ROS News for the Week of December 8th, 2025
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This week our colleagues at RAI released SynchROS2, a package designed to make synchronization in ROS 2 easier, faster, and more reliable. The SynchROS2 package allows for locking in callbacks without creating deadlocks and looping through messages in real time, while providing single node per process semantics like ROS 1. If you are interested in how RAI uses SynchROS2, you can check out their awesome ROSCon 2025 talk here.
We’re big fans of trains here at Open Robotics and we are super excited for our colleagues in France who just released this awesome video of their ROS-based railway inspection robot.
This week our colleagues at Luxonis took the plunge and became members of the OSRA! The Luxonis team has been a huge supporter of ROS since its inception, and we’re really excited to have them join us. They just released a brand new version of their wildly popular OAK-D depth cameras, the OAK-D 4 Pro.
Events
- 2025-12-17 Siggraph Asia Accelerating ROS 2 Workloads With NVIDIA GPU-Powered Libraries and Generative AI Models
- 2025-12-18 MoveIt Community Meeting
- 2025-12-18 => 2025-12-20 ROSCon India 2025 Pune
- 2026-01-06 => 2026-01-07 The 7th UK Robot Manipulation Workshop
- 2026-01-30 Dronecode + Septentrio Meetup: Leuven, Belgium
- 2026-1-31 => 2026-02-01 FOSDEM - Robot Dev Room
- 2026-04-17 Intrinsic AI for Industry Challenge Deadline
- 2026-07-29 => 2026-08-04 IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems in Prague
- 2026-05-23 => 2026-05-24 Open Hardware Summit 2026 in Berlin
CFP Now Open! - Community meeting: Accelerating Physics-Based Multibeam Sonar Simulation for Underwater Robotics on CUDA
News
FP3-IAM4RAIL - PRIME, an Autonomous Robot Serving the Railway Network (Video)- The Code That Revolutionized Orbital Simulation (Video)
- Kicking Robots (Harpers)
- I Hate Cleaning Up so I Built This Monstrosity (Video)
- Meet SwagBot, an AI-powered agriculture robot that runs with the herd in Australia (Video)
- Zebra Technologies winding down Fetch-based mobile robot group
- Transforming solar farms: AI, robotics, and industry partnerships at AES
- From iCub to humanoids: Generative Bionics raises $81M
- Skana Robotics unveils Alligator autonomous amphibious vessel
- igus designs ReBeLMove modular mobile robot, new energy chain
- Civ Robotics provides CivNav AI navigation for solar construction systems
- Melonee Wise to lead KUKA’s new software and AI organization
- Ghost Robotics Adds Arm to Vision 60 Quadruped
- Videos: Musculoskeletal Robot Dogs, Robot Snails, More
- Weekly Robotics #338
- Hello from Brisbane - New Local User Groups
- Clearpath 2025 Round-Up: Husky A300, Partnerbot, and Community
- ROBORACER @ CDC-TF 2025 - AutoDRIVE Ecosystem
- 2025 BEHAVIOR Challenge Leaderboard
ROS
- Simulating Drones with ROS 2 and Gazebo: A Bebop 2 Tutorial
- DDS in ROS 2: Consolidated User Insights
- MoveIt 2 Motion Planning Working on ROS 2 Kilted for macOS Apple Silicon
- What do you use for localization and mapping?
- Multi-map navigation system
- ROS 2 Kilted Running Natively on macOS Apple Silicon
- Journal of Open Source Software: MujocoROS2Control: Seamless MuJoCo Integration with ROS 2 for Robot Simulation and Control
- Announcing synchros2 from the RAI Institute!
- Announcing a new ROS 2 compatible Java library
- Introduction to ROS Part 10: Getting Started with TF2 and Turtlesim
- Introduction to ROS Part 11: TF2 Broadcasters and Listeners
- PLD: Self-Improving Vision-Language-Action Models
- Efficiently Reconstructing Dynamic Scenes One D4RT at a Time
- ROS 2 Claude Code Plugin
- NeurIPS 2025: SPIRAL: Semantic-Aware Progressive LiDAR Scene Generation and Understanding
- About “Q,” an open-source space station robot (Japanese)
- Streaming pipeline that enables Depth Anything 3 on long video sequences
- Arduino Opta OPC UA with Node‑RED | Arduino Project Hub
- Luxonis releases OAK4 depth camera
- Porting of Agilex robots to Gazebo Fortress / Harmonic
- Visual Geometry Benchmark for Depth-Anything-3
- Model Predictive Path Integral control algorithm for MeshNav.
- New Build Farm Backer Program & Infra Team Swag — Open Robotics
- Zenoh Users Meeting 25 (Video)
- Visual-Inertial Odometry using 360 Camera
- Fast LiDAR SLAM
- Self-contained Python wheels of ROS packages
Got a Minute 
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- Content filters are now in RCLPy and we’re looking for someone to add content filter capabilities to the ROS 2 CLI ahead of the Lyric release.
We’re drowning in PRs to review right now, and we could really use some help with second pull request reviews. If you have a few hours to spare, consider swinging by RCLCpp, RCLPy, or any repo in the ROS 2 org and taking a look at any PR you feel comfortable reviewing.
- If you’ve never contributed to ROS before, helping us review pull requests is a great way to familiarize yourself with the code and help us out at the same time.You do not need to be a maintainer or committer to do pull request reviews for any of the core ROS packages.