ROS News for the Week of September 19th 2022
This week we saw not one, not two, but three separate ROS-based quadruped robot projects!
OK1 Robot - Quadruped Robot based on ROS and MoveIt
A New Quadruped Robot Sim&Real Project @ TopHill Robotics
HyperDog: An Open-Source Quadruped Robot Platform Based on ROS2 and micro-ROS
Now that Japan has moved to allow visa-free individual tourists on Oct. 11 I hope to see you all there. Check out our countdown to ROSCon 2022 Don’t miss these ROSCon Food & Drink Recommendations from a Local and this ROSCon Google Calendar.
Events
- NEW! 9/26/2022 Infrastructure Community Office Hours
- 9/27/2022 RAAS Fundraising Roundtable
- NEW: 9/27/2022 ROS Chicago Meetup at Northwestern – Please help me spread the word.
- 10/1/2022 Mass Robotics Robot Block Party
- 10/3/2022 → 10/7/2022 Open Deep Robotics Summer School
- 10/4/2022 → 10/13/2022 ROS Deployement Workshop at Ubuntu Summit
- 10/12/2022 ROS-I Industrial Manipulation Workshop
- 10/13/2022 Save the Date ROSCon Preparty in San Francisco
- 10/17/2022 Intro to ROS 2 and the Create 3 Course
- 10/18/2022 ROS-I Training in Boston
- 10/19/2022 Robotics Startup Bootcamp
- 10/19/2022 → 10/21/2022 ROSCon – Registration Open
- 11/9/2022 → 11/10/2022 ROS-I Asia Pacific Workshop
News
- Kitty Hawk Fails to Liftoff
- One Billion Picks at Locus
- ROSCon Food & Drink Recommendations from a Local
- Zebra Technologies at MODEX 2022 with The New Warehouse Podcast
- Green Electrical Engineering on OpenCV Weekly #75
- Japan to allow visa-free individual tourists from Oct. 11
- SWRI Fuels Passion for STEM
- 2022 Open-Source Hardware Association Annual Survey
- Adopt this Robot!
- Countdown to ROSCon 2022
- Trimble Ventures invests in CivRobotics
- WaPo: The robots are here. And they are making you fries.
- Princeton Free Course on Robotics
- Business Insider: Embark Autonomous Trucks
- NVIDIA GTC Summary at The Robot Report
ROS
- The DDS Race: what we’ve seen so far
- Micro-ROS embeddedRTPS
- RHEL Docker Containers
- Net F/T sensors ROS2 driver
- Disabling of “Merge commits” on the core ROS 2 repositories
- ROSCon Google Calendar
- A New Quadruped Robot Sim&Real Project @ TopHill Robotics
- OK1 Robot - Quadruped Robot based on ROS and MoveIt
- Major run-time improvement on Smac Planners (10-30%)!
- ROS 2 TSC Meeting Minutes: 2022-9-15
- Answer ROS Questions like a Pirate Week
- ROS Can Driver for ODrive
- MoveIt Weekly: Dependency Injection for Modern C++
- MH-AMCL Video for ICRA 2023
- ROS-I Reach Analysis Tool
- HyperDog: An Open-Source Quadruped Robot Platform Based on ROS2 and micro-ROS
- ROS Orchestration with Snaps
- ROS: the framework to accelerate your next robotics project
- Lifecycle Nodes in ROS 2
- NavGoal WebGUI
- Inside DHL’s Robotics Ecosystem
- Cool, New, Tactile Sensor
- Asynchronous Actor-Critic for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- SWRI: A software framework to enable agile robotic assembly applications.
- The use of Behavior Trees in Plansys2