ROS News for the Week of August 19th, 2024
ROSCon India 2024 was announced this week. The save the date announcement can be found here. More details and a proper website should be available shortly.
There are lots of things in the ROS ecosystem that could be better, and package creation is certainly one of them. We really appreciate that @jak has taken the time to build and maintain a ROS package called Turtle Nest that simplifies that package creation process. All ROS users are more than welcome to help improve the tools they use every day!
We have four different ROS events next week! We would love to see you there!
- 2024-08-27 Bay Area Autoware Meetup
- 2024-08-27 ROS Meetup Singapore
- 2024-08-28 Gazebo Community Meeting: Andino w/ Franco Cipollone of Ekumen
- 2024-08-29 Gazebo Ionic Tutorial Party
Want to put together your own local ROS event? @gbiggs gave some great advice on how to put together a ROS meetup here.
ROSCon 2024 early registration ends on 2024-09-03T07:00:00Z Early registration prices are $100 off, making it free to attend one of our seven fantastic workshops. We also have a handful of sponsor booths remaining. Given our current trajectory ROSCon 2024 might sell out, so I recommend you register as soon as possible.
Events
- 2024-08-24 Arabian ROS Meetup
- 2024-08-27 Pittsburgh Robotics Happy Hour
2024-08-27 Bay Area Autoware Meetup- 2024-08-27 ROS Meetup Singapore
- 2024-08-28 Gazebo Community Meeting: Andino w/ Franco Cipollone of Ekumen
- 2024-08-29 Gazebo Ionic Tutorial Party
- 2024-09-07 Silicon Valley Robotics Robot Block Party
- 2024-09-16 F1Tenth @ IEEE Smart Mobility
- 2024-09-17 → 2024-09-18 Control of a mobile robot and motion planning using ROS 2 (Japan)
- 2024-09-17 ROS Meetup in Waterloