ROS News for the Week of August 4th, 2025
Quick reminder: discounted early bird registration for ROSCon 2025 ends August 17th! Workshops are effectively free if you register before the deadline!
There has been an explosion of commercial and open hardware robotic hands in the past year. As far as I am aware this ROS 2 control driver for the PSYONIC Ability Hand is the first open source example of how to integrate a hand with MoveIt and ROS 2 Control.
I’ve been waiting for someone in the community to cook this up! There is finally a bridge between LeRobot and ROS! Check out Lerobot-ros: a lightweight interface for controlling ROS-based robotic arms using LeRobot
Not all great software tools have to be complex or complicated, in fact some of the best ones are rather simple. I was really impressed with this tool to convert PGM to SDF files. Using this tool you can quickly drop your Nav2 map into Gazebo and begin simulating using a realistic map of your environment!
Events
- 2025-08-11 Cloud Robotics Group: Bagel, the Open Source Project
- 2025-08-11 ROS 2 Rust Meeting: August 2025
- 2025-08-18 ROS OpenEmbedded Community Group
- 2025-09-01 PX4 Summit Call For Proposals (CFP)
- 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
- Discounted Early Bird Registration for ROSCon 2025 Ends August 17th!
- The House That Built the Future: A Short History of Willow Garage
- Why do robotics companies choose not to contribute to open source?
- Gazebo Policy Update: New Feature/Code Freeze Policy
- ROS PMC Minutes for August 5, 2025
- Gazebo PMC Meeting Minutes 2025-08-04
- OSRA’s Technical Governance Committee Approves $250,000 Funding for Infrastructure and Documentation Enhancement
- When Robots Take Over the Office
- Robot Videos: Exploration Robots, House Builders, More
- Can iRobot bounce back? Deep concerns overshadow $127M Q2
- Orbbec touts Pulsar ME450 as a multi-pattern 3D lidar
- FORT Robotics adds $18.9M to Series B funding for robotic safety
- Agility Robotics, Boston Dynamics see leadership changes
- LimX Dynamics launches LimX Oli full-size humanoid robot
ROS
Lerobot-ros: a lightweight interface for controlling ROS-based robotic arms using LeRobot- Navigating with EasyNav (MPPI Controller)
- Space ROS Jazzy 2025.07.0 Release
- BlueOS ROS 2 Extension bridges ROS 2 with ArduPilot-based vehicles
- ROS 2 control driver for the PSYONIC Ability Hand.
- Convert_PGM_to_SDF (Nav to Sim Tool)
- BirdWatch – Cross-Platform GUI for remote monitoring and top-level robot control
- ROS 2 Cross-compilation / Multi architecture development
- Drive by Dock Robotics (Beta) – Mobile Teleop for ROS 1 & 2 Robots
- ROS SG Meetup Recording on YouTube
- better_launch: a replacement for the ROS 2 launch system - intuitive, simple, memorable
- Proposal: Standardized Hardware Status Reporting in ros2_control
- A Dockerfile and a systemd service for starting a rmw-zenoh server
- Cargo ros-new and cargo ros-add plugin
- How to Implement End-to-End Tracing in ROS 2 (Nav2) with OpenTelemetry for Pub/Sub Workflows?
- Crosstalk - Serial data exchange
- New packages for ROS 2 Rolling Ridley 2025-08-03
- New ROS 2 Book release: Mastering ROS 2 for Robotics Programming
- Space Station OS v0.8.4: Mission Control demo with OpenMCT + ROS 2
- Online Range Image-based Pole Extractor for Long-term LiDAR Localization in Urban Environments
- Design Optimization of Three-Dimensional Wire Arrangement Considering Wire Crossings for Tendon-driven Robots
- Detailed explanation of ROS 2 Executor (Japanese)
- Buying Large LiFePO4 Batteries: How Cheap Is Too Cheap?
- Building Robotic Mental Models with NVIDIA Warp and Gaussian Splatting
- linorobot2: Autonomous mobile robots (2WD, 4WD, Mecanum Drive)
- ROS for Pros: Setting up Docker workspaces with RTW
- A generic and configurable pipeline for 3D point cloud processing using PCL
- Simulation environment for multiagent drone systems using Ardupilot, ROS 2, and Gazebo
- Graphical User Interface for remote monitoring and top-level control of UAVs.
- RGBD OakCamera RTABMap
- Arduino Library Browser
- JKK - Vehicle Industry Research Center
- Python ROS Bridge library
Want to lend us a hand? 
- We need someone to help us with this known RCLPy executor bug that’s been sitting for a while.
- Last week we had an AI fuzzer report that there is an out of bounds memory error in RWM Cyclone. We would love a PR to fix this issue.
