ROS News for the Week for March 18th, 2024
This week Open Robotics announced the Open Source Robotics Alliance – the OSRA is a new effort by Open Robotics to better support and organize ROS, Gazebo, Open-RMF, and the infrastructure that supports them.
I’ve organized some of the coverage below.
- Sense Think Act Podcast on OSRA Launch
- OSRA Launch on TechCrunch
- Intrinsic OSRA Announcement
- Nvidia Announces GR00T, a Foundation Model for Humanoids, & OSRA Support on IEEE Spectrum
- Got OSRA Questions? Get them answered here.
- Community Q&A Recording
On 2024-03-26 we’ve planned a ROS Meetup San Antonio, Texas. The meetup coincides with the ROS Industrial Annual Consortium Meeting. If you can’t make it, the first day of the ROS-I annual meeting will have a free live stream.
Our next Gazebo Community Meeting is on 2024-03-27T16:00:00Z. We’ll be visited by Ji Zhang, a research scientist at Carnegie Mellon who focuses on LIDAR SLAM and exploration.
This week about a dozen major universities plus Toyota Research Institute and Google Deep Mind released the Distributed Robot Interaction Dataset (DROID). The data consists of 76,000 episodes across 564 different scenes. Check out the data here.
Do you maintain a ROS 2 Package? Please take a moment to make sure your documentation will build on the ROS build farm and render on docs.ros.org by following this fantastic guide written by @ottojo
Events
- ONGOING: TU Delft ROS MOOC (FREE!)
- 2024-03-23 Robo Hackathon @ Circuit Launch (Bay Area)
- 2024-03-25 Robotics & AI Meetup Krakow
- NEW: 2024-03-26 ROS Meetup San Antonio, Texas
- 2024-03-27 Gazebo Community Meeting: CMU LIDAR SLAM Expert
- 2024-03-27 ROS Industrial Annual Meeting – Live Stream
- 2024-03-27 Robotics Happy Hour Pittsburgh
- 2024-04-03 ROS Meetup Barcelona
- 2024-04-06 Silicon Valley Robotics Robot Block Party
- 2024-04-16 → 2024-04-18 Zephyr Developer Summit
- 2024-04-21 Robots on Ice
- 2024-05-03 Open Hardware Summit Montreal
- 2024-05-07 ROSCon Workshop CFP Closes
- 2024-05-13 Bots & Bento @ ICRA 2024
- 2024-05-14 → 2024-05-16 F1Tenth Autonomous Grand Prix @ CPS-IoT Week
- 2025-06-03 ROSCon Talk CFP Closes
- 2024-06-04 → 2024-06-08 ACM SIGSOFT Summer School on Software Engineering for Robotics
- 2024-06-?? Workshop on Agriculture Vision at CVPR 2024
- 2024-06-16 Food Topping Challenge at ICRA 2024
- 2024-06-19 => 2024-06-20 ROSCon France
- 2024-08-05 Autonomous Systems Bootcam at Univ. Deleware– Video
- 2024-09-25 ROSConJP
- 2024-10-22 → 2024-10-24 AgRobot FIRA in Sacramento
News
- Announcing the Open Source Robotics Alliance – Got Questions? – Q&A Recording
- GSOC Applications Due April 2nd! JDE Robot – MoveIt – ROS / Gazebo / OpenRMF
DROID: A Large-Scale In-the-Wild Robot Manipulation Dataset- Restaurant Robotics Revs Up Amid Labor Shortages
- The Mythical Non-Roboticist
- Audrow on State of Robotics Report
- ICRA Student Volunteers
- Minimec - ROS 2 based mecanum wheel mobile platform
- Autoware Bus ODD Demo
- X Label Anything Tool
- Video Friday
- How Zipline Designed Its Droid Delivery System
- NVIDIA Announces Robotics Products at GTC
- Modex Recap
ROS
- TUDelft ROS MOOC
-
Guide on docs.ros.org Writing Per-Package Docs - RVIZ User Guide
- What 3D Cameras Do You Use With ROS 2?
- Updates for JROSClient
- ROS IDL Message Default Field Values
- Any RMW Zenoh Updates?
- Nav2 MPPI - 45% Performance Boost - Beta Testing Requested
- .NET ROS 2 Bindings
- ROS 2 CPP Nodes – Initialization
- 8 New and 74 Updated Packages for Iron
- Foxglove + ROS Open Class
- Cloud Robotics Community Group Meeting
- Introducing BotBox - A New Robot Lab to Teach Robotics and ROS
- Stop losing time on system software with Nova Orin
- ROS Maritime Working Group
- Micro-Ros / XRCE-DDS inter & intra task communication
- Medical ROS Community Group?
- ROS and Docker on Windows – Video
- D* Trajectory Planner
- ROS On Web – Web Assembly Magic
- ROS GMapping Editor
- ReRun.io ROS Bridge
- ROS Control BoilerPlate – Yes you can use ROS 2 Control with any hardware.
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