ROS News for the Week of October 13th, 2025
ROSCon 2025 is less than two weeks away. We’ve released our
sponsor workshops for the first day of ROSCon. Tickets are still available.
Our colleagues in Singapore plan to host a ROS Hackathon immediately after ROSCon. All are welcome!
Terminal User Interfaces (TUIs) are all the rage right now. Check out Hector Recorder a terminal based ROSBag UI.
Don’t want to pay for a joystick? Check out this new RQT-based virtual joystick controller.
Need a better way to visualize quaternions in RViz? Check out this new RViz2 plugin for visualizing quaternion-based orientation data with aviation-style attitude indicators and real-time Euler angle conversion.
OSRA Member, OpenNav LLC supporter, and ROSCon UK sponsor Dexory have raised a $165M round to scale their real-time warehouse intelligence, visibility and autonomous solutions. Congrats to the whole Dexory team!
Events
- 2025-10-27 =>2025-10-30 ROSCon Singapore
- 2025-10-30 Speed Mentoring @ International Women in Robotics Day Celebration Tickets
- 2025-10-30 => 2025-10-31 ROSCon China Shanghai
- 2025-10-31 Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology (SWITCH) 2025
- 2025-10-31 SG ROS MEETUP: Post ROSCon Hackathon
- 2025-10-31 => 2025-11-01 Southwest Robotics Symposium 2025
- 2025-11-04 => 2025-11-05 ROSCon España 2025
- 2025-11-06 Unitree G1 Humanoid Robot Certificate Training in Barcelona, Spain
- 2025-11-07 ROS Meetup Bogotá Colombia
- 2025-11-10 ROSCon India 2025 Call for Proposals
- 2025-11-10 => 2025-11-11 PX4 Developer Summit
- 2025-11-11 Boston Robot Hackers Monthly Meeting
- 2025-11-17 => 2025-11-18 ROS-Industrial Conference EU 2025
- 2025-11-17 => 2025-11-20 Joint ROSCon Germany and France
- 2025-12-06 ML For Systems (i.e. robotics) at NeuralIPS
- 2025-12-?? ROSCon India 2025 Pune
- 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
News
- ROS PMC Minutes for October 14, 2025
- Robot Videos: Multimodal Robot, Spot’s Strong Arm, More
Dexory Raises $165 million to Scale AI-Powered Warehouse Intelligence Platform- iRobot Roomba History: How a Focus Group Changed It
- Diligent Robotics joins AgeTech Collaborative from AARP Accelerator Program
- HavocAI obtains $85M to scale autonomous marine systems
- Revolute Robotics brings in $1.9M to deploy its driving, flying robots
- Ati Motors releases Sherpa Mecha dual-armed mobile manipulator for manufacturing
- Official vote for the new name of bevy-impulse
ROS
- AS2FM: Enabling Statistical Model Checking of ROS 2 Systems for Robust Autonomy
- ROS Enabled Non-Destructive Testing for Aerospace Manufacturing (Video)
- rviz_attitude_plugin: RViz2 plugin for aviation-style attitude indicators and real-time Euler angle conversion
- RQt Virtual Joystick — Smooth Robot Control Without Hardware
- Telegraf_resource_monitor: System Monitoring Node for ROS 2
- Full pipeline Isaac SIM → isaac_ros_foundationpose → ManyMove
- Hector Recorder: A terminal-based rosbag UI
- ROS 2 support for Daheng Imaging VEN’s cameras
- Upcoming switch of Windows installation to pixi/conda
- Announcing DepthAI ROS 2 Kilted Driver Release for Luxonis OAK cameras
- robotdatapy: A Python package for loading/processing ROS1/2 bag data
- New Packages for Jazzy Jalisco 2025-10-14
- Announcing Robot Lock: coordinate work on dev robots
- Ros2_control stable release for Kilted Kaiju
- robotdatapy: A Python package for loading/processing ROS1/2 bag data
- Building Scalable ROS 2 Applications with Microservice Architecture
- Humanoid Everyday Dataset
- Dockerfiles to provide HTML5 VNC interface to access Ubuntu Desktop + ROS 2
- New LeRobot Dataset Tools
- ROS overlay for the Nix package manager
- autonomous-valet-parking: Framework for Autonomous Valet Parking (AVP) with Autoware
- Rovium The Modern IDE for ROS & Robotics Development
Got a minute? 
- We could use some help building a ROS Service that loads RViz2 Config files.
- RViz2 has a fairly substantial backlog of issues and feature requests that need to be addressed. If you are looking to pitch in why not grab one of the outstanding tickets.