ROS News for the Week of August 18th, 2025
Our Gazebo Jetty Test and Tutorial Party kicks off next Wednesday, 2025-08-27T16:00:00Z! If you are looking to tip your toes into open source development, or just want to lend a hand, we would love to see you there!
The best part of my job is getting to watch people in the ROS community grow and succeed. @parzival was one of our ROSCon scholars a few years back, and now he’s just wrapped up his tenure at YC and launching a new startup, Fly Wheel AI. He’ll be at ROS By-The-Bay on Thursday to tell us about what he has been working on.
I came across this fantastic article from Meta’s AI team this week, “Small robots, mighty vision: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s DINOv2-enabled robot rovers and the future of planetary exploration”. NASA JPL has this cool Visual Perception Engine project for their robots, it is a fast and flexible framework designed to run multiple perception models in an optimized and concurrent manner on NVIDIA Jetson, and it even has hooks for ROS 2 Humble!
This week we have 
new OSRA members to announce this week: Canonical, Botsync, and Netatech. Canonical, long time supporter of ROS, is coming on as a platinum member!
Events
- 2025-08-27 Gazebo Jetty Test and Tutorial Party Kickoff
- 2025-08-28 ROS By-The-Bay August 2025
- 2025-09-01 PX4 Summit Call For Proposals (CFP)
- 2025-09-02 ROS Japan UG #59
- 2025-09-04 Boston Robot Hackers Monthly Meeting Tickets
- 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
- Canonical is now a platinum member in the Open Source Robotics Alliance
- Canonical Pushes Deeper Into the World of Robotics, Upgrades Its OSRA Membership
- Do Humanoid Robots Need Legs? The Surprising Logic Behind Robot Design Choices
- Gazebo PMC Meeting Minutes 2025-08-18
- Small robots, mighty vision: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s DINOv2-enabled robot rovers and the future of planetary exploration
- STEM Education in Africa: Engineering Student’s Story
- FieldAI raises $405M to build universal robot brains - The Robot Report
- Multiply Labs reduces biomanufacturing costs by 74% with UR cobots
- Inaugural World Humanoid Robot Games step into the spotlight
- Smart Glasses Aid Robot Learning
- The US Navy is building a drone fleet to take on China. It’s not going well.
- Robotics Developer Masterclass Batch 8
ROS
Announcement: rclrs 0.5.0 Release 
Multiverse: Decentralized Simulation Framework- NASA Visual Perception Engine: fast and flexible framework designed to run multiple perception models in an optimized and concurrent manner on NVIDIA Jetson
- StereoSA, a highly accurate and fast stereo matching model powered by multi-scale selective attention aggregation.
- ROS 2 MediaPipe Suite — parameterized multi-model node with landmarks & gesture events
- RMW-RMW bridge - is it possible, has anyone done it?
- Continuous Trajectory Recording and Replay for AgileX PIPER Robotic Arm
- Proposal: Standardized Hardware Status Reporting in ros2_control
- New packages and patch release for Jazzy Jalisco 2025-08-20
- Steps to add a 3D lidar to a turtlebot in Gazebo Harmonic
- Looking for beta testers: Video Recorder – a black box for your robots
- OEM Supported ROS 2 Driver Releases (i.e. Fanuc)
- JdeRobot RoboticsAcademy now supports pure ROS 2 solutions
- UBLOX ZED-X20 Integration Complete - 25Hz NavSatFix
- New packages for Humble Hawksbill 2025-08-15
- Stemkeens Rosblockly: A Web-Based Platform for ROS 2 URDF Design and Simulation
- IoRT ROS 2 Applications: Evaluating Zenoh and VPN for Robotic Networking in the Edge-Cloud Continuum
- An Open-Platform Adapter to Integrate Da Vinci Si Instruments with Collaborative Robotic Systems for Educational and Research Applications – ROS / DaVinci Integration
- Agri-FM+: A Self-Supervised Foundation Model for Agricultural Vision
- EAIK: A Toolbox for Efficient Analytical Inverse Kinematics by Subproblem Decomposition
- The Innovative Brown-Conrady Model
- Franka Emika Panda packages for manipulation with MoveIt 2 inside Gazebo
- CAST: Counterfactual Labels Improve Instruction Following in Vision-Language-Action Models
- State-of-the-art Object Detection with RF-DETR
- XLeRobot 0.1 documentation
- CogniPlan: Uncertainty-Guided Path Planning with Conditional Generative Layout Prediction
- PyRoboSim Release 4.3.0
- KiCad 9.0.4 Release
- Release 4.57.2 · IntelRealSense ROS
Got a Minute? 
We’re going to need all hands on deck to test Gazebo Jetty!