ROS News for the Week of 6/28/2021
I am posting the update early this week due to the holidays in North America.
Fetch Robotics Acquired by Zebra for $290M Congrats Melonee and team!
ROSIN / Fraunhofer Release Massive Collection of ROS 2 Training Materials
Happy 4th of July / Canada Day – Here is the “Beer Outdoor Transporter (B.O.T.)”
Events
- 7/9/2021 ROSCon CFP Closes
- 7/9/2021 ROSCon Diversity Scholarshop Application Deadline
- 7/25/2021 Black in Robotics Build a ROS 2 Robot
- 8/18/2021 ROS Industrial AP Workshop
- 9/14/2021 PX4 Dev Summit
- 9/16/2021 ROSConJp
- 10/16/2021 Self Racing Cars Bay Area
- 10/21/2021 ROSCon is Back!
News
- New 6-Axis Arm with Desktop Version and ROS Support (Japanese)
- Fetch Acquired by Zebra for $290M
- TechCrunch on Fetch Acquisition
- Traptic Raises $8.4M, releases Commercial Strawberry Harvest Robot
- Grasping / Reorienting Objects for Excavators
- Why Robots Can’t Be Counted on to Finding Survivors in the Florida Building Collapse
- RoboHub on ICRA Awards
- B.O.T. – Beer Outdoor Transporter
- Interesting Comparison of Physics Engines
- New Low Cost 360 ToF LIDAR
ROS
- ROSIN / Fraunhofer Release Massive Collection of ROS 2 Training Materials
- Pre-Release Testing with ROS 2
- ROS Mobile 2.1 Released
- June Ignition Community Meeting on Reinforcement Learning
- ROS NavStack Setup Tutorial
- 3D Mapping Using ROS
- PlanSys2 Is In Galactic
- ROS on OpenCV Weekly Webinar
- workon_ros EZ Toggling Between Distros
- 36 New and 104 Updated Packages for ROS Noetic
- Report from ROSCon France
- 4-Bar Linkages in SDFormat
- Distortion “Improvements” in Gazebo
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RoboStack – Cross Platform ROS Packages in Conda
17 New and 51 Updated Packages for ROS 2 Foxy - Great ROS Intro Blog Post
- Darknet ROS YOLO V4 Benchmarking (Japanese)