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ROS Discourse General: ROS News for the Week of April 21st, 2025

ROS News for the Week of April 21st, 2025


KiltedTAndT

Join us next Thursday, 2025-05-01T16:00:00Z UTC to kick off the Kilted Kaiju Test and Tutorial Party We need your help to beta test Kilted!


ROSBTBMay25 (1)

If you are in the Bay Area join us on Wednesday, April 30th, for ROS By-The-Bay. I will have Kilted stickers!


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Join us next Wednesday, 2025-04-30T16:00:00Z UTC, for our monthly Gazebo Community Meeting.


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THIS IS HUGE! The fine folks over at Hugging Face / Pollen Robotics just open sourced the entire stack for Pollen Robotic’s Reachy robot!


trackers
The fine folks at RoboFlow have released a unified open source library for object tracking featuring clean room re-implementations of the leading multi-object tracking algorithms. – source


TurtleBot3 81 ROS 2 Humble Home Service Challenge

Our friends at Robotis have put together a fantastic tutorial on how to simulate your own home service robot using the TurtleBot3, ROS 2, and Gazebo!


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:clock: Got a Minute?

At this week’s waffle meeting we had a set of issues came up and we would really like the community’s help in solving them, A new contributor with a static analyzer has been analyzing RViz2 and then filing issues where necessary. We need the community’s help to verify that these issue are indeed actual issues and to then fix them as necessary.

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ROS Discourse General: New packages for Humble Hawksbill 2025-04-25

Package Updates for humble

Added Packages [37]:

Updated Packages [395]:

Removed Packages [1]:

Thanks to all ROS maintainers who make packages available to the ROS community. The above list of packages was made possible by the work of the following maintainers:

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ROS Discourse General: New Packages for Noetic 2025-04-24

We’re happy to announce 25 new packages and 168 updates are now available in ROS Noetic. This sync was tagged as noetic/2025-04-24.

Thank you to every maintainer and contributor who made these updates available!

Package Updates for ROS Noetic

Added Packages [25]:

Updated Packages [168]:

Removed Packages [0]:

Thanks to all ROS maintainers who make packages available to the ROS community. The above list of packages was made possible by the work of the following maintainers:

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ROS Discourse General: Kilted Test and Tutorial Party and Release Events :tada:

Kilted Test and Tutorial Party and Release Events :tada:


KiltedTAndT

What is a Test and Tutorial Party?

We want Kilted Kaiju to be our best ROS 2 release yet, and to get there we need to make sure that we thoroughly test Kilted before it is released to the general public. We also want to make sure that the ROS documentation on docs.ros.org continues to be clear, concise, and correct. That’s where we need your help! We’re looking for community volunteers to join us for our annual ROS Testing and Tutorial Party. If you are looking to start dipping your toes into ROS development this is a great place to start.

So, what is a testing and tutorial party you may ask? Well, it is a chance for the community to meet and systematically review all of the current ROS tutorials while also testing the latest ROS release. What we attempt to do at the party is to test every ROS tutorial for every “flavor” of ROS user, or in other words, every combination of operating system (Ubuntu Linux, RedHat Linux, Windows, etc.), RMW implementation (FastDDS, Cyclone DDS, etc.), installation method, and CPU architecture (amd64, aarch64, etc.).

Now that we’ve frozen the Kilted release, the core developer team is working on generating a set of “early release” binary and source packages for Kilted Kaiju. We plan to make these pre-release binaries publicly available before the Testing and Tutorial Party. During the party we’ll release our testing repository with a long list of tests we would like to run on the testing version of Kilted Kaiju. These tests will first ask contributors to pick a particular release “setup”, and then run either the test suite or work through one or more of the existing ROS 2 tutorials on docs.ros.org. Each “setup” is a specific combination of RMW vendor (FastDDS/Cyclone DDS/Zenoh), build type (binary tarball/packages/source), host operating system (Ubuntu Noble/RHEL-9/Windows 10), and architecture (amd64/aarch64). For each setup, we would like to perform a number of tests that validate our tutorials, core ROS functionality, and important features. With dozens possible setup configurations, testing each and every one internally just isn’t feasible. To ensure reproducibility of the tests it’s also valuable to get multiple evaluations of each test, which is why we need your help!

