ROS News for the Week of July 19th, 2021.
AWESOME Corvus One Drone Demo – it uses ROS
Must Read Paper: A Comparison of SLAM Techniques
Hello Robot Simulation for Noetic / Melodic
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Events
- ROSCon Registration is Open
- 7/25/2021 Black in Robotics Build a ROS 2 Robot
- 7/28/2021 Ignition Community Meeting – Topic Ignition vs. Gazebo
- 7/31/2021 Reddit Robot Showcase with Keynote from Open Robotics
- 8/10/2021 MD&M Conference Panel: Interoperability to Increase Robot Adoption
- 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
- Installing Windows VM in a Linux Docker Container
- JetMax Robot Kickstarter
- Foxglove on the Orange Website
- New Microsoft Linux
- FTC Right to Repair Passes
- Open Source Mocap
- Drug Drones
- AWESOME Corvus One Drone Demo
- Path Robotics Raises $100M after Raising $56M
- ABB Aquires ASTI Mobile
- Robots Collide, Cause Fire at UK Grocer
- Google AI: Speeding up RL with a new Physics Engine
- OpenAI Disbands Robotics Research Team
- Google X Introduces “Intrinsic” – Wants to Ease the Development of Industrial Robots
- Mission Robotics Profile on Robotics 24/7
- Enabling Real-World Object Manipulation with Sim-to-Real Transfer
- Time-Optimal Planning for Quadrotor Waypoint Flight – check out the video
- 2021 NIST ARIAC Results
- Sniffy Bugs: Gas Seeking Nano Quadcopters
- 12 Robotics Teams Will Hunt For (Virtual) Subterranean Artifacts
- AI and Robots Are a Minefield of Cognitive Biases
- OpenCV 4.5.3 and 3.4.15 Released
ROS
- VRX 1.4 Released
- 158 new and 71 Updated Packages in Galactic Geochelone
- 63 New and 56 Updated Packages for ROS 2 Rolling Ridley
- Roomba ROS Robot Build Log (Japanese)
- Enabling Real-World Object Manipulation with Sim-to-Real Transfer
- IMUs with Legged Robot (Japanese)
- Paper: ROS for HRI
- ROS HUD Hack
- YOLO X ROS Package
- A Review of Physics Simulators for Robotic Applications
- Connecting Remote ROS 2 Nodes using Docker & VPN
- Corvus One - ROS-based L4 Autonomy for indoor drones
- [Nav2] A Comparison of Modern General-Purpose Visual SLAM Approaches
- MoveIt with Docker
- Hello Robot Stretch Gazebo Simulation for Melodic and Noetic
- ROS2 Easy-to-Adopt Perception and Manipulation Modules Open Sourced
- GMCL vs AMCL for Localization
- Handling messages memory Tutorial for micro-ROS