ROS News for the Week of October 27th, 2025
ROSCon 2025 is a wrap! We’ll see you all again September 22nd through the 24th 2026 in Toronto, Canada. ROSCon videos should be out in a couple of weeks, in the mean time there are the live streams.
- ROSCon 2025 Day 1 Stream A (Room Nicoll 1 - 3)
- ROSCon 2025 Day 1 Stream B (Room 324 - 326)
- ROSCon 2025 Day 2 Stream A (Room Nicoll 1 - 3)
- ROSCon 2025 Day 2 Stream B (Room 324 - 326)
If you are trying to understand why ROSCon was in Singapore this year, look no further than this article. Singapore’s National Robotics Programme reveals initiatives to advance robot adoption
Intrinsic launched a new challenge at ROSCon 2025. The challenge is to use ROS 2, your favorite simulator, and Intrinsic’s Flowstate to complete a series of electronics manufacturing tasks. Competitors who perform well in simulation will get a chance to apply their work to a real work cell. There’s a US$180k prize pool and you must register by 2026-04-17T07:00:00Z,
We’re moving all of our official project discussions over to the Zulip platform. See this post more information on how you can get connected and get involved.
Events
- 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
Singapore’s National Robotics Programme reveals initiatives to advance robot adoption- Open Robotics launches Zulip chat server
- Intrinsic AI for Industry Challenge
- NVIDIA Contributes to Open Frameworks for Next-Generation Robotics Development
- Building stronger connections between Intrinsic and ROS
- The Role of Open Source in Robotics - by Chris Paxton
- Moxi 2.0 mobile manipulator is built for AI, says Diligent Robotics
- Nauticus Robotics aims for deep-sea rare mineral exploration with $250M line of credit
- FIRA USA 2025 agricultural robotics event recap
- Starship Technologies obtains Series C for autonomous deliveries across the U.S.
- Bonsai Robotics launches Amiga robots at FIRA 2025
- Locus Robotics surpasses 6B robot-assisted picks, notes market momentum
- Scientists Must Push AI Toward Responsible AI
- Crowdfunding Tips from Crowd Supply’s Helen Leigh
- Announcing AMD - Nav2 Gold Sponsor — Open Navigation LLC
- ROS Asia Pacific Developer Meeting
- Stereolabs sponsors and showcases cutting-edge Robotic Perception and Vision AI Innovations at ROSCon 2025 in Singapore
- @emersonknapp
- ROSCon India Registration Open
ROS
- Butter-Bench: Evaluating LLM Controlled Robots for Practical Intelligence | Andon Labs
- Upcoming switch of Windows installation to pixi/conda
- Install ROS on Linux, Mac, and Windows with Pixi! (Video)
- Examples of using
pixiand the shebang trick to run complex scripts in a self-contained manner. - lidar_odometry_ros_wrapper: LiDAR Odometry ROS2 Wrapper
- EasyNavigation
- ros2_fmt_logger: A modern, ROS 2 logging library that provides fmt-style formatting as a replacement for RCLCPP logging macros
- An object detector model with the goal of detecting a single class fish from any image.
- Enhanced Safety for Nav2 using 3Laws Supervisor — Nav2 1.0.0 documentation
- Ryzen AI Dockerfiles for ML, Robotics and Development Environments
- ROS 2 Pick & Kick: Particle Tachyon + Edge Impulse YOLO-Pro
- Unified SLAM SDK for Robots
- urdfz: A tool for packing and unpacking URDFs into portable archives. URDF Zipped.
- Release Notes — Isaac ROS
- autonomous-valet-parking: Framework for Autonomous Valet Parking (AVP) with Autoware
- Free ROS 1 & ROS 2 Video Tutorials Released
- Roboreg: Marker-free hand-eye calibration
- Visualize your custom messages on RViz!
- GSoc 2025: Ray tracing enabled Faster-Than-Real-Time GPU based LiDAR plugin for Gazebo
- Announcement: rclrs 0.6.0 Release
- Blog post: Reproducible cross-platform ROS installation with Pixi
- Introducing
colcon_gephi– Generate Rich Dependency Graphs Compatible With Graph Visualization Tools - RKO-LIO: LiDAR-Inertial Odometry
- better_launch: a replacement for the ROS 2 launch system - intuitive, simple, memorable
- Behavior Tree ROS 2 package for Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot.
- rapyuta-robotics/rclUE
- mesh2gazebo: Building a simulator environment using mesh data of 3D Scan Applications
I’m on vacation next week so no news next week. =)