Tutorial party participants are asked to perform the tests they sign up for and report back the results. If you happen to find an issue or bug while participating in the tutorial party you’ll need to report it to us so it can get corrected before the Kilted release.

Tutorial Party Information

We are planning to kick-off the Kilted tutorial party off at 2025-05-01T16:00:00Z UTC with a meeting where we explain the whole Testing and Tutorial Party Process. That meeting can be found on the OSRF Official Events Calendar. We’ll record the meeting and post instructions on Discourse for those who can’t make the meeting. To help motivate participants, we will be giving away either OSRA membership or ROS Kilted Kaiju swag to the testers who complete the most tests during the tutorial party. Once you have completed your first test or tutorial, and close the Github issue, you will need to fill out a short Google form so we know how to contact you. We’ll post more details about the tutorial party in about two weeks when we kick things off. For now, we’re outlining a rough sequence of events so everyone can set aside some time to participate.

This year we’re organizing two events to coincide with the Kilted Kaiju release that are worth mentioning. First we’ve scheduled our regular ROS By-The-Bay meetup to coincide with the T&T Party Kickoff. If you are in the Bay Area and want to learn more about the T&T party in person please register for ROS By-The-Bay. Second, and this is still tentative, we’re organizing a ROS Meetup / Kilted Release Party at ICRA. More information about that event should be available in the next two weeks!

Here are the key dates you’ll want to remember:

We have added these events to the OSRF Official Events Calendar, but the big one that you won’t want to miss is the kick-off event on 2025-05-01T16:00:00Z UTC . In the meantime we would like your help spreading the word about the Testing and Tutorial Party. We hope to see you there on May 1st!

Finally, if you would like to help support Open Robotics, and events like these, consider making a donation or joining the OSRA.

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ROS Discourse General: Mark Your Calendars: Autonomous Grand Challenge 2025 @ ICCV & IROS

:alarm_clock: The CVPR2025 submission deadline is approaching fast — don’t forget to upload your results by May 10th! Right after CVPR, the ICCV2025 season begins.
:robot: Coming in early May: The AgiBot World Challenge! In this challenge, we are going beyond the lab and into the real world — deploying them on real robots, live at IROS2025.
:link: Learn more at http://opendrivelab.com/challenge2025

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ROS Discourse General: Interoperability Special Interest Group skipping May 2025

Since the regularly scheduled date of May 1st happens to be a holiday in Singapore, we’ll be skipping the next session.

Please join us when we return on 2025-06-05T15:00:00Z UTC to talk about how to define executable workflow diagrams using JSON. We’ll cover various workflow mechanisms like forks, buffers, joins, listeners, and streams, and demonstrate how to incorporate these mechanisms into a workflow diagram.

We’ll also talk about reusable workflow “sections” which allow you to encapsulate portions of a workflow into a reusable unit, selectively exposing specific input slots, output signals, and buffers of your section that can be connect with other elements in your workflow. “Sections” allow you to apply good software engineering practices to your workflow design by defining an API (the set of inputs, outputs, and buffers that your section exposes) and plugging the section into any workflow where it may be useful. Complex workflows can be simplified by breaking them down into sections, and the responsibility of designing each section can be delegated across multiple team members or even across different teams. Sections can also be used inside of other sections, allowing multiple layers of abstraction.

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ROS Discourse General: New tool for working with Behavior Trees

Hello everyone!

I’ve just published TreeSense, a new VS Code extension that brings basic IntelliSense to BehaviorTree.CPP XML files. With TreeSense you can:

It’s still early days and possibly doesn’t cover every edge case, but I hope you find it useful. I’d love to hear any feedback or feature suggestions as you try it out!

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ROS Discourse General: Looking for Visual Odometry Resources in Simulation (ROS 2 + Gazebo)

Hi,

I’m working on a project that involves visual odometry, and I’m specifically looking to implement and test everything in simulation using ROS 2 (Preferably Humble or Jazzy) and Gazebo—no physical hardware or cameras involved.

I’d really appreciate it if anyone could share:

  1. Tutorials or guides for setting up visual odometry pipelines in ROS 2 with Gazebo
  2. Recommended simulation setups (e.g., camera plugins, world files, robot models)
  3. Open-source packages or repos that work well in simulation
  4. Any datasets or tools that help evaluate VO performance in a simulated environment

Kind regards,

Johanes

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ROS Discourse General: ROS News for the Week of April 14th, 2025

ROS News for the Week of April 14th, 2025

KILTEDDATES (1)

The ROS 2 Kilted Kaiju feature freeze was Monday! We should have information about the release process early next week!


ROSBTBMay25 (1)

I’ve scheduled a ROS By-The-Bay meetup for 2025-05-01T01:00:00Z UTC coincide with the Kilted Kaiju Test and Tutorial Party.


6Dpose
Check out this teaser for, “Any6D: Model-free 6D Pose Estimation of Novel Objects” by KAIST and NVIDIA that will be presented at CVPR 2025! The demo seems to show ROS integration. Source code isn’t out yet but you can read the paper here. Heads up, we’re planning a ROS meetup at CVPR this year, more details will be out in a couple of weeks.


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The fine folks at ETH Zurich have released ORCA Hand, an open source software and hardware hand you can build at home for under $2000.


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The fine folks at HuggingFace :hugs:, the maintainers of LeRobot, have acquired
the equally awesome folks at Pollen Robotics. No word yet on what the merger means for the team, but we expect it to be awesome!


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I came across a wonderful gif this week about the upcoming ROS 1 end-of-life on May 31st.

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Got a Minute? :alarm_clock:

We’re looking for three new contributors to help us with two new features and one issue with the Open-RMF Site Editor. Open-RMF is our brand new open source multi-robot fleet manager written in :crab:Rust​:crab: and is the bleeding edge of what we are working on!

:crab: Open-RMF Site Editor #217: We’re need someone to create a way to save the user’s view point in the Open-RMF Site Editor that can we loaded when the user starts the application.

:crab: Open-RMF Site Editor #216: There is a bug such that deleting a fiducial that belongs to a group will permanently block any other fiducial in its drawing from being able to join that group.

:crab: Open-RMF Site Editor #225: We need a simple dialog that warns users before discarding unsaved changes. This is a great first issue for those just getting started with Rust.

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ROS Discourse General: Next Client Library WG Meeting: Friday 18th April 2024 8AM PT

Hi,

The next meeting of the Client Library Working Group will be this Friday, 4th April 2025 at 8 AM Pacific Time.

Everyone is welcome to join and bring their own topics for discussion, just add them to the agenda!

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ROS Discourse General: New packages for ROS 2 Rolling Ridley 2025-04-16

Hello everyone!

We’re happy to announce 17 new package and 206 updates are now available in ROS 2 Rolling Ridley :rolling_head: :rolling:

This sync was tagged as rolling/2025-04-16 .

Package Updates for rolling

Added Packages [17]:

Updated Packages [206]:

Removed Packages [34]:

The packages removed were failing to build due to regressions and the maintainers have been informed / fixes are underway. These packages will be restored in the next sync if new releases with fixes are bloomed by then.

Note: fastrtps was removed as the package was renamed to fastdds

Thanks to all ROS maintainers who make packages available to the ROS community. The above list of packages was made possible by the work of the following maintainers:

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ROS Discourse General: RobotCAD 8.0.0 - Library - released!

models_menu_demo_3

This release integrates ready to use models library.

Models library video demo

Release notes


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ROS Discourse General: Understanding the benefits and challenges for adopting behavior trees

HI everyone,
This is my first interaction with the ROS community :sweat_smile: My name is Razan Ghzouli, and I am a PhD at Chalmers University.
I am trying to build knowledge about the benefits and challenges of using BTs in practice. There is not much information on capturing practitioners’ experience on this topic to improve things further. You can help by answering this short survey to build this knowledge (15 minutes). I would really appreciate it :nerd_face:

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ROS Discourse General: Continued Discussion: Uploading Robot Data to the Cloud | Cloud Robotics WG Meeting 2025-05-05

The next meeting for the Cloud Robotics Working Group will be at 2025-04-21T17:00:00Z UTC→2025-04-21T18:00:00Z UTC 2025-05-05T17:00:00Z UTC→2025-05-05T18:00:00Z UTC, where we will continue discussing uploading robot data to the cloud. We will attempt to come up with several categories of robotics, recommend the most important data to store for each category, and publish our work so that others can contribute. In the end, we hope to produce a reference for any developer looking to validate their own use of cloud storage.

Last meeting, we discussed how to collect information, and started working on a Google Doc to contain our work. The doc is available here: Data Collection Categories - Google Docs

If you would like to see the meeting, the recording is available on YouTube. Also, if you would like to propose a topic you are interested in discussing with the group, please add a comment on the Github Issue.

The meeting link is here, and you can sign up to our calendar or our Google Group for meeting notifications or keep an eye on the Cloud Robotics Hub.

Hopefully we will see you there!

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ROS Discourse General: Deadline approaching for Diversity Scholarship ROSCon 2025

The deadline for the Diversity scholarship for ROSCon 2025 (this October in Singapore) is coming reaaalllyy soon, namely this Friday, 18th of April. So if you are thinking about applying, you should do it now.

Deadline: 2025-04-19T06:59:00Z UTC
Call for scholarship applications: ROSCon 2025
Direct form link: Google form.

If you know anyone from an minority group within robotics, that would qualify for this scholarship, please help us out and share this with them.

ROSConDiversity

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ROS Discourse General: Rviz Publisher

Hi!

I’d like to show you a tool I’ve been working on and that I think could be useful to many people.

I suppose more than once some of you have had to create an RVIZ plugin, and you’ve probably been quite lost the first time, as always happens when you enter a new world. In my case, I’ve always ended up looking for someone else’s plugin to learn how to do it and seeing everything the QT library could offer. In the end, I’d end up wasting a day or two just making a simple panel to debug my application.

To avoid having to deal with QT, whether learning or simply having to design the application yourself, I’ve prepared the following package:

With this package, we can generate our own RVIZ plugin. For now, just a panel with buttons, where we can publish any messages we want.

Still in development, it’s based on the rosidl_defaults_generator function, which, for those who don’t know, is the package we use to create our custom messages and does the magic so we can use them jajaja. Let me tell you a little about how it works:

First, we add the following lines to the CMakeLists.txt of the package that will generate a plugin:

find_package(rviz_publisher_cmake REQUIRED)

generate_rviz_panel(
  <path_to_the_yaml>
)

Next, we configure the yaml file we’re going to add to our CMakeLists.txt in a similar way:

panel:
  - name: "Hello"
    topic: "/example"
    topic_type: "std_msgs/msg/String"
    message:
      data: "Hello, world!"
  - name: "Forward"
    topic: "/cmd_vel"
    topic_type: "geometry_msgs/msg/Twist"
    message:
      linear:
        x: 0.5
  - name: "Move"
    topic: "/cmd_vel"
    topic_type: "geometry_msgs/msg/Twist"
    message:
      linear:
        x: 0.5
        y: 0.0
      angular:
        z: 0.5

Finally, we build, open rviz, add our panel, and magic happens.

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So, nothing. I hope it’s useful to people who, as I’ve already said, don’t want to spend too much time creating their own plugin, although it’s always good to learn new things jeje.

And I’m posting this now, even though there’s still a lot missing, because I’d also like to gather ideas about what people would like to have, since I also plan to use it for actions, services, and to generate sliders…

Finally, I would like to say that I know that rviz is ultimately a tool used to visualize information, not to publish, and that rqt_publisher would also be used for that. However, having an all-in-one is always useful when you want to debug things, and having to switch windows or write in a terminal ends up being too repetitive, and I think this is going to help a lot.

Thank you very much for reading, and I hope it helps.

Best regards.

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ROS Discourse General: ROS News for the Week of April 7th, 2025

ROS News for the Week of April 7th, 2025

ROSConUK2025

Announcing the First Ever ROSCon UK! :united_kingdom:


9q76m6

It is official, ROS Noetic will go end-of-life on May 31, 2025.. I’ve put together some guidance on how to migrate to ROS 2.


OpenCV-SID-1x1-Poster@1x

Our friends at OpenCV are holding their first ever Conference! The event is schedule for May 12th, 2025 in San Jose, California.


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camera_angle

Lots of interesting URDF news this week. Check out this cool automatic URDF generation paper @arjo129 found.There is also this handy tool to generate differential drive robots for Gazebo.

calibrate

This week I came across this one dependency, pip-installable, easy to use camera calibration utility. This should make robot camera calibration so much easier!

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Got a minute? :alarm_clock:

A friendly fuzzer just dumped a bunch of issues in RViz and Geometry2. We would love to get these fixed before the Kilted feature freeze on 2025-04-14. If you have some time why not send us a pull request?

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ROS Discourse General: Generic Controller for Omnidirectional Robots using Omni Wheels

Hello everyone! I have made a ros2_controller for omnidirectional robots that are using 3 or more omni wheels.
I have made a PR, submitting this controller into the official repository so that it can have a wider reach, but the maintainers haven’t gotten the time yet to review and test the controller.
It would be really nice if someone from the community could go ahead and review/test the controller.
You can find the kinematics used by the controller in the official docs.

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ROS Discourse General: ROS Noetic End-of-Life: May 31, 2025

Hello ROS Noetic users and maintainers!

This week the ROS PMC formally voted to set the Noetic end-of-life (EOL) date to May 31, 2025. This is the same day Ubuntu Focal reaches end of standard support.

I’m a ROS Noetic user, what do I need to know?

You need to know that it is time to upgrade! 80% of the ROS community has already made the switch.

We put together a single page of guidance for current ROS Noetic users who need to upgrade to ROS 2: ROS: Upcoming ROS 1 End of Life

I’m a ROS Noetic maintainer

How long do I have to make releases?

If you maintain a ROS Noetic repository and you haven’t made a release in a while, then you should make a release now.

There are only a few syncs left. The last two syncs will follow this schedule:

[1] The sync dates may be delayed if releases cause regressions that need to be resolved or rolled back.

What should maintainers do to prepare for EOL?

First, if you have unreleased changes, then make a release now.

There won’t be an opportunity to fix regressions in binary packages once ROS Noetic goes EOL, so consider reducing the risk of regressions when reviewing PRs by:

Some users will build ROS Noetic from source, for example, to use the ros1_bridge. Consider merging PRs that make your package build on newer Ubuntu versions.

If your repository only supports ROS 1, and you are not going to maintain it after ROS Noetic goes EOL, then make that clear to your users on May 31, 2025 by:

If your repository supports ROS 1 and ROS 2, then make sure the default branch supports ROS 2, preferably ROS Rolling.

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ROS Discourse General: Rosdep search

Greetings fellow roboticists,

if you’re a commendable package creator and always try to specify all your dependencies, you might know the struggle of trying to guess the right dependency key.
Maybe you’re lucky and guess it; otherwise, you have to take the cumbersome route of visiting the rosdep repo and checking the base.yaml for the key for your dependency.

This should really be easier, shouldn’t it?
Well, now it can be!
I’ve added a search command to rosdep in my fork and opened a PR #997.

This command enables you to simply search your rosdep database (which can also include additional sources to the official ones) for the keys matching your search with 1 allowed error (missing, wrong, or extra letter).
It checks both for keys and packages, so you can search for the package name in your Linux distros package manager.

