ROS News for the Week of 8/2/2021
I really appreciate Dave’s Armoury using ROS to cool off his kids during the dog days of summer.
Rover Robotics Teased a new ROS 2 Robot this week.
Events
- 8/7/2021 - 8/13/2021 ROS Summer School in China
- 8/10/2021 MD&M Conference Panel: Interoperability to Increase Robot Adoption
- 8/12/2021 - 8/14/2021 Autoware Hackathon Oakland
- 8/18/2021 ROS Industrial AP Workshop
- 8/19/2021 ROS Industrial Community Meeting
- 9/21/2021 DARPA SubT Final
- 9/14/2021 PX4 Dev Summit
- 9/16/2021 ROSConJp
- 9/21/2021 - 9/24/2021 ROS 2 Industrial Training
- 10/5/2021 ROS 2 with Elixir
- 10/16/2021 Self Racing Cars Bay Area
- 10/21/2021 ROSCon is Back!
News
- Corvus Robotics on Mashable, Product Hunt, and IEEE Spectrum.
- Tangram on Camera Models and Distortion
- Yo! ROS Company Cribs.
- Thor: 3D Printed 6DOF Arm
- Hackster.io On MyAGV Robot
- Reuters: The robot apocalypse is hard to find in America’s small and mid-sized factories
- Spotlight: Steve Crowe, Editorial Director of The Robot Report
- Rover Robotics’ New ROS Robot
- Apex.OS 1.3 Released
- MIT’s first-ever Virtual Robot Competotion
- XGo-mini Quadruped Kickstarter
- Third Wave Automation Raises $40M
- The Slow Collapse of Amazon’s Drone Delivery Dream
- John Deere Doubles Down on Silicon Valley Robots
ROS
- MiniPupper - ROS, Open-source, Low-cost Robot Dog Education Kit
- ODrive Driver for ROS 2 Control
- High Assurance ROS Tutorial from IROS 2021
- 45 New and 211 Updated ROS 1 Melodic Packages
- 37 New and 96 Updated ROS 2 Foxy Packages
- 38 New and 134 Updated ROS 2 Rolling Ridley Packages
- Dave’s Armory Uses His Kids for Target Practice
- Fusion 360 to URDF Tutorial
- Project DAVE Underwater Robotics Simulation
- Open Robotics CEO at Reddit Robotics Showcase
- ROS 2 Port of Track Labs IK Solver