ROS News for the Week of July 21st, 2025
The full ROSCon 2025 schedule has been published!. We recommend you register ASAP as ticket prices go up 2025-08-17T07:00:00Z. We still have like two or three sponsor slots left for 2025, so it is now or never if you like to have a booth at ROSCon.
It has been a busy week! Last weekend we organized a joint ROS / OSHWA / OpenCV booth for Open Sauce. It was an absolute blast! We also had a great ROS By-The-Bay event last night with speakers from Orangewood Robotics and Ember Robotics.
New week we have an Autoware Meetup Santa Clara on Tuesday, our regular Gazebo Community Meeting on Wednesday, and a ROS Meetup at Avidbots in Kitchner Ontario and a joint ROS / Dronecode Meetup in LA / El Segundo on Thursday. We also have a ROS Meetup in Singapore scheduled for August 6th.
It looks like @facontidavide has some competition! An talented young engineer has forked his Bonxai project to build Rolling-Bonxai: A rolling voxel grid implementation of Bonxai to handle large maps in ROS 2
The Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) released their workshops this year. One of their workshops will be Open-Source Hardware in the Era of Robot Learning. If you are building open robot hardware consider attending, and don’t forget to certify your open hardware!
Here is your cool tool of the week: Map_Enhancer_Wizard, a tool to enhance your occupancy grid maps and make them super awesome.
Events
- 2025-07-26 Mechanical Design for Robotics (Fusion 360)
- 2025-07-26 => 2025-08-01 ROS Summer School in China
- 2025-07-29 Autoware Meetup Santa Clara
- 2025-07-31 Canadian Robotics Council / ROS Meetup at Avidbots in Kitchner Ontario
- 2025-07-31 ROS / Dronecode Meetup in LA / El Segundo
- 2025-08-01 Vintage Computer Festival Mountain View
- 2025-08-03 Black in Robotics: Computer Vision and Robotics
- 2025-08-06 ROS Meetup Singapore - Academic Lightning Talks
- 2025-08-29 => 2025-09-05 ROS Summer School 2025 at FH Aachen
- 2025-09-09 ROSCon JP in Nagoya
- 2025-09-10 Autoware Con in Nagoya
- 2025-09-15 => 2025-09-17 Inaugral ROSCon UK in Edinburgh
- 2025-09-23 Foxglove Actuate Conference
- 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
- 2025-11-17 => 2025-11-20 Joint ROSCon Germany and France
News
- Full ROSCon 2025 Program Released
- A Decade in Motion. The First AutowareCon
- These robotics companies are hiring
- B O B A M A B O B Boba Robot
- Building the future of robotics with open-source and ROS 2
- The search is on: Help us find the most promising robotics startups
- Sponsoring open source project, what do you think?
- ROSCon España @Barcelona 4 y 5 de noviembre de 2025
- 2025 ROS Summer School in China, July 26- August 1 (Hangzhou)
- AgileX Robotics at 2025 ROS Summer School: PiPER & LIMO Hands-on Tracks and Schedule
- Weekly Robotics #322
- MarineRobotics: Data-Driven Science and Applications Workshop
- CoRL 2025: 2nd Workshop on Dexterous Manipulation
CoRL 2025: Open-Source Hardware in the Era of Robot Learning- Foxglove includes audio support in latest platform update
- Bonsai Robotics and farm-ng unite for intelligent farming solutions
- Teqram deploys automated grinding robot in 2 states with AMP
- Experts support Massachusetts bill to ban weaponized robots
- TRIC Robotics raises seed funding to help farmers control pests and plant disease
- ARM Institute seeks developers for RoboticsCareer.org
- Robot guard dogs help Asylon raise a $26M Series B
- Why Cartken pivoted its focus from last-mile delivery to industrial robots
- How TRIC Robotics is reducing pesticide use on strawberries using UV light
ROS
- Feature freeze for Gazebo Jetty
- Map_Enhancer_Wizard: Enhance your occupancy grid maps and make them super awesome.
- Rolling-Bonxai: A rolling voxel grid implementation of Bonxai to handle large maps in ROS 2
- RUKA: Rethinking the Design of Humanoid Hands with Learning
- Video: Full Manual Control with PX4 + ROS2 Teleop - source
- Multi-Robot Turtlebot3 Source Code
- BUNKER PRO 2.0 – Reinforced Tracked Chassis for Extreme Terrain
- Interactive Electronics With Dr. Jon Durant! – RexP1 - ROS 2 Astro Droid
- New packages for Humble Hawksbill 2025-07-22
- Colcon Building the OPEN_RMF workspace
- Mitsubishi Electric ROS 2 Community Discussion
- Open Source for Teleoperation for Imitation learning, Self-Collision Avoidance, Gravity Compensation, Friction Compensation and Spring Effect
- Remote (Between Internet Networks) Control of Robot Running Micro-ROS
- Online Course - Robotic Arm Control with ROS 2
- Simulating a Closed-Loop Robotic Manipulator in Gazebo
- ORB-SLAM3 Extension: Real-Time Sparse Map to Occupancy Grid (.yaml/.pgm) for ROS 2 Navigation
- ROS for Pros: Setting up RTW
- ROMAN: view-invariant global localization method
- Dens3R: A Foundation Model for 3D Geometry Prediction
- UA-MPC: Uncertainty-Aware Model Predictive Control for Motorized LiDAR Odometry
- Opening Articulated Structures
- Evaluation and Deployment Across the Robot Learning Lifecycle
- RoboCop: web-based control panel for UR3/UR3e robots
- Introduction to ROS 2 - Workshop materials and setup guide
- AmazingHand: Code and model to control the AH!
- Cugo ROS Robot Control Package
- Racing Into the Future: How Sim Racing Is Expanding Access to Autonomy
- Official Implementation of ARM4R ICML 2025
- Arduino: UWB-Activated Workspace and Equipment Control for Safety
- Real-Time AI Stereo Vision Library
- Setting up WSL-ROS-Unity to Test Pick & Place with Robot Arm
Got a Minute? 
We would absolutely love some help getting the ROS 2 Docs issue queue under 100 issues.