ROS News for the Week of August 14th, 2023
Our first ever ROSCon India was announced this week. This is super exciting as a ROSCon in India was long overdue! We’re having five local ROSCons this year (France, Spain, Germany, Japan, and India) along with the big ROSCon in New Orleans.
The ROSCon 2023 talk schedule has been published!!!. Make sure to scoop up your tickets before September 3rd when the early bird pricing ends.
ROSCon was highly competitive this year, and only 35% of talks were accepted. If your talk wasn’t accepted please consider posting your work on ROS Discourse and submitting a lightning talk!
The next Gazebo release is brought to you by the letter “I”. Please help us name the next Gazebo release.
Moving robot data long distances without WiFi is a bit of a black art. Check out this example of long-range ROS 2 data transmission using SiK telemetry radios to learn all about long-distance data transmission
This really nice Dockerized pick and place demonstration project is a great place to start if you want to learn about ROS and Gazebo.
Events
- 2023-08-20 PX4 Dev Summit Developer Diversity Scholarships
- 9-14-2023 ROS By-The-Bay Vehicle Autonomy Edition (Save the Date)
- 2023-09-19 → 2023-09-21 TechCrunch Disrupt (ROS Heavy Lineup)
- 2023-9-19 → 2023-09-21 FIRA USA Ag Robotics Conference in Salinas
- 2023-09-26 ROSCon JP
- 2023-09-29 ROSCon Madrid
- 2023-10-03 ROS Meetup at IROS (Save the Date)
- 2023-10-02 → 2023-10-04 IROS Simulated Humanoid Robot Wrestling Competition
- 2023-10-17 MoveItCon @ ROSCon!
- 2023-10-18 → 2023->10-20 ROSCon 2023 New Orleans
- 2023-10-21 → 2023->10-22 PX4 Developer Summit New Orleans
- 2023-12-14 → 2023-12-15 ROSCon India
News
- ROSCon India Announced
- Name the Next Gazebo Release
- Bundle SDF from NVIDIA Source Released – Paper
- Robbing Delivery Robots is Now a Thing
- Beijing to create US$1.4 billion robotics fund as part of plan to become the industry’s ‘international industrial highland’
- Researchers are helping robots teach themselves to open dishwashers and doors
- New Unitree Humanoid
- Because Sarcos and Nauticus are public we learned that their revenue is much less than thier operating costs.
- ROS 2 & microROS Line Drawing Robot
- Atlantic: The Future of Recycling is Sorty McSortface
- NYTimes: AI Can’t Build a Highrise, but it Can Speed Up the Job
- I Raced My Self-Driving Car
- FLX Robot Demo Video
- Autonomous Wheelchair with ROS
- Women in Robotics: Top 50 Women you Should Know – Nomination Form.
- Zenoh August Newsletter
- How To Communicate The ROI Of Property Management Robots
- SLAMesh, a real-time LiDAR simultaneous localization and meshing method.
- Foxglove’s Improved URDF Support
- Automatica Conference Tour Video
ROS
- Really Nice Pick and Place Demo Code
- Coprehensive List of ROS 2 Resources
- Updated Guide to ROS 2 and Docker
- ROS 2 and VPNs
- Long-range ROS 2 data transmission using SiK Telemetry Radios
- ROS 2 & microROS Line Drawing Robot
- VR for Robot Teleop and Visualization
- 6 New and 13 Updated Packages for Noetic
- 35 New and 187 Updated Packages for Iron
- First Education Working Group
- Connecting Robots to AWS IoT Core
- Maritime WG Returns
- Time to fix libYAML
- Faster ROS2 Development with VS Code & Terminal Aliases
- microROS RPI Pico Integration
- Installation and Experimental Tests of a Low-Cost Lidar
Robotics Stack Exchange
The transition is complete! We’ve moved over most of the questions and ROS Answers tags to Stack Exchange. Please take a moment to swing over to Robotics Stack Overflow and answer a few questions.