ROS News for the Week of September 30th, 2024
Gazebo Ionic has been released!
@fmrico has been working on a cool little tool called YAETS (Yet Another Execution Tracing System) that let’s you track node execution order via a Gantt Charts.
Check out this “Great Outdoors Dataset (GOD)”, it is a collection of annotated off-road multi-modal scenes with just about every type of sensor in a ROSBag.
Our friends and colleagues over at Dexory have raised an $80M series B to fund expansion to the US market.
ROSCon tickets are basically sold out! Last I heard, there were two dozen tickets remaining, and that was three days ago. It is now or never.
Events
- 2024-10-09 Aerial Robotics Meeting
- 2024-10-14 ROS
Rust Meeting - 2024-10-21 → 2024-10-24 ROSCon 2024 in Odense, Denmark
- 2024-10-22 → 2024-10-24 AgRobot FIRA in Sacramento
- 2024-10-24 → 2024-10-25 ROS Industrial Conference EU in Odense
- 2024-10-23 → 2024-10-25 16th International Conference on Social Robotics +AI
- 2024-11-02 → 2024-11-03 ROSCon China in Shenzhen
- 2024-11-6 → 2024-11-7 ROS-Industrial APAC Summit – More
- 2024-11-11 CFP for International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering
- CoRL Workshop on Lifelong Learning in Home Robotics
- 2024-11-22 F1Tenth Learning to Trust Autonomy Workshop at BU
- 2024-12-03 ROSCon Germany
- 2024-12-05 ROSCon India
- 2024-12-16 => 2024-12-19 F1Tenth Sim Racing League at CDC 2024
- 2025-04-28 International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering
News
- Audrow Nash: How Can Package Management Solve Robotics Cross-Platform Headaches
- Exact Volumetric Ellipsoid Rendering for Real-time View Synthesis
- ETH Zurich Robust Ladder Climbing
- Robots Make Bagles in Berkeley
- Dexory Raises $80M Series B
- The Great Outdoors Dataset: Off-Road Multi-Modal Dataset
- University of Illinois study on assistive healthcare robots earns international award
- BuiltWorlds reports that the construction industry may be warming to robotics
- Robotics investments near $1B in August
- ETH Zurich spinoff Voliro’s flying robots save lives, but don’t tell its CEO
- Serve Robotics and Wing to trial robot-to-drone delivery in Dallas
- Video Friday
- New UMass YCB Object Grasp Data Survey
- Gazebo Ionic at Intrinsic
- EFM3D: a new benchmark for 3D egocentric perception tasks
- RobotFingerPrint: Unified Gripper Coordinate Space for Multi-Gripper Grasp Synthesis
- Exploring Performance Bounds of Visual Place Recognition Using Extended Precision
- Some Thoughts on Robotics Startups
- Sparsify and Densify Visual Inertial Odometry
- Robotic Environmental State Recognition with Pre-Trained Vision-Language Models and Black-Box Optimization
- ECCV 2024 Papers (Japanese / English)
- Text2Interaction: Establishing Safe and Preferable Human-Robot Interaction
- Game Engine Coordinate Frame Alignment Chart – We should make one of these for robotics / simulation.
ROS
- Gazebo Ionic Release
- 2 New and 99 Updated Packages for Noetic
- ROS Interface for CubeMars Actuators
- ROS Interface for Teknic Servo Motors
- ROS 2 Node Management Tools?
- End-to-End AI for Robotics
- Video: Maritime Robotics Community Group Sept. Meeting
- MoveIt Pro 6 Released - Runtime and Developer Platform for ROS 2
- OpenDog V3 on ROS 2
- Nav2 Docking in the Wild
- FastDDS Share Memory Transport Slow
- OSRA TGC Approved Meeting Minutes
- ROS 2 Live Depth Cam / Point Cloud Visualization with Rerun
- MOLA Lidar Slides from ROSCon ES
- @fmrico YAETS: Yet Another Execution Tracing System (for ROS)
- TurtleBot3 Lime
- package.xml 2 package.nix
- IROS 2024 MPPI (Model Predictive Path-Integral) Controller for a Swerve Drive Robot
- Dockerfile to make ROS 2 environment on Jetson device.
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