ROS News for the Week of April 3rd, 2023
CFP season is here! The ROSCon CFP for talks and workshops is now open, and we are also now taking diversity scholarship applications. I believe ROSCon France, ROSCon Spain, and ROSCon Japan are also accepting talk proposals. PX4 has also opened up the CFP for their developer summit.
Black Coffee Robotics has been killing it lately. It is definetly worth checking out their tutorials. This week they released a ROS plugin to control Actors in Gazebo Simulation.
There’s nothing like the cloying rush of a Marshmallow Peep 
. This seasonally appropriate video from Soft Robotics takes you inside the marshmallow Peep factory.
Don’t miss our Singapore crew’s ROS Meetup next week as well as FOSSASIA.
Events
- PLEASE READ: Changes to OSRF Events Calendar
- 2023-04-06 → 2023-04-09 RoboGames Bay Area
- 2023-04-08 Robot Block Party
- 2023-04-10 ROS Spain Meetup
- 2023-04-11 ROS-I Developers Meeting
- 2023-04-12 How to Get Started with Rust for Robotics
- 2023-04-13 Panel: How Open Source Technologies are Accelerating Robotic Innovation
- 2023-04-13 → 2023-04-14 ROS Workshop in Argentina
- 2023-04-13 FOSSASIA: How open source empowers the robotics world: The Robotics Middleware Framework in Singapore
- 2023-04-15 FOSSASIA: Mapping in digital twins for autonomous navigation in the real world.
- 2023-04-15 FOSSASIA: ECS Techniques for Robotics Simulation
- 2023-04-15 ROS Meetup Singapore
- 2023-04-27 MoveIt Maintainer Meeting
- 2023-04-28 Open Hardware Summit
- 2023-04-28 ROS Meetup Delhi
- 2023-05-01 AI / Robotics Venture Fair at CMU
- 2023-05-10 Robotics Summit with our Dr. Grey
- 2023-05-23 Automate Startup Challenge
- 2023-05-24 → 2023-05-25 ROS Industrial Annual Meeting
- 2023-06-01 - 2023-06-03 Toulouse Robot Race
- 2023-06-02 ICRA Robot Wrestling Competition – More Info
- 2023-06-08 World MoveIt Day
- 2023-07-04 → 2023-07-05 ROScon France in Bordeaux –in conjunction with RoboCup
- 2023-07-04 → 2023-07-05 ROS Industrial EU
- 2023-07-09 ROSCon Submission Deadline
- 2023-08-14 - 2023-08-25 ROS Summer School
- 2023-09-26 ROSCon JP
- 2023-09-29 ROSCon Madrid
- 2023-10-18 → 2023-10-20 ROSCon 2023 New Orleans
- 2023-10-21 → 2023-10-22 PX4 Developer Summit New Orleans
News
- Peep These Robots
- Top Ten Robotics Stories of March 2023
- The Robots Are Already Here
- Covariant Raises $75M
- Roboto Raises $4.8M, Exits Stealth
- PickNik Rebrand
- OSRF Donates TurtleBots to Home Brew Robotics Club
- OpenCV Webinar: AI Meets Server Level Performance
- Urban Machine Uses Robots to Save Lumber from Landfill
- Please add your available robotics jobs to this listing from TechCrunch – context
- Five Tips for Rolling Out Robots
- How Auterion Works With The Dronecode Foundation to Advance Drone Open Standards
- PX4 Developer Summit CFP Open Now
- Axios: AI-powered robots could fix recycling’s biggest problems
- Formant Panel on Common Challenges in Robotic Farming
- Podcast with Amp VP Josh Hollin
Papers
- SSMI: Semantic OcTree Mapping and Shannon Mutual Information Computation for Robot Exploration
- Autonomous mobility in Mars exploration: recent achievements and future prospects
- Achieving 4000x Speedups and Meta-Evolving Discoveries with PureJaxRL
- DITTO-NeRF: Diffusion-based Iterative Text To Omni-directional 3D Model
- GlueStick: Robust Image Matching by Sticking Points and Lines Together
- MID-Fusion Octree-based Object-Level Multi-Instance Dynamic SLAM
- Visual-Inertial Multi-Instance Dynamic SLAM with Object-level Relocalisation
- GP-NeRF: Efficient Large-scale Scene Representation with a Hybrid of High-resolution Grid and Plane Features
ROS
- ROS plugin to control Actors in Gazebo Simulation
- ROS 2 Node for PlayStation Joy Controller
- iRobot Tutorials for ROS 2
- Cartographer Documentation and Maintenance
- ROSCon 2023 CFP + Diversity Scholarships Now Open
- ROS 2 Benchmark Open Source Release
- Awesome Cloud Robotics
- Issac ROS Developer Preview
- NEW: OSRF Project Committee for Infrastructure
- NEW: ROS Deliberation Working Group
- ROSConJP CFP Now Open
- Adding thread attributes configuration in ROS 2 framework
- LLAMA for ROS 2
- ROS 2 Latencies for High Frequencies using the EventExecutor
- ROS Node for Text To Speech in Japanese