ROS News for the Week of 4/11/2020

Katherine_Scott · 2020-05-15T16:39:07.394Z

ROS News for the Week of 4/11/2020

It is Friday!

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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 · 2020-05-15T16:51:54.402Z

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

smac · 2020-05-15T22:21:22.570Z

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 · 2020-05-17T03:00:26.052Z

Thank you for the Hadabot mention!