ROS News for November 22nd thru December 3rd, 2021
This week I pulled our November download numbers, ROS 2 has grown 3X in 2021!
Happy Holidays from CTU Prague
Nav2: New Groot Visualization, Editing, and Customization Tutorial!
Events
- 12/6/2021 GRASP Lab Seminar – Artist in Residence
- 12/6/2021 RISC-V Summit
- 12/9/2021 Eigen C++ Matrix Library Webinar
- 12/11/2021 Robots on Ice
- 12/12/2021 → 12/17/2021 Winter School on Soft Robots
News
- Corvus Robotics on Sense, Think, Act
- ETH Zurich Demo Video (Legs + Wheels)
- Advanced Cat Exercise Equipment
- Ubuntu supports Cyberdog
- NASA VIPER Rover Testing
- WaPo: My day with Henry Evans — a quadriplegic who’s gaining movement through robotics
- Amazon launches AWS RoboRunner to support robotics apps
- Miso Robotics Raises $35M in Latest Crowdfunding Round
- Open Robotics CEO on Redhat Command Line Heroes Podcast
- Robots in 2022: Six robotics predictions from industry-leading humans
- AWS, MassRobotics announce robotics accelerator
- Paper: A Comparison of Modern General-Purpose Visual SLAM Approaches
- Everyday robots are (slowly) leaving the lab
- Discussion: Leaders in Robotics, AMRs, and Logistic
- Model of CPR Office using Legos
- CatChatter: 360 Depth from Sound
- Sensing Breakdown: Locomation Autonomous Relay Convoy
- Robots Won’t Close the Warehouse Worker Gap Anytime Soon
- Torsten Sattler | Long-Term Visual Localization | Tartan SLAM Series
ROS
- 8 New and 80 Updated ROS 2 Foxy Packages
- micro-ROS + PlatformIO
- Great ROS 1 vs ROS 2 Video
- ROS Pull Request Evaluation Study (Worth a read!)
- Nav2 New Rotation Shim Controller Plugin
- Robot Holiday Video!
- micro-ROS supports RTEMS
- Cybersecurity in the ROS 2 communication middleware, targeting the top 6 DDS implementations
- NEW! Rust DDS
- Best Practices for Topic Design
- Isaac ROS Nov update, hardware acceleration for autonomous robots
- Synthetic data generation for AI model developers with Isaac Sim
- micro-ROS fully supports ROS 2 features
- MoveIt Sprint Report
- Ignition Community Meeting Video: PX4 Drones and Tracked Vehicles
- Tutorial: How to Create an Indoor Delivery Robot – ROS 2 Navigation
- Exploring ROS2 using wheeled Robot – #3 – Moving the robot
- Paper: Dynamic Environments with Deformable Objects
- Nav2: New Groot Visualization, Editing, and Customization Tutorial!
- Gundam URDF Model
- ROS 2 packages for RoboCup SSL
- Docker & ROS: When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail
- XCRE DDS Demo Video