ROS News for the Week of September 1st, 2025
Get excited! ROSCon JP is next week in Nagoya! Our friends at Autoware are also hosting their first ever conference!
Our friends at DigiKey have worked with Shawn Hymel to put together a 12 part video series on using ROS 2 Jazzy to build your own robot. New episodes drop every Thursday!
Dave’s Armory is back with a DIY robotic boat that takes relaxation to the next level. Word on the street is that he is using ROS 2 Control to move the paddles.
@hmoyen, one of our lovely GSoC students, has put together a great Discourse post about her work porting and improving Project DAVE’s Physics-based Sonar Plugin for ROS 2 and Gazebo Harmonic .
Two new tools of note this week, Polymath Robotics has released ROS 2 Graph Monitor, a continuous snapshot of your robot’s state and @Trab40 has released Telegraf Resource Monitor, a system monitoring node for ROS 2.
ROSCon is less than two months away and ROSCon 2025 booths are officially sold out! We still have a few miscellaneous sponsorships available (like our fantastic app). We want to take a moment to thank our OSRA members who are also sponsoring ROSCon this year! 
- Gold Sponsors: AMD, Canonical, Dexory, Intrinsic, Netatech, NVidia, Qualcomm, Roboto AI, ROS-Industrial, Zettascale.
- Silver Sponsors: Botsync, Clearpath Robotics , Clutterbot, Foxglove, Huawei, Picknik.
- Bronze Sponsors: Apex.AI, Autoware Foundation, b-robotized, Ekumen, Locus Robotics, Nokia Bell Labs.
- Startup Alley Sponsor: Olive Robotics.
- LiveStream and Video Archive Sponsor: AMD.
- Refreshment Sponsor: b-robotized.
- Lunch Sponsors: AMD, Intrinsic.
- Diversity Sponsors: Locus Robotics, Nokia Bell Labs.
Events
- 2025-09-05 CogniPilot Conference and ROS Midwest Meetup @ Purdue
- 2025-09-08 ROS 2 Rust Meeting
- 2025-09-09 ROSCon JP in Nagoya
- 2025-09-10 MoveIt Pro Works Here: Charles River Analytics leads cutting-edge AI and robotics research
- 2025-09-10 Autoware Con in Nagoya
- 2025-09-13 Robot Operating System (ROS) Meetup, Lagos
- 2025-09-13 => 2025-09-19 CppCon Colorado
- 2025-09-13 Virtual ROS Meetup in Nigeria
- 2025-09-15 => 2025-09-17 Inaugral ROSCon UK in Edinburgh
- 2025-09-16 PickNik Robotics Turns 10 Party
- 2025-09-23 Foxglove Actuate Conference – 10% Off with code “ROS10”
- 2025-09-26 Mass Robotics Career Fair
- 2025-09-27 RoboBoston the largest celebration of robots and robotics
- 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
- 2025-11-10 => 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
- OSRA TGC meeting minutes for July, 2025
DIY Robotic Boat Takes Relaxation to the Next Level- Orchard Robotics raises $22M for farm vision AI
- Robomart unveils new delivery robot with $3 flat fee to challenge DoorDash, Uber Eats
- Delta Railroad Services unveils automated Rail Unloader Car
- Google DeepMind, Intrinsic build AI for multi-robot planning
- Why humanoid robots aren’t advancing as fast as AI chatbots
- How robotics is transforming healthcare, inside and outside the operating room
- Ujjwal Kumar steps down as president of Teradyne Robotics
- RealSense deepens NVIDIA ties with new D555 depth camera
- The Reservoir launches AgTech innovation hub in Salinas, CA
- Home Humanoid Robots Survey Reveals Surprising Preferences
- Eufy Robot Vacuum’s Secret to Climbing Stairs
ROS
- Gazebo Jetty Test and Tutorial Party Instructions
- Panik: Wrist TeleRehab Robot Deriving
- Introduction to ROS YouTube Video Series
- Telegraf_resource_monitor: System Monitoring Node for ROS 2
- Polymath: ROS 2 Graph Monitor, A Continuous Snapshot of Your Robot’s State
- Is it time to discuss rosidl?
