-30 ROSCon Singapore
- 2025-10-30 => 2025-10-31 ROSCon China Shanghai
- 2025-11-04 => 2025-11-05 ROSCon España 2025
- 2025-11-10 => 2025-11-11 PX4 Developer Summit
- 2025-11-17 => 2025-11-20 Joint ROSCon Germany and France
- 2025-12-06 ML For Systems (i.e. robotics) at NeuralIPS
News
- ROSCon 2025: New Advanced Submission Lightning Talks + Early Bird Tickets
- Save the Date: Gazebo Jetty Test and Tutorial Party & Kickoff Meeting
- ROS PMC Meeting Minutes for 2025-08-12
- Gazebo PMC Meeting Minutes 2025-08-11
- Ros-controls PMC Meeting Minutes 2025-08-13
- ROS Kerala | Building a Robotics Career in the USA
- ROSCon 2025: New Advanced Submission Lightning Talks + Early Bird Tickets
- Robot Videos: SCUTTLE Robot, Laundry Folding, and More
- How Project CETI uses drones to humanely tag sperm whales
- North American robot orders steady in the first half of 2025, reports A3
- Simbe makes Tally more effective in fresh departments with latest update
- DigiKey, onsemi discuss the intersection of robotics and physical AI
- The FPA announces a pilot bugfix rewards program
ROS
Survey Paper: Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotics- ROS 2 Performance Benchmarking
- A step-by-step guide to migrating ROS 1 to ROS 2
- PX4 Autopilot Release v1.16
- New packages for Kilted Kaiju 2025-08-13
- UBLOX ZED-X20P Integration Complete - 25Hz NavSatFix
- Localization of ROS 2 Documentation
- How to Make TurtleBot Respond to Natural Language Commands in Real Time
- RMW-RMW bridge - is it possible, has anyone done it?
- Nix-ros-flake for development with ros2 rust
- Bagel’s New Release with Cursor Integration
- Open-sourcing ROS 1 code from RUVU (AMCL reimplementation, planners, controllers and more)
- Native rcl::tensor type
- Fixed Position Recording and Replay for AgileX PIPER Robotic Arm
- The Innovative Brown-Conrady Camera Model
- Building a ROS 2 based Autonomous Robot platform for snowplowing
- ROS 2 rcldart bindings for Flutter and Dart language
- Tackling ROS 2 Networking Challenges
- Weekly Robotics #323
- CVPR 2025 Sparse Voxels Rasterization: Real-time High-fidelity Radiance Field Rendering
Got a minute? 
Want to get involved with ROS core development?
Below you’ll find a list of feature requests that came in recently. These features have been triaged by the team and we would like to get them into the next release. We need volunteers from the community to make it happen.