ROS News for the Week of 4/18/2022
Ever want to control your face using ROS? Well now you can!
RoboRat is a thing. – I may be biased
Our good friends at Rapyuta Robotics just raised $51M from Goldman Sachs
Events
- 4/22/2022 Open Hardware Summit
- 4/26/2022 Cogniteam ROS Webinar
- 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
- F1Tenth at ICRA 5/23/2022 → 5/27/2022
- 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
- ROBORAT! – More at IEEE
- RSS 2022: You Only Demonstrate Once
- Rapid Iterative Design and Testing with TRIKart
- Hello Robot Used as an Assistive Device
- Rapyuta Raises $51M from Goldman Sacks
- Policy Search for Model Predictive Control with Application to Agile Drone Flight
- Andrea Thomaz (co-founder of Diligent Robotics): socially intelligent automation solutions for hospitals
- Willy Pell from Blue River Technology brings AI to the farm
- Helping Drone Swarms Avoid Obstacles Without Hitting each Other
- GANgealing: GAN-Supervised Dense Visual Alignment
- May Mobility to intro wheelchair-accessible autonomous shuttles
- NICE-SLAM: Neural Implicit Scalable Encoding for SLAM
- In-the-wild 3D Scans
- A New State of the Art for Unsupervised Vision
- Hospital Robots Are Helping Combat a Wave of Nurse Burnout
- Iterative Residual Policy for Goal-Conditioned Dynamic Manipulation of Deformable Objects
- Policy Search for Model Predictive Control
- UR+ ecosystem adds VR solutions to teleoperate cobots
- $1 Billion Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund
ROS
- Open Robotics is Hiring!
- Integrating the Nav2 Stack with NVIDIA Isaac ROS GEMs
- MoveIt for Aerospace Automation Tasks
- Custom Object Detection Training using YOLOv5
- A ROS Driver Azure Kinect Developer Kit
- ROS-FACE – Control Your Face with ROS
- HeRo 2.0, an Ultra-Low Cost 3D-printed Swarm Robot
- PX4 Gazebo Drone with Camera
- ROS 2 Rust with VSCode
- ROS2 enabled 2D mobile robot simulator for behavior prototyping.
- Map->base->odom as alternative for REP-105 recommended frame order
- ROS 2 Babel Fish
- NVIDIA Nav2 Isaac ROS Gem
- 42 New and 64 Updated Noetic Packages
- PX4 Developer Summit 2022
- Rolling (and soon Humble) release of both cartographer and cartographer-ros v2 (and call for testing)
- ROS-Based 3D Printed Force Torque Sensor