- Another MCP Server to analyze your rosbags with LLMs + a UI to benchmark it against different LLM providers
- OMX, Entry-Level Physical AI Manipulator!
- How to enable ESM for ROS and Ubuntu to keep your robots supported after Noetic EOL
- Fast DDS Pro – Advanced Features for ROS 2 and Vulcanexus
- ROS 2 Studio : VS Code extension
- RobotCAD integrated Dynamic World Generator
- Migrating and Optimizing DAVE’s Physics-based Sonar Plugin for ROS 2 and Gazebo Harmonic
- ManyMove integration with Isaac SIM 5.0
- Space Station OS v0.8.5 – Thermal Visualization, ROS2–CCSDS Bridge, and GNC Orbital Simulation
- XLeRobot: Autonomous Household Dual-Arm Mobile Robot for $660
- JDE Robot: Upgrade of Car Junction Exercise (Video)
- Autoware Mini - minimalistic Python-based autonomy software
- Build C++ projects with Pixi
- Bibliographic list for papers of image matching
- Nullspace MPC: A novel multi-objective control framework for explicitly handling task priorities
- Introduction to Electric Motors
- RoboCup At SpaceJP
- DWPP: Dynamic Window Pure Pursuit
- Mechanical Design for Robotics: Fusion 360 Workshop
- Polymath: ROS 2 Graph Monitor, A Continuous Snapshot of Your Robot’s State
- Pyppet a robot model format that uses Python instead of XML for better type checking, logic, scripting, and parsing
- Top CLI command for ROS
- Kilometer-Scale Autonomous Navigation in Subarctic Forests: Challenges and Lessons Learned – uvt-rs: A blazingly fast trajectory file format
- From EKF-SLAM to iSAM2
- ROS 2 package implementing a teleoperation interface using QT
- Evaluation of a model-driven approach for the integration of robot operating system-based complex robot systems
- ROS 2 package that integrates Telegraf with ROS 2 to monitor system resources and publish them as ROS messages.
- AS2FM: Enabling Statistical Model Checking of ROS 2 Systems for Robust Autonomy - source code
- Pollen Robotics Reachy2 Emotions
- The Rosario Dataset v2: Multimodal Ag Data
- Curve and Cube Recognition with AgileX PIPER Robotic Arm
Got a Minute? 
Our Gazebo Jetty Test and Tutorial Party is still ongoing! We’re only 51% done with tickets so there’s still plenty of things to test and potentially earn swag.
As it stands, here is our current leader board as of 12pm PST, on September 5th.
LEADER BOARD
| Place | User | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Creator-1705 | 613.8 |
| 2 | akky20 | 382.0 |
| 3 | nikodemj9 | 316.0 |
| 4 | jmackay2 | 257.0 |
| 5 | Physic69 | 236.0 |
| 6 | jasmeet0915 | 151.2 |
| 7 | avanmalleghem | 120.0 |
| 8 | Narashima1808 | 111.0 |
| 9 | matosinho | 84.4 |
| 10 | mohamedsayed18 | 78.0 |
| 11 | SuperGops7 | 76.0 |
| 12 | pratik-adhikari | 75.0 |
| 13 | shreya-ramesh | 47.0 |
| 14 | CursedRock17 | 45.0 |
| 15 | s0um0r0y | 40.0 |
| 16 | chen-harrison | 40.0 |
| 17 | Go-Ab1 | 18.0 |
| 18 | ArchanaKulkarni29 | 18.0 |
| 19 | Arnold-Dsouza | 14.4 |
| 20 | Mubeenali53 | 12.0 |
| 21 | XINJIANGMO | 6.0 |
