ROS News for the Week of 12/13/2021

[Katherine_Scott]

ROS News for the Week of 12/13/2021

Nav2 Now Available on Deep Racer

Our friends at Apex.AI raised a massive round of funding

Happy Holidays!

Events

• 12/17/2021 - Open Hardware Summit Talk Submission Deadline
• 12/19/2021 Nanosaur Deep Dive Live Stream
• January TBD - ROS Meetup at CES
• 1/31/2022 MBZIRC White Papers Due

News

• Tech Crunch: Apex.AI Raises Massive Round from Industry Vets
• Big Ignition Fortress Update
• Lunar Outpost uses AWS to Simulate Moon Robots
• Lots of festive robots. 3D printed antlers are a nice touch.
• Let’s set up a Simulation-Based CI Pipeline
• Open Robotics CEO in this week’s Tech Crunch Actuator
• New Savioke Robot Just Dropped
• Bjarne Stroupstrup on C++20 at CPPCon
• Trash Robot
• Manif C++11 Header Library for Lie Theory
• 20 Most Popular Robotics Stories of 2021
• Robot Dog V3: Inverse Kinematics & Cycloidal Drives
• Robot AI Beer

ROS

• NEW Client Libraries Working Group
• Spatio-Temporal Voxel Layer in Foxy, Noetic, Galactic
• Nav2 Now Available on Deep Racer
• How do you Launch Your Robot?
• Youssef Benmokhtar on Sense, Think, Act
• Apex.AI Raises $56.5M – They’re Hiring!
• Awesome projects with ROS with Francisco Miranda
• More ROS Fan Art
• IMPORTANT: ROS 2 Safety Working Group Survey!
• DevOps for ROS Part 2
• ROS Play Motion Builder Video
• Foxglove Websocket Protocol.
• Foxglove V0.24.0 Released
• Mocap4ROS2 Demo Video. Here is the source code.
• Minipupper Now in CHVMP
• Let’s Try Ignition Fortress
• What is ROS
• Choreonoid – Motion Editor ROS

Questions

• ROS 2 nodes created inside libraries, good practice?
• Difference between ABB Moveit! package and ABB ROS-I package
• How to explore the environment autonomously for a mobile robot in noetic?

This is the last update for the year! I’ll see everyone in 2022

[vmayoral]

Adding another one that just got published for those interested in robot hardware architectures:

• Modern Robotics Compute Architectures – Flexibility, Optimization is Key

Shortly:

How do I hardware architect the ros computational graphs of my robots ? How do I optimize data to flow from #FPGAs to #CPUs , from #CPUs to #GPUs , and all the way back?

This article discusses an introduction to the different compute substrates available to roboticists and the pros and cons of each one while providing additional perspectives on modern compute architectures for robotic systems. Briefly, it argues how robots are #networks of networks, with sensors capturing data, passing to compute technologies, and then on to actuators and back again in a deterministic manner. These networks must be understood as the #nervous #system of the robot. Like the human nervous systems, real-time information passing across all these networks is fundamental for the robot to behave coherently and for that, you need to use the right combination of compute resources.

To learn more about when to use an fpga , a #CPU , a gpu or an #ASIC in robotics read the full article.

[tkasiraj]

Hi Katherine Scot

We like to have one session on R0S2 for our team of engineers in SAEINDIA Southern Section.
Can you please let me know who I need to reach.

Regards
Kasi