ROS News for the Week of 7/12/2021

[Katherine_Scott]

ROS News for the Week of 7/12/2021

Introducing ROSboard: Web-based visualizations for ROS1 and ROS2

Robotics Science and Systems Conference was held this week. I saw a ton of great talks and papers and I only scratched the surface for this weeks update. If you saw some interesting work please post it in the comments.

Events

• 7/21/2021 ROS Seattle Meetup
• 7/25/2021 Black in Robotics Build a ROS 2 Robot
• 7/28/2021 Ignition Community Meeting – Topic Ignition vs. Gazebo
• 8/18/2021 ROS Industrial AP Workshop
• 9/21/2021 DARPA SubT Final
• 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

• Computer Vision from the 90s
• “The Future of Robot Perception: Recent Progress and Opportunities Beyond SLAM”
• Square Track Robot
• The Demise Of Robotics Companies: Learning From Past Mistakes
• WSJ on Fetch Acquisition
• Ars Technica: No Driver? No Problem!
• Open Dataset: Urban and Forest Areas from a Mapping Backpack
• RSS: Visual Navigation for Agriculture Robots
• RSS: Rapid Motor Adaptation for Legged Robots
• AstroBee gets Fingers
• micro-ROS runs on CAPRA Robotics
• DARPA Announces Teams Qualifying for Subterranean Challenge Virtual Competition Finals
• Great CVPR 2021 Summary
• Tesla “Full Self Driving” Version 9
• Abundant Robotics: Not so Abundant Funding
• Robot Pizzaria in Paris
• Self-Driving Vehicle Company Aurora (formerly Uber) Gets SPAC’d

ROS Related

• CyPhySS 2021 talk on CHAMP
• ROSCon JP Call for Proposals
• Simple ROS 2 Examples by Francisco
• Circuit Cellar: Intro to ROS
• ROS for Parrot Drones
• ROS Package for Visual Odometry for Event Cameras
• Web-Based ROS User Interface
• Dynamic Logistics Warehouse Gazebo World
• New ROS 2 Book (Japanese)
• SOBY ROS Robot
• ROS RedBoard Driver
• ROS 2 YAML Parameters
• Diff Drive Bot using Nav2, ROS 2 and Ignition Gazebo
• Introducing ROSboard: Web-based visualizations for ROS1 and ROS2
• MyCobot Tutorial
• ROS 2 Rolling Ridley – 63 New and 56 Updated Packages
• Best Practices for Naming Robot Arm Joints
• ROS Developer Day 2021 Videos
• Assisted Teleop: Call for Opinions
• Annotate Camera Images in Foxglove Studio
• Foxglove ROS 2 Bag Playback Tool
• WebTools WG Meeting
• Conway’s Game of Life in RVIZ

QUESTIONS

• How to Keep Track of Third Party ROS Packages?
• Best ROS 2 Launch File Documentation?
  • If you have real world experience with ROS 2 launch files please contact @Katherine_Scott. We need help to improve the launch file documentation.
• Guide for Multi Robot Simulations in Gazebo?