ROS News for the Week of September 8th, 2025
ROSConJP was this week and it looks like it was a blast. I woke up Tuesday morning to a stream of awesome photos and Github repos, some of which are listed below.
Our inaugral ROSCon UK in Edinburgh is happening next week!
ROSCon 2025 Birds of Feather session submissions are now open!
If you haven’t registered for ROSCon 2025 we recommend you do so ASAP! Half of our workshops are nearly sold out. Ticket prices increase on September 28th!
Our ROS By-The-Bay September meetup is scheduled for the 25th. Our guests will be Amit Moran, the CTO of Civ Robotics, and @InvincibleRMC, one of our 2025 GSoC students.
Connect AI models like Claude & GPT with robots using MCP and ROS.
Looking for some cool ROS tools? We had three great ones this week, from left to right: ros2sysmon, a system monitor utility, ament_ruff a tool for checking and formatting Python, and Lazy ROS, a ROS TUI.
Events
- 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
- 2025-09-16 Physical AI for Robot Fleets in Malmö, Sweden
- 2025-09-18 Autonomous Driving Meetup #29
- 2025-09-23 Foxglove Actuate Conference – 10% Off with code “ROS10”
- 2025-09-25 ROS By-The-Bay September 2025
- 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
- 2025-11-10 => 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
Name the next Gazebo release! Gazebo K- ROSCon 2025 Birds of Feather Sessions Now Open!
TGC Special Interest Group on Physical AI- Automated with Brian Heater Podcast
- The World’s Commercial Space-Rated Robot Arms
- Robots to the rescue: miniature robots offer new hope for search and rescue operations
- AWS RoboMaker shuts down after failing to gain traction
- We are entering a golden age of robotics startups — and not just because of AI
- Humanoid Robots: The Scaling Challenge
- GR-3 Care-bot: The Gentle Robot Companion Experience
- Gazebo PMC Meeting Minutes 2025-09-08
ROS
Connect AI models like Claude & GPT with robots using MCP and ROS. – Video- Python checking/formatting with
ament_ruff - Lazy ROS
- New tool: ros2sysmon - monitor nodes, topics, ifs, and more in one utility
- UniROS A comprehensive framework for reinforcement learning in robotics
- Minecraft ROS 2
- New packages for Kilted Kaiju 2025-09-11
- ROS MCP Server Release!
- Robot Steering & video steaming on new iOS App (Robot Steering)
- AgileX PiPER: Teleoperation with Hand Gesture Recognition
- Fusion 360 to ROS 2 URDF – Updated & Improved!
- A new exercise on Deep Learning for visual robot control in JdeRobot’s RoboticsAcademy
- Bridging the Gap: Model-Driven Development and ROS
- New packages for ROS 2 Rolling Ridley 2025-09-05
- Copilot 4.5.1: Stream-based runtime-verification framework for generating hard real-time C code
- ROS Interface Primer
- Robotics Academy Porting Exercises to Native ROS 2 with Direct Topic Integration
- RESPLE: Recursive Spline Estimation for LiDAR-Based Odometry
- Unsupervised Distant Point Cloud Registration by Progressive Distance Extension
- Torque Aware VLA Model
- The World’s First RL-based Sensor Calibration Method
- ROS 2 Practical Path following_control
- Vid2Sim: Realistic and Interactive Simulation from Video for Urban Navigation
- A Hands-On Approach to Robotics
- LeRobot So101 with ROS 2
- Python Bindings for the ORB-SLAM Pipeline
- Nav2 plugin for Dynamic Window Pure Pursuit
- A Robust Approach for LiDAR-Inertial Odometry Without Sensor-Specific Modelling
Gazebo release.