ROS News for January 8th, 2024

Katherine_Scott · 2024-01-12T21:05:41.255Z

ROS News for January 8th, 2024

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.

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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.

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

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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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system · 2024-02-11T21:06:25.512Z

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