ROS News for January 8th, 2024

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ROS News for January 8th, 2024

Open-source: Autonomous Exploration Development Environment

CMU dropped their ROS-based “Autonomous Navigation Development Environment” this week. It is definitely worth a look. We’re going to have them do a demo at the March Gazebo community meeting.

It was CES this week and a lot of ROS companies released their products this week. CES was also the venue for the Indy Autonomous Challenge Race (according to this tweet TUM won the competition.) The IAC also released their new vehicle.

The fine folks at Burro raised $24M this week and released a new, larger, robot.

This week ABB announced that they acquiredSwiss AMR maker, and ROS users, Sevensense..

Events

• 2024-01-18 Space ROS Community Meeting
• 2024-01-23 ROS Meetup in Karlsruhe, Germany
• 2024-01-24 NVIDIA Office Hours
• 2024-01-25 ROS By-The-Bay – Save the Date
• 2024-01-25 ROS Meetup Netherlands
• 2024-02-03 ROS Meetup Lagos Nigeria!
• 2024-02-07 ROS Meetup Munich
• 2024-03-27 ROS Industrial Annual Meeting
• 2024-04-21 Robots on Ice – Save the Date
• 2024-05-13 Bots & Bento @ ICRA 2024
• 2024-06-16 Food Topping Challenge at ICRA 2024
• 2024-06-19 => 2024-06-20 ROSCon France
• 2024 Open Hardware Summit Montreal

News

• Indy Autonomous Announces New Car, More Races – Press Release
• Robot Report: New Version of Open-RMF for ROS 2
• Burro Raises $24M for Ag Robots – More
• ABB Acquires Sevensense
• RIP Dexterous Robotics – Tech Crunch
• Dusty Robotics CEO on Robotics for Construction in Forbes
• Mistral’s MRD5165 Eagle Kit Packs a Powerful Compute Bundle for ROS UAVs
• Update eases Gazebo Classic to New Gazebo Migration
• Survey on Requirements for Toolchain to Achieve Robust Robot Deliberation
• IEEE Spectrum: Making a General Robotic Brain
• Will 2024 (finally) be the year of the autonomous vehicle?
• Video Friday
• FreeReg: Image-to-Point Cloud Registration Leveraging Pretrained Diffusion Models and Monocular Depth Estimators
• Awesome works on Unsupervised Object Localization
• Dataset of Robot Navigation in Natural Environments
• Dataset from Train Yards
• LibreFace: An Open-Source Toolkit for Deep Facial Expression Analysis

ROS

• Scripts and patches to install ros2_rolling on Mac M1
• ROS 2 in Parallels VM on MacOSX
• 11 New and 115 Updated Packages for Iron Irwini
• 16 New and 44 Updated Packages for Noetic Ninjemys
• 16 New and 255 Updated Packages for Humble Hawksbill
• ROS Interoperability SIG January Meeting Video
• Eclipse IceOryx 2
• “Official” Rust Client Library?
• Package Separation for Building and Running ROS Applications
• CPPCon: BehaviorTree.cpp Task Planning
• CPPCon: Functional Approach for Testable ROS 2 Code
• UniROS: ROS-Based Reinforcement Learning Across Simulated and Real-world Robotics
• Geolocalization for grid map using GDAL.
• COOL: CMU Announces Autonomous Exploration Development Environment
• Bot-ROS Project: Pointillism Painting with Emika Franka Panda Arm
• Autonomous Mobile Robot with RealSense D455 Camera for 3D Navigation
• ROS 2 Simulations : Mobile Robots, Drones & Robotic Arms
• Car Charging Robot Demo Code
• ROS Bridge to Vicon Mocap
• Laika: Simple Python GNSS Library

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