ROS News for the Week of October 20th, 2025
ROSCon starts this coming Monday! Besides the main ROSCon talks and workshops happening at the event itself there are dozens of other events organized by our community members and sponsors that you should check out. On Monday there are free ROSCon mini-workshops and our free ROSCon birds of a feather sessions. On Wednesday our friends at Autoware have organized a ROSCon after party. On Friday, October 31st, there is the Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology (SWITCH) event and an all day post-ROSCon hackathon organized by our local meetup group.
Make sure to checkout the Whova App for meetups and dinners organized by the ROS community. (Yes, we know, no one wants to install an app. We we’re skeptical at first too but this one is shockingly good.)
We will have a livestream available on the ROSCon website. An announcement will go out on Tuesday morning as soon as the stream is live.
The OSRA has approved a new Robotics Enhancement Proposal (REP) process to replace the current ROS Enhancement Proposal (REP) process. The new REP process is largely a cosmetic and procedural update to the old REP process; it expands REPs to cover all five OSRA projects and clarifies the REP ratification process.
ROSCon China kicks off next Thursday in Shanghai!
We had another ROS 2 / Le Robot interface drop this week. Rosetta is a ROS 2 package that standardizes the interface between ROS 2 topics and LeRobot policies using a small YAML contract.
Looking for a ROS 2 telemetry solution? @szobov just released a new repository that is, “a production-grade integration library for instrumenting ROS 2 applications with OpenTelemetry’s distributed tracing and observability capabilities. This project provides a comprehensive toolchain for building, deploying, and monitoring ROS 2 workspaces with native OpenTelemetry support for both C++ and Python nodes.”
Events
- 2025-10-27 Free ROSCon mini-Workshops
- 2025-10-27 Free ROSCon Birds of a Feather Sessions
- 2025-10-29 Autoware ROSCon After Party
- 2025-10-27 => 2025-10-29 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
- 2025-12-18 => 2025-12-20 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
Launch of the OSRA’s new Robotics Enhancement Proposal (REP) process- Gazebo PMC Meeting Minutes 2025-10-20
- Robotics Engineering: You ONLY Need to KNOW Robot Operating System (Video)
- GrayMatter Robotics opens physical AI innovation center
- Oso Electric Equipment acquires Electric Sheep Robotics
- Serve Robotics could bring in up to $100M from stock sale
- Diligent Robotics joins AgeTech Collaborative from AARP Accelerator Program
- What If Robots Actually Did the Most Important Jobs in the World? (Video)
- Open Navigation and 3Laws Partner to Advance the Future of Safe, Scalable Robotics
- Hands-On Workshop with ROS 2 and MoveIt Pro at ROSCon 2
- ROSCon 2025 Walkthrough: What to Watch & Key Takeaways
- New ROS upskilling program
- NVIDIA at ROSCon 2025
ROS
- Announcing GitHub syntax highlighting for ROS msg files
- Announcing rosetta: a ROS 2 ⇄ LeRobot bridge
- ROS 2 x OpenTelemetry: End‑to‑End Telemetry for Robotics
- LiDAR Odometry ROS 2 Wrapper
- Probabilistic Kernel Optimization for Robust State Estimation
- Introduction to ROS Part 5: Services, Requests, and Responses with Python from DigiKey
- Virtual RobotX (VRX) updated to Jetty
- Converting the EuRoC MAV Dataset to MCAP and visualizing SLAM using Foxglove.
- Evaluate Lidar-Inertial Odometry
- DQ-NMPC: Dual-Quaternion NMPC for Quadrotor Flight
- Nature Robotics: Integrating CAD and extended robotics for masonry restoration
- SDF File 2 Map Package
- Introducing:
ros2_fmt_logger - Gamepad Teleoperation for Robotic Arm
- New packages for Humble Hawksbill 2025-10-20
- New Packages for ROS 2 Rolling Ridley 2025-10-22
- transAct: An open-source robot fleet management dashboard template
- Extending meta-ros with ROS 2 + openembedded (yocto)
- ManyMove v0.2.0 - Setup with Docker container and unified main branch
- Announcing new MoveIt2 Isaac SIM tutorial
- Announcing DepthAI ROS 2 Kilted Driver Release for Luxonis OAK cameras
- RclGo v0.4.1 Release
- SDF2MAP → Generate ROS 2D Maps Directly from GzSim Worlds
- Gazebo Jetty conda-forge packages are available
- Teaching Robotics with ROS 2: Lessons, Platforms and Perspective
- A Multi-Sensor Calibration Tool using ROS 2 mcap recordings with direct URDF export.
- X-VLA Soft-Prompted Transformer as Scalable Cross-Embodiment Vision-Language-Action Model
- Rovium IDE - The Modern IDE for ROS & Robotics Development
- RoboChallenge - a unified, open and large scale real-robot-based benchmark platform for embodied intelligence
- Le Robot robotics ourse
Got a Minute? 
Here’s a teaser slide from my ROSCon talk. I reference one of my favorite tech talks ever. If you find yourself with some free time this week why not “sharpen your tools.”
