ROS News for the week of 6/22/2020

[Katherine_Scott]

Giant Gundam in Yokohama starts moving. We hear it runs ROS!

ROS News for the week of 6/22/2020

It was a bit of slow news week, in no particular order here are some updates.

• Ceiling SLAM Package
• Autoware Lecture 7
• Python SLAM Course
• Wire Viz tool for documenting cables
• RBR50 List – check out how many ROS companies are included!
• Cannonical on ROS 2 Foxy Security
• ROS Industrial Meeting Slides
• Fresh Foxy Packages
• State Machine Asynchronous C++ Library
• Freedom Launches ROS Teleop Service
• How to Handle ROS Skeptics
• ROS Rolling Ridley Release
• DARPA Releases Systems Track Robots for Virtual Competition

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[vmayoral]

A short update on cybersecurity concerning a ROS powered robot: https://aliasrobotics.com/case-study-pentesting-mir.php.

The study case contains some of the results we’ve made public regarding one of lead Autonomous Mobile Robot manufacturers. Full story of our attempts to cooperate with Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) on security available at https://news.aliasrobotics.com/the-week-of-mobile-industrial-robots-bugs/.

[EndikaGu]

Alias Robotics Youtube channel even has some videos of some feasible attacks in these kind of AMRs, Including some ROS-related exploits.