ROS News for the Week for November 11th, 2024
We’re preparing for the final Iron Irwini patch and sync. If you are still using Iron now is the time to upgrade to Jazzy.
Here’s your regular reminder that Gazebo Classic goes end of life in JANUARY and ALL OF ROS 1, INCLUDING NOETIC, GOES END OF LIFE NEXT MAY. We’re working on a few surprises internally to motivate the last stragglers to move over to ROS 2 and modern Gazebo.
Check out this amazing pick and place demo using ROS 2 on Hackster. The project makes use of an Arduino Braccio++ Robotic Arm, a Luxonis depth camera, ROS 2, microROS, and Edge Impulse.
This week some of our colleagues in Japan released Space Station OS based on ROS. The idea here is to create a standard ROS interface to space stations to enable robotic space station tending.
Clearpath’s amazing “Demystifying ROS 2 Networking” workshop at ROSCon includes this amazing network issue debugging flowchart that is worth sharing.
ROSCon 2024 videos and slides will be released Monday. 
Events
- 2024-11-20 Aerial Robotics meeting - Duckiedrone
- 2024-11-21 The Best Stuff from ROSCon 2024 on OpenCV live
- 2024-11-21 OSHWA Monthly Show and Tell
- 2024-11-22 F1Tenth Learning to Trust Autonomy Workshop at BU
- 2024-12-03 ROSCon Germany
- 2024-12-05 ROSCon India
- 2024-12-07 → 2024-12-08 ROSCon China in Shenzhen
- 2024-12-11 =>2024-12-12 Humanoids Summit Bay Area
- 2024-12-16 => 2024-12-19 F1Tenth Sim Racing League at CDC 2024
- 2024-12-22 Open Hardware Summit CFP Deadline
- 2024-12-31 Deadline for Natural Robotics Contest
- 2025-02-01 FOSDEM 25 – See Robotics and Sim Room
- 2025-04-28 International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering
- 2025-05-30 => 2025-05-31 2025 Open Hardware Summit in Edinburgh
News
SLAM Handbook- Farm Robotics Challenge
- These 60 robotics companies are hiring
- The Future of Robotics Regulation on OpenCV Live
- Back to Basics: Unit Testing in C++ - Dave Steffen - CppCon 2024
- MILES: Making Imitation Learning Easy with Self-Supervision
- Open Hardware Summit 2025
- Drone manufacturer Skydio raises $170 million extension round
- Vecna Robotics raises $14.5M and taps former Motional CEO to lead startup – More
- Kassow Robots’ new cobots designed for mobile manipulation
- Moxi reaches milestone of 100,000 autonomous elevator rides in hospitals
- The AI Institute introduces Theia vision foundation model to improve robot learning
- Fieldwork Robotics partners with Burro to help with raspberry harvesting
- Brightpick brings in $12M to deploy more mobile picking robots in the U.S
- Video Friday
- Report from First Embodied AI Working Group
- Sony Robotics Solution (AMR/AGV) with ROS 2
ROS
- Integration and unit testing in ROS 2
- Debugging ROS 2 Comms Flowchart
- Preparing for final Iron Irwini Patch Release and Sync 2024-11-18
- ROSCon DE Program Launched
- ROSCon JP Videos Live
- A C++ babeltrace2 plugin which replaces ROS 2 Tracing
- LBR-Stack paper just published in Journal of Open Source Software
- ROS 2 Pick and Place System with Edge Impulse
- PUMA560 Robot Manipulation using ROS2 and Moveit2
- @clalancette on Zenoh and ROS at Actuate
- ROS 2 PCL Segmention
- ROSCon 2024 Workshop: Zenoh
- ROS Arabian Meetup Video
- ROS 2 WebSocket Proxy
- Aligator: A versatile and efficient framework for constrained trajectory optimization
- Bonxai 0.6.0 Release
- Teaching Robots to Perform Tasks: Our Open-Source Project for Imitation Learning!
- Tools to use other simulators as an alternative to Gazebo
- Space Station OS released! - a future where anyone can develop space stations
- RobotCAD 4.0.0 - released! Let you make controllable robots from GUI
- Comprehensive Survey on ROS 2
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