ROS News for the Week of August 25th, 2025
On Wednesday we kicked off the
Gazebo Jetty Test and Tutorial Party. We would love your help testing the Gazebo Jetty Release. The top 20 contributors get either free Gazebo Jetty Swag or OSRA membership. Every contributor get’s their name included in our release notes.
Next week’s events: Boston Robot Hackers Monthly Meeting and CogniPilot Conference and ROS Midwest Meetup at Purdue.
Check this out: ICEY, A new ROS 2 client API for modern asynchronous programming using async/await in C++ 20.
The cat is out the bag! When you arrive at Changi airport in Singapore for ROSCon 2025 all of the robots you’ll see are dispatched by our Open-RMF project.
Check out this “vibe-coded” ROS 2 bag-based LIDAR / Camera cross calibration tool.
Events
- 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 MoveIt Pro Works Here: Charles River Analytics leads cutting-edge AI and robotics research
- 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
- 2025-09-16 PickNik Robotics Turns 10 Party
- 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
- Autoware Turns 10 - A Decade of Open-Source Autonomy (Video)
- Gazebo PMC Meeting Minutes 2025-08-25
- ROS PMC Minutes for August 26, 2025
- ROS PMC Minutes for August 19, 2025
- John Deere strengthens agrobotics portfolio with GUSS acquisition
- Blue Water Autonomy nets $50M to build autonomous ships
- Robotics investments top $4.3B in July 2025
- Primech launches upgraded bathroom cleaning robot
- Robomart unveils new delivery robot with $3 flat fee to challenge DoorDash, Uber Eats
- Changi Airport Runs on Open-RMF
- Autoware: An open-source autonomous highway pilot system for privately owned vehicles
- NVIDIA Blackwell-Powered Jetson Thor Now Available
- Weekly Robotics #326
- ACM ByteCast Ep 73: Maja Matarić
ROS
- Gazebo Jetty Test and Tutorial Party Instructions
- Vision-Language-Action Models and the Search for a Generalist Robot Policy
- How to Simulate a Mobile Robot in Gazebo
- Don’t trust LLM math with your rosbags? Bagel has a solution
- New Nav2 API Docs
- Guidance Nav2 for similar project: straight lines trajectory
- Dynamic World Generator Wizard – Open-source tool for creating dynamic Gazebo worlds
- ROS 2 launch GUI
- ElevoraBot – Autonomous Delivery Robot with Elevator Integration
- Ros-python-wheels: pip-installable ROS 2 packages
- Native rcl::tensor type
- ICEY: A new ROS 2 client API for modern asynchronous programming using async/await in C++ 20
- Think Outside the Box: Controlling a Robotic Arm with a Mobile Phone Gyroscope
- LiDAR-Camera Calibration using ROS 2 mcap recordings. A vibe coding project.
- Which SLAM algorithm should I choose?
- DDS FORGE: DDS Configuration Wizard - source
- A light-weight, pythhonic ROS 2 package to connect the genesis simulator and ROS 2
- ROS 2 DriverL ICR247/idec-ez-wheel
- Do Humanoid Robots Need Legs? The Surprising Logic Behind Robot Design Choices(Video)
Rust bindings for ROS 2 v. 0.5.0 release -rosidl_generator_rs- MEVITA: Open-Source Bipedal Robot Assembled from E-Commerce Components via Sheet Metal Welding
- ROS 2 Installation — Isaac Sim Documentation
- DINOv3: Self-supervised learning for vision at unprecedented scale
- Introduction to Robot Operating System ROS 2 (Video)
- Repo for the World robot olympiad competition for the mathbot team
- RexP1 Takes Shape With 3D Printed Body And Blender Magic (Video)
