ROS News for the Week of 10/12/2020

[Katherine_Scott]

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Indy Autonomous Challenge is starting to heat up.

ROS News for the Week of 10/12/2020

ROS WORLD

• REGISTER FOR WORLD
• Buy a ROS World T-Shirt
• Check out the ROS World Schedule

News

• Eli Hughes on the Amp Hour discussing Zephyr and other RTOSs (relevant to micro ROS)
• I might be on a list of women in robotics.
• Open Source Dynamic Biped
• Agility Robotics Raises $20M
• Uncanny Valley of Robot Dolphins

Events

• 8th ROS-Industrial Conference
• Intro to Robotics Workshop for Black Women in AI week
• Ignition Meetup for Hacktoberfest next Saturday
• Ignition Community Meeting Video
• All Things Open: Highly Customizable Open Source Robot Simulation

ROS Packages

• MicroROS meets MoveIt Demo
• Dave Coleman on ROS Developers Podcast
• ROS 2 Bag Tutorial
• ROS2AR ROSIN Technical Project
• VOXL m500 Drone Ships with ROS/MavROS
• ROS Industrial Video Competition Still Open
• Python Library for ROS Bag Tutorial
• ROSIN FTP Event Oct 22
• ROS 2 Rolling Update Released
• ICRA 2020: Robust, Occlusion-aware Pose Estimation for Objects Grasped by
  Adaptive Hands ROS Pakcage
• ROS 2: Foxy Update
• ROS Melodic Update
• Thinking ahead to ROSCon 2021
• What can MoveIt Do
• A New ROS2 Middleware Option
• MoveIt 1.1.1 Released

Questions / Discussion

• Chrome ends https loophole, what does it mean for Robot Web Tools over https?
• How to Bloom for Windows and Mac?
• ROS Unet Usage Error

[jackp510]

Kat, congrats on making the women in robotics list!

[Katherine_Scott]

Thanks. All the credit goes to the overly modest crew at Open Robotics. I am but their hypeman.

[DLu]

@Katherine_Scott

• Please submit a ROS WORLD lightning talk-DUE NEXT WEDNESDAY

Have there been any announcements about the change in lightning talk deadlines? The linked thread still says October 7, and the website still says September 30.

[Katherine_Scott]

My bad, video submissions are now closed. I actually watched all of them the other night. We got an obscene number of videos and all of them were amazing. Y’all are in for a real treat.