Image purloined from Michael Ferguson’s excellent blog post on restoring a URB-1 from Craigslist, and upgrading it ROS Noetic. It is worth a read.
News for the Week of 6/1/2020
TODAY IS FOXY RELEASE DAY. STAY TUNED FOR UPDATES
It is ICRA week. If you’ve seen something cool drop it down below. Hopefully we’ll coordinate a community reading list in the near future
Foxy and Noetic t-shirts are on sale until June 15th.
Business News
- Otto Raises $29M
- Locus Raises $40M Series D
- Novatel Driving Platform supports ROS
- Sphero creates Defense Spin Out
- Waymo Resarts Bay Area Testing (FWIW I saw Cruise cars out in San Francisco this week too.)
Events
- Dave Coleman Talk on MoveIt
- 4th Autoware Lecture
- World ROS-I Day
- PX4 Dev Summit in July
- Ubuntu ROS 2 Edge Webinar
- EProsima DDS Middleware Course
Tutorials
Everything Else
- How Cruise Does Simulation
- ROS, in the browser, using WASM
- Origami Robots, ICRA
- Weird Baby Faced Jet Robot Simulation
- Why Robotics Developers Need An Upgrade
- Hubless Wheel Robot
- Restoring High End Robots from Silicon Valley Craigslist
- ICRA Robotics Debates
As per always if you saw something interesting this week drop it in the comments below. If you have an announcement or a cool project please feel free to let us know.
