ROS News for the Week of September 15th, 2025
Congratulations to our colleagues in the Edinburgh on a successful inaugural ROSCon UK!
2025-09-25 ROS By-The-Bay September 2025
Our next ROS By-The-Bay meetup is scheduled for next Thursday!
@ShawnHymel is back this week with the second episode in his twelve part ROS 2 Jazzy video series.
Want a quick mobile UI for your robot? Check out RoboBoy, a web application for controlling ROS 2 robots, tailored for mobile use.
There’s now a ROS 2 integration with the DINOv3 perception backbone.
AutoAPMS, is a streamlined behavior development and automated action management tool for ROS 2.
Events
- 2025-09-23 Foxglove Actuate Conference – 10% Off with code “ROS10”
- 2025-09-25 ROS By-The-Bay September 2025
- 2025-09-25 ROS Medical Community Talk: ROS-powered robots can be safe: practical advice on medical robots
- 2025-09-25 Aerial Robotics Meeting
- 2025-09-26 Mass Robotics Career Fair
- 2025-09-27 RoboBoston the largest celebration of robots and robotics
- 2025-10-1 CFP IEEE Service Learning Grants, Robot Accessibility
- 2025-10-27 =>2025-10-30 ROSCon Singapore
- 2025-10-30 => 2025-10-31 ROSCon China Shanghai
- 2025-11-04 => 2025-11-05 ROSCon España 2025
- 2025-11-06 Unitree G1 Humanoid Robot Certificate Training in Barcelona, Spain
- 2025-11-10 => 2025-11-11 PX4 Developer Summit
- 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
News
- Announcing the First Ever ROSCon UK!
Brian Heater’s Automated Podcast (former editor of robotics at TechCrunch, now at A3)- Nine More Robot Arms Now Have ROS 2 Drivers, Including FANUC and Kawasaki
- 2025 PX4 Summit Schedule Released
- Figure reaches $39B valuation in latest funding round – IEEE Spectrum
- Live demo fails, AI safety wins, and the Golden Age of Robotics
- Sonair built its 3D ultrasonic sensor with robotic safety in mind
- Figure reaches $39B valuation in latest funding round
- This $30M startup built a dog crate-sized robot factory that learns by watching humans
- Gecko Robotics releases StratoSight drone-based roof inspection system
- Rethink Robotics shuts down – again
- Icarus raises $6.1M to use robots to supplement space labor
ROS and Robotics
- ROS MCP Server Release!
- Streamlined behavior development and automated action management for ROS 2.
- GSoC 2025: Improvements to ROS 2 Tracing
- Remote Omniverse HITL via Zenoh DDS
- Plot Juggler Release 3.12.0 – Please Give Plot Juggler a star, they are trending today!
- Full pipeline Isaac SIM → isaac_ros_foundationpose → ManyMove
- Introduction to ROS YouTube Video Series
- Cloud Robotics: Logging and Observability
- New packages for Jazzy Jalisco 2025-09-19
- Built a browser-based tool to assemble robots & export URDFs in minutes
- Implementation of Forward and Inverse Kinematics for AgileX PiPER Robotic Arm Using Eigen Linear Algebra Library
- ROS 2 Robot CI Framework Library
- Getting Started with ROS 2 Services and Topics
- A web application for controlling ROS 2 robots, tailored for mobile use
- An Opinionated Overview of Open-Source Robotics (Video)
- A simple tool to generate Gazebo terrain using satellite images and DEM data
- ROS 2 integration with Meta’s DINOv3 backbone
OceanSim: A GPU-Accelerated Underwater Robot Perception Simulation Framework- Using mathematical expression in ROS 2 parameters
- Autonomous Trash Can using LeKiwi
- Cloudini Release 0.7.0
- Intro to Homogenous Transforms
- Process GNSS / LIDaR data from raw files
- Pico ROS client libraries
- DORA (Dataflow-Oriented Robotic Architecture): streamline and simplify the creation of AI-based robotic applications
- Demo motion primitives from trajectory controller with UR (Video)
- RealSense SDK 2.0 beta (v2.57.3)
- BlenderFusion: 3D-Grounded Visual Editing and Generative Compositing
- HiMo: High-Speed Objects Motion Compensation in Point Clouds
Got a Minute? 
We really could use some help with the backlog of issues in the ROS 2 Documentation.
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