Examples:

$ rosdep search libpcl-dev
Closest keys:
  libfcl-dev

Closest packages:
  libpcl-all-dev: libpcl-dev [debian]
  libpcl-all-dev: libpcl-dev [ubuntu]
  acl: libacl-devel [fedora]
  acl: libacl-devel [rhel]


$ rosdep search pinoccio
Closest keys:
  kinematics_interface_pinocchio
  pinocchio

I hope this will be useful for you and this post helps get the PR some attention so it can be finalized and merged in a timely fashion :innocent:

If it wasn’t useful, here’s a picture to make up for your time:

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ROS Discourse General: New Packages for Noetic 2025-04-08

We’re happy to announce 2 new packages and 5 updates are now available in ROS Noetic. This sync was tagged as noetic/2025-04-08.

Package Updates for noetic

Added Packages [2]:

Updated Packages [5]:

Removed Packages [0]:

Thanks to all ROS maintainers who make packages available to the ROS community. The above list of packages was made possible by the work of the following maintainers:

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ROS Discourse General: CppCon 2025 Robotics and AI Track Call for Submissions!

The C++ programming community is excited to announce the Robotics and AI Track for the upcoming CppCon 2025, taking place on-site at the Gaylord Rockies in Aurora, Colorado September 13th-19th. We invite robotics practitioners from industry, academia, and the hobbyist domain to share their insights, experiences, and knowledge about using C++ in a robotics context.

Deadline for Submission is May 11th!

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The track has a focus on C++ used in a Robotics or AI context so that we can share best practices and strengthen our community. It differs from events such as ROSCon or ICRA as it has an emphasis on code on slides and talks are typically 1 hour long.

Last year’s presentations included:

Below is a playlist of presentations from last year’s track as well as 2023, which should give you an idea of the subject matter and C++ emphasis the track welcomes.

CppCon 2024 Robotics Track Playlist

CppCon 2023 Robotics Track Playlist

For more information (and links to submit your talk proposal) see this longer post here:

Deadline for Submission is May 11th!

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ROS Discourse General: New packages and patch release 4 for Jazzy Jalisco 2025-04-07

We’re happy to announce 24 new packages and 473 updates are now available on Ubuntu Noble on amd64 for Jazzy Jalisco.

This sync was tagged as jazzy/2025-04-07 .

:jazzy: :jazzy: :jazzy:

Package Updates for jazzy

Added Packages [24]:

Updated Packages [473]:

Removed Packages [4]:

Thanks to all ROS maintainers who make packages available to the ROS community. The above list of packages was made possible by the work of the following maintainers:

Enjoy! :jazzy:

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ROS Discourse General: Upcoming ROS 2 Feature Freeze for Kilted Kaiju on April 14th

We’ve just entered the RMW Feature Freeze period for ROS 2 Kilted Kaiju, and this means that we’re only one week away from the same milestone for all ROS 2 core package in Rolling (soon to be Kilted). At that time, all ros_core packages will be feature and API frozen in Rolling Ridley until we branch Kilted from Rolling on 2025-04-21T00:00:00Z UTC. Feature and API changes can be merged into the Rolling branches once again after the branching is complete.

As always, refer to the Kilted Kaiju Release Timeline for all of the important dates and milestones as we approach World Turtle Day and the release of Kilted Kaiju!

Thanks!

– ROS 2 Team

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ROS Discourse General: BeetleBot Differential Drive Robot Template for GZ sim ROS2

Beetlebot Repo.This repository contains different configurations for the BeetleBot differential drive robot with Gazebo sim to make it easier for beginners to create thier own robot for gazebo sim in sdf or URDF format also make it easier to understand the diffrences between SDF and URDF .

Each branch in this repository represents a unique configuration of the same beetlebot robot in the world it operates in.

  1. SDF-format

In this branch beetlebot robot is writen in SDF format and spawnd inside the main world using spawner cmd in the launch file.

  1. URDF-format

In this branch beetlebot robot is written as URDF and spawned inside the main world using spawner cmd in the launch file.
camera_angle
beetlebot_empty_world
beetlebot_track

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2025-04-26 13:18