# ROS News for the Week of October 13th, 2025

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# ROS News for the Week of October 13th, 2025
  

 ![SponsorWorkshops](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/d/2/d233fffb9b53bb88b8d66f79c8a8e96768c0fdc1.png)  
[ROSCon 2025](https://roscon.ros.org/2025/) is less than two weeks away. We’ve released our 🆓 sponsor workshops for the first day of ROSCon. Tickets are still available.

  

 ![ROSSG-Oct25](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/0/a/0a9d008b32882188088901d98bc6314c951ab4c9.jpeg)  
Our colleagues in Singapore plan to [host a ROS Hackathon immediately](https://www.meetup.com/singapore-ros-meetup/events/311303026/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events) after ROSCon. All are welcome!

  

 ![0f5f8a36dcfae8454230749e71cd2e4e492be5c1_2_1035x496](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/d/e/de50a0a4838cf820acd59abcfb088bf0f6861a55.png)  
Terminal User Interfaces (TUIs) are all the rage right now. Check out [Hector Recorder a terminal based ROSBag UI](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/hector-recorder-a-terminal-based-rosbag-ui/50577).

  

 ![2025-10-17_15-08](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/e/1/e117fc2da48f82b781d7dc62bd9ba4b3b951ac04.png)  
Don’t want to pay for a joystick? Check out this new [RQT-based virtual joystick controller.](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-2-rqt-virtual-joystick-smooth-robot-control-without-hardware/50582)

  

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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.](https://github.com/amgaber95/rviz_attitude_plugin)

  

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/0/7/07121675659ec490208b3bb4580723fb7b42f088.png)  
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.](https://www.dexory.com/insights/strong-customer-demand-enables-dexory-to-secure-165m-in-funding) Congrats to the whole Dexory team!

# Events

- [2025-10-27 =\>2025-10-30 ROSCon Singapore](https://roscon.ros.org/2025/)
- [2025-10-30 Speed Mentoring @ International Women in Robotics Day Celebration Tickets](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/speed-mentoring-international-women-in-robotics-day-celebration-tickets-1759140369199)
- [2025-10-30 =\> 2025-10-31 ROSCon China Shanghai](https://roscon.cn/2025/)
- [2025-10-31 Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology (SWITCH) 2025](https://www.gevme.com/site/switch-2025-register-now)
- [2025-10-31 SG ROS MEETUP: Post ROSCon Hackathon](https://www.meetup.com/singapore-ros-meetup/events/311303026/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events)
- [2025-10-31 =\> 2025-11-01 Southwest Robotics Symposium 2025](https://swrobotics.engineering.asu.edu/)
- [2025-11-04 =\> 2025-11-05 ROSCon España 2025](https://roscon.org.es/ROSConES2025.html)
- [2025-11-06 Unitree G1 Humanoid Robot Certificate Training in Barcelona, Spain](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/unitree-g1-humanoid-robot-certificate-training-in-barcelona-spain-nov-6-7-2025/49981)
- [2025-11-07 ROS Meetup Bogotá Colombia](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-meetup-bogota-colombia-7-nov-2025/50210)
- [2025-11-10 ROSCon India 2025 Call for Proposals](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdSnIA4L9L41xyzbY86DwLT7Rg1dD904pw0X_lJIZnR-ONgug/viewform?pli=1)
- [2025-11-10 =\> 2025-11-11 PX4 Developer Summit](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/px4-developer-summit/register/)
- [2025-11-11 Boston Robot Hackers Monthly Meeting](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-robot-hackers-monthly-meeting-tickets-1489641520889)
- [2025-11-17 =\> 2025-11-18 ROS-Industrial Conference EU 2025](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-industrial-conference-2025/49920)
- [2025-11-17 =\> 2025-11-20 Joint ROSCon Germany and France](https://roscon.ros.org/fr/2025/)
- [2025-12-06 ML For Systems (i.e. robotics) at NeuralIPS](https://mlforsystems.org/)
- [2025-12-?? ROSCon India 2025 Pune](https://www.rosconindia.in/)
- [2026-07-29 =\> 2026-08-04 IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems in Prague](https://mrs.fel.cvut.cz/summer-school/index.html)
- [2026-05-23 =\> 2026-05-24 Open Hardware Summit 2026 in Berlin](https://2026.oshwa.org/)

# News

- [ROS PMC Minutes for October 14, 2025](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-pmc-minutes-for-october-14-2025/50533)
- [Robot Videos: Multimodal Robot, Spot’s Strong Arm, More](https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-multimodal-robot?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=hero&utm_campaign=hero-2025-10-17&utm_content=hero3)
- 🆒 [Dexory Raises $165 million to Scale AI-Powered Warehouse Intelligence Platform](https://www.dexory.com/insights/strong-customer-demand-enables-dexory-to-secure-165m-in-funding)
- [iRobot Roomba History: How a Focus Group Changed It](https://spectrum.ieee.org/irobot-roomba-history?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=hero&utm_campaign=hero-2025-10-17&utm_content=hero6)
- [Diligent Robotics joins AgeTech Collaborative from AARP Accelerator Program](https://www.therobotreport.com/diligent-robotics-joins-agetech-collaborative-aarp-accelerator-program/)
- [HavocAI obtains $85M to scale autonomous marine systems](https://www.therobotreport.com/havocai-obtains-85m-to-scale-autonomous-marine-systems/)
- [Revolute Robotics brings in $1.9M to deploy its driving, flying robots](https://www.therobotreport.com/revolute-robotics-brings-in-1-9m-deploy-driving-flying-robots/)
- [Ati Motors releases Sherpa Mecha dual-armed mobile manipulator for manufacturing](https://www.therobotreport.com/ati-motors-releases-sherpa-mecha-dual-armed-mobile-manipulator-manufacturing/)
- [Official vote for the new name of bevy-impulse](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/official-vote-for-the-new-name-of-bevy-impulse/50443/2)

# ROS

- [AS2FM: Enabling Statistical Model Checking of ROS 2 Systems for Robust Autonomy](https://arxiv.org/html/2508.18820v1)
- [ROS Enabled Non-Destructive Testing for Aerospace Manufacturing (Video)](https://vimeo.com/1123786342?fl=pl&fe=sh)
- [rviz\_attitude\_plugin: RViz2 plugin for aviation-style attitude indicators and real-time Euler angle conversion](https://github.com/amgaber95/rviz_attitude_plugin)
- [RQt Virtual Joystick — Smooth Robot Control Without Hardware](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-2-rqt-virtual-joystick-smooth-robot-control-without-hardware/50582)
- [Telegraf\_resource\_monitor: System Monitoring Node for ROS 2](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/telegraf-resource-monitor-system-monitoring-node-for-ros-2/49896/7)
- [Full pipeline Isaac SIM → isaac\_ros\_foundationpose → ManyMove](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/full-pipeline-isaac-sim-isaac-ros-foundationpose-manymove/50142/4)
- [Hector Recorder: A terminal-based rosbag UI](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/hector-recorder-a-terminal-based-rosbag-ui/50577)
- [ROS 2 support for Daheng Imaging VEN’s cameras](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros2-support-for-daheng-imaging-vens-cameras/50568/2)
- [Upcoming switch of Windows installation to pixi/conda](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/upcoming-switch-of-windows-installation-to-pixi-conda/41916/7)
- [Announcing DepthAI ROS 2 Kilted Driver Release for Luxonis OAK cameras](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/announcing-depthai-ros-2-kilted-driver-release-for-luxonis-oak-cameras/50546/2)
- [robotdatapy: A Python package for loading/processing ROS1/2 bag data](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/robotdatapy-a-python-package-for-loading-processing-ros1-2-bag-data/50453/5)
- [New Packages for Jazzy Jalisco 2025-10-14](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/new-packages-for-jazzy-jalisco-2025-10-14/50528)
- [Announcing Robot Lock: coordinate work on dev robots](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/announcing-robot-lock-coordinate-work-on-dev-robots/50513)
- [Ros2\_control stable release for Kilted Kaiju](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros2-control-stable-release-for-kilted-kaiju/50488)
- [robotdatapy: A Python package for loading/processing ROS1/2 bag data](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/robotdatapy-a-python-package-for-loading-processing-ros1-2-bag-data/50453/5)
- [Building Scalable ROS 2 Applications with Microservice Architecture](https://hackernoon.com/u/containerize)
- [Humanoid Everyday Dataset](https://humanoideveryday.github.io/)
- [Dockerfiles to provide HTML5 VNC interface to access Ubuntu Desktop + ROS 2](https://github.com/Tiryoh/docker-ros2-desktop-vnc)
- [New LeRobot Dataset Tools](https://huggingface.co/docs/lerobot/using_dataset_tools)
- [ROS overlay for the Nix package manager](https://github.com/lopsided98/nix-ros-overlay)
- [autonomous-valet-parking: Framework for Autonomous Valet Parking (AVP) with Autoware](https://github.com/zubxxr/autonomous-valet-parking)
- [Rovium The Modern IDE for ROS & Robotics Development](https://rovium.dev/)

# Got a minute? ⏰

- [We could use some help building a ROS Service that loads RViz2 Config files.](https://github.com/ros2/rviz/issues/1594)
- RViz2 has a fairly [substantial backlog of issues and feature requests that need to be addressed](https://github.com/ros2/rviz/issues). If you are looking to pitch in why not grab one of the outstanding tickets.

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