ROS News for the Week of November 17th, 2025
Byte Dance’s bleeding edge Depth Anything 3 paper and code were released about a week ago, and we already have a prototype ROS 2 package that you can download and use in your robot.
@ivanperez and his colleagues over at NASA have released OGMA v. 1.0. Ogma is an automated tool to facilitate the integration of safe runtime monitors into other systems. Ogma extends Copilot, which is high-level runtime verification framework that generates hard real-time C99 code. OGMA integrates with ROS and is designed to help developers meet NASA’s stringent software quality standards.
Our colleague @scastro has released a beta version of RoboPlan, a modern robot motion planning library based on Pinocchio.
@fmrico and his colleagues have released a free and open source workshop for their Easy Nav project. This is a great resource for anyone who is looking to get started with navigation using ROS 2.
Nikos Stathoulopoulos, a Ph.D Student at the Robotics & AI Group, Luleå University of Technology just released this fantastic set of Jupyter notebooks on the fundamentals of SLAM algorithms. This is a great resource to pair with Easy Nav tutorial mentioned previously.
We’ve got three great events coming up. Tomorrow, in Mountain View, Circuit Launch and Silicon Valley Robotics are hosting their annual robot block party (I’ll have a table and be handing out ROS swag). Next Wednesday, our GSoC student @Helena_Moyen will be presenting her work on improving SONAR simulations using CUDA at the Gazebo Community Meeting, and the following Wednesday I’ll be hosting our December ROS By-The-Bay meetup with a special guest speaker from 3Laws robotics.
Events
- 2025-11-22 Circuit Launch / Silicon Valley Robotics – Robot Block Party – BBQ & Robot Boxing
- 2025-11-24 Cracow Robotics & AI Meetup
- 2025-11-26 November 2025 Gazebo Community Meeting - CUDA for Faster Sonar in Gazebo
- 2025-12-03 ROS By-The-Bay December 2025 w/ 3Laws Robotics
- 2025-12-06 ML For Systems (i.e. robotics) at NeuralIPS
- 2025-12-18 => 2025-12-20 ROSCon India 2025 Pune
- 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
- Community meeting: Accelerating Physics-Based Multibeam Sonar Simulation for Underwater Robotics on CUDA
News
- Gazebo PMC Meeting Minutes 2025-11-17
- ROS-controls PMC meeting 19th November 2025
- ROS PMC Minutes for November 11, 2025
- ROS PMC Minutes for November 18, 2025
- ROSGraph Working Group kickoff
- Invitation: Multi-Robot Systems Summer School 2026 (Prague)
- New Nav2 Sponsors & New Member of Nav2’s Core Maintenance Team!
- Foxconn and Intrinsic launch joint venture at Hon Hai Tech Day 2025
- Foxconn, Intrinsic building flexible robots for U.S. factories
- The Fascination With Robots Folding Clothes Explained
- Terahertz Radar: A New Era in Auto Safety
- Robot Videos: Baseball Bots, UBTECH Walker, and More
- Armstrong Robotics wants to create general purpose kitchen robots, starting with dishwashing
- Bedrock Robotics announces autonomous excavation milestone
- North American robot orders increase in Q3 2025, reports A3
- Teradar emerges from stealth with terahertz vision sensor, Series B funding
- California agencies eye BurnBot for wildfire prevention
- Google DeepMind Hires Former CTO of Boston Dynamics as the Company Pushes Deeper Into Robotics
- Discoverability of documentation on search engines
- Linux Foundation ELISA project: Robotics and Space Grade Linux at ROSCon 2025
- PX4 Dev Summit Keynote: Open Robotics Project Updates
- Weekly Robotics #336
ROS
Depth Anything 3 ROS 2 Wrapper Development- hello-slam: A beginner-friendly SLAM mini-course with Jupyter notebooks
- roboplan: Modern robot motion planning library based on Pinocchio
- Free ASTM Introduction to Robot Standards
- Easy Navigation ROSCon 2025 Workshop
- NASA OGMA 1.0: Generate runtime monitors for flight and robotics applications
- NVIDIA Isaac ROS 4.0 for Thor has arrived
- ros2tree: ROS 2 CLI tool to view node / topic tree
- Jetson Stats: a simple package for monitoring and control your NVIDIA Jetson
- R’DASH (Robot Information Telemetry Transport Dashboard)
- foxglove-depth-rvl: schema message converter for RVL compressedDepth to Foxglove native format
- SDF2MAP convert SDF files to Nav2 Maps
- GraspGen: Real-Time 6D Pose Generation & Grasp Planning Toolkit (TensorRT + YOLOv8-Seg)
- Building a true release mode only
- New packages for Kilted Kaiju 2025-11-17
- New Packages for Jazzy Jalisco 2025-11-19
- New ROS 2 and Raspberry Pi course
- Autonomous Mine Examination Rover
- Training-free “find-by-name” navigation API for mobile robots (alpha users wanted)
- What happened at the PX4 Developer Summit 2025 in Atlanta (Video)
- Hand-Track Robot: ROS 2 + Rubik Pi 3 + Edge Impulse YOLO-Pro
- PlatypusBot Gets a Raspberry Pi + ROS 2 Upgrade
- ROS Industrial Scan-N-Plan Workshop
- osi-ros2-bridge: Publish ASAM OSI ground truth and feature data as ROS 2 messages
- open_echo: open hardware / software echo sounder / depth sounder / SONAR for bathymetry and research
- lidar_inertial_odometry: Tightly-Coupled Lidar Inertial Odometry
- lang2pick: General Purpose Robotic Manipulator using ROS 2 and LeRobot
- NeuralIPS 2025: Tracking and Understanding Object Transformations
- Extending meta-ros with ros2 + openembedded (yocto)
- The State of ROS Remote Debugging in 2025: Are We Still Stuck with SSH X11 and Fragile Tunnels? (Survey)
- Actuate 2025: ROS vs DIY: Should You Build on ROS or Start from Scratch? (Video)
- Axioma Robot: SLAM + Nav2 + Gazebo
- AI-powered R2-D2 companion bot
- ROS 2-Based Framework for Semi-Automatic Vector Map Creation in Autonomous Driving Systems
- Python implementation of MPPI (Model Predictive Path-Integral) controller
- ROS 2 Package to work with the robot G1 from unitree
- AlohaMini: Open-Source Dual-Arm Mobile Robot with Motorized Lift
- CVPR 2025: Real-time dense scene reconstruction with SLAM3R
- Segment Anything Model (SAM) 3
- Segment Anything Model (SAM) 3D
- Introduction to ROS Part 9: Launch Files
Got a Minute? 
- We need some help fixing const test interfaces for ROS IDL.
- We need some help updating the ROS 2 Documentation about events executors.
- We need someone to write a guide to setting up .gitignore files for ROS projects.
FYI No ROS news next week as it is a holiday in the US.