ROS News for the Week of April 1st, 2024
This week saw the release of MOLA, a Modular System for Localization and Mapping into ROS 2 Iron. The source code can be found here. The MOLA binary packages are available in the latest update to ROS 2 Iron Irwini.
NVIDIA labs teased their new Foundation Pose Library for CVPR 2024 a few months back. This week they released the source code for Foundation Pose. Word on the street is that they’ll have ROS hooks for it really soon.
Who doesn’t like piping hot and freshly baked ROS Docker container? 
@sloretz has been in the kitchen cooking up a pipeline to build ROS Docker Images every week!
ROSCon Diversity Scholarship Applications are by 2024-04-06T06:59:00Z
Events
- ONGOING: TU Delft ROS MOOC (FREE!)
- 2024-04-08ROS 2 RUST Meeting
- 2024-04-16 → 2024-04-18 Zephyr Developer Summit
- 2024-04-16 ROS Maritime WG
- 2024-04-21 Robots on Ice
- 2024-05-03 Climate Robotics Summit @ Penn
- 2024-05-03 Open Hardware Summit Montreal
- 2024-05-07 ROSCon Workshop CFP Closes
- 2024-05-13 Bots & Bento @ ICRA 2024
- 2024-05-14 → 2024-05-16 F1Tenth Autonomous Grand Prix @ CPS-IoT Week
- 2024-05-21 ROS Japan Users Group
- 2025-06-03 ROSCon Talk CFP Closes
- 2024-06-04 → 2024-06-08 ACM SIGSOFT Summer School on Software Engineering for Robotics
- 2024-06-?? Workshop on Agriculture Vision at CVPR 2024
- 2024-06-16 Food Topping Challenge at ICRA 2024
- 2024-06-19 => 2024-06-20 ROSCon France
- 2024-07-29 => 2024-08-02 IEEE RAS Multi-Robot Summer School Prague
- 2024-08-05 Autonomous Systems Bootcam at Univ. Deleware– Video
- 2024-09-25 ROSConJP
- 2024-10-22 → 2024-10-24 AgRobot FIRA in Sacramento
News
- @smac has 16 layer LIDARs up for grabs (LinkedIn)
Foundation Pose Library – CVPR 2024 – Source Available- RIP: Giant ROS Gundam in Yokohama
- Climate Robotics Network
- Agility Robotics lays off some staff amid commercialization focus – Robot Report
- Kiwi Buys A Chipmaker? – Robot Report
- ROSCon JP CFP Now Open
- Apple’s electric car loss could be home robotics’ gain
- Omnid Robot @ Northwestern
- YC Humanoid from K-Scale Labs
- Online Map Vectorization
- Demo: Resource Aware Collaborative Localization
- Universal Monocular Metric Depth Estimation
- Fully Open-source and Compact Aerial Robot with Omnidirectional VisualPerception
- (ICRA 2024) Decentralized Multi-Robot Navigation for Autonomous Surface Vehicles with Distributional Reinforcement Learning
- Obligatory April Fools Day Post
ROS
- It is finally here: ROS 2 Rust Beta Release?
- MOLA – Modular System for Localization and Mapping (Now in Iron!) – Source
- Discuss: What’s your CAD to Sim/Viz Pipeline? – Updated List of URDF Export Tools
- Freshly Baked ROS Docker Images
- What cameras are you using with ROS 2?
- 49 New and 123 Updated Packages for ROS 2 Iron Irwini
- Guidance on Contributing to Robot Web Tools
- Sysdep – A Simple System Dependency Tool
- Simulating Mobile ALOHA in Mujoco
- ROS 1 ABB OmniCore Wrapper
- ROS 2 Coco Detector
- Blue-Beary Bot from UC Berkeley Students
- Awesome 2D Lidars
- Fields2Cover 2.0 Release
- Cascade Lifecycle Nodes
- Efficient and parallelized algorithms for point cloud registration (C++, Python)
- Isaac ROS 2 Control