ROS News for the Week of 4/11/2020

[Katherine_Scott]

ROS News for the Week of 4/11/2020

It is Friday!

From the ROS 2 naming discussion: could Galactic Gamaera be our next release? Should we have a socially distant community movie watching session featuring Godzilla vs Gamera?

Here is this week’s news collected from ROS Discourse and around the web.

General ROS News

• ROS 2 G Name Thread
• PLEASE help test Foxy Fitzroy.
• Are we ready to default to ROS 2?
• Students: Chinese Academy of Sciences Summer Program

Events

• Work Move It Day 6/2/2020
• ROS Developer Day @ The Construct
• Autoware Course lecture one is live.
• Robotics Today Seminar – live today is SLAM lecture with Andrew Davison at Imperial College London. Super high quality lecture series!

Funding / Startups

• Covariant Raises $40M Series B
• Link ROS Launches

Hardware

• RPI RoboHat
• RPI 2 + ROS
• Hadabot!
• Autocore SBC
• Spot Patent

Code/Packages

• Tiago + Google Assistant
• Rust based ROS optimizer
• Inference standardization in Autoware

Covid19 Response

• Pittsburgh Airport Cleaning Robots
• Amazon Cleaning Robot
• Hospital Delivery Robot
• Siemens disinfection robot.
• Run down of more Covid19 robotis.
• Brain Corp on Cleaning Robots

Everything Else

• Hot wire cutting robot from ETH Zurich

Got some other news or an event? Drop it in the comments.

[zmk5]

Thank you Kathrine for the weekly update! This is really nice!

[smac]

@Katherine_Scott

Galactic Gamaera

I then propose this to be the official beer of the ROSCon 2020 reception: https://shop.barebottle.com/product/glactic-o-j-hazy-ipa/

If you rent me a truck, I’ll drive the kegs from San Francisco forget that, I’m not going through the Rocky Mountains in November.

[jackp510]

Thank you for the Hadabot mention!