ROS News for the Week of 4/11/2022
Diligent Robotics Raises $30M Series A – more on TechCrunch – Diligent’s ROSCon 2020 Keynote
The crime in San Francisco isn’t nearly as bad as the media makes it out to be, but this Cruise autonomous vehicle did flee from police after getting pulled over in my neighborhood
Sometimes I make memes as a positive outlet for my frustrations. [original]
Please upgrade your packages to ROS 2!
Events
- 4/19/2022 Zagreb ROS Meetup
- 4/21/2022 Pittsburgh Robotics: The State of the Autonomous Vehicle Industry
- 4/21/2022 ROS and Robotics Meetup Zurich
- 4/22/2022 Open Hardware Summit
- 5/10/2022 - 5/11/2022 Robotics Summit & Expo
- 5/23/2022 Workshop On Opportunities and Challenges with Autonomous Racing
- 5/23/2022 Electro Design Robot Frameworks for Developers
- 5/27/2022 ICRA Workshop on Governance of Lethal Autonomous Weapons
- 5/27/2022 6th ICRA Workshop on Legged Robotics
- 5/27/2022 ICRA 2022 Workshop on Releasing Robots into the Wild: Simulations, Benchmarks, and Deployment
- 4th International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering 2022
- 5/23/2022 → 5/27/2022 F1Tenth at ICRA
- 6/9/2022 ROS-Industrial Annual Meeting
- 6/18/2022 ROS Developer Day
- 6/22/2022 → 6/23/2022 ROSCon France
- 6/23/2022 PX4 Developer Summit
- 7/1/2022 Full Contact Robots at RSS
- 7/31/2022 → 8/1/2022 Reddit Robot Showcase
- 9/14/2022 → 9/16/2022 We Robot Conference (Robot Ethics)
News
- Ubuntu on Ukrainian Robotics
- Sense, Think, Act with Dayo McIntosh of Yateou
- Traning Robots in VR Demo
- NASA’s Self-Driving Perseverance Mars Rover Is Breaking Records
- End-to-End Optimization of LiDAR Beam Configuration
- FedEx will start testing a 1,900-pound drone for hauling packages
- Kibo Robot Programming Challenge – Space Robot Challenge
- Honeywell Partners with Otto Motors
- Miso Robotics Partners with Panera to Monitor Coffee
- VIZY: Linux Powered AI Camera from Produce of Pixy
- Diligent Robotics Raises $30M Series A – More on TechCrunch
- OpenCV on Segmentation Types
- Wrapping Your Head Around Numerical Precision
- Autonomous Cruise Vehicle gets Pulled Over in San Francisco
- TC on Robotics This Weeks
- Liquid Robot
- Terradepth Raises $20M to Map the Sea Floor
- Women in Robotics Mentorship Program
- iRobot Launches Create 3, With ROS 2 Built In
- Really Good Content Marketing from Mouser on Cable and Connector Selection
- SLAM Framework for Efficient Wireless Communications
- BirdBot, a 3D-printed bipedal robot
- ICRA2022 Talk Autonomous Teamed Exploration of Subterranean Environments with Legged & Aerial Robots
- Self-supervised Transparent Liquid Segmentation for Robotic Pouring
- AutoRF: Learning 3D Object Radiance Fields from Single View Observations
- ICRA 2022 Preview from UCSD
- Hydra: A Real-time Spatial Perception Engine for 3D Scene Graph Construction and Optimization
- Nature: DeepLabCut for Animal ID, Pose Estimation, and Tracking
- Deep Science: Combining vision and language could be the key to more capable AI
- ST-RRT*: Asymptotically-Optimal Bidirectional Motion Planning through Space-Time
- iSDF: Real-Time Neural Signed Distance Fields for Robot Perception
ROS
- Open Robotics GSoC 2022 Projects – and GSoD projects
- Map->base->odom as alternative for REP-105 recommended frame order
- Call for Videos – ROS Industrial at 10
- Use Poetry in your ROS2 packages with colcon-poetry-ros!
- Upcoming ROS 2 Humble Beta and Call for Testing
- New packages for ROS 2 Rolling Ridley 2022-04-12
- myCobot | an open-source 6-DOF robotic arm powered by ROS
- Jerk-limited trajectory smoothing in MoveIt2!
- iRUAV R&D/academic aerial robot
- A new era for Gazebo (cross-post)
- Big Updates for Ignition Gazebo Edifice / Fortress
- GBPlanner ROS package from DARPA SubT
- Simulations for Mobile Robots
- Computerphile: Automating Spot with ROS
- Behavior Tree Workshop Video
- LIO-SAM: Tightly-coupled Lidar Inertial Odometry via Smoothing and Mapping ROS Package
- F1Tenth on Foxy Docs
- micro-ROS on PlatformIO Call to Action
- Nanosaur on Hackaday.io
- Reinforcement Learning on TurtleBot3 Robot
- A Soft Introduction to Visual SLAM with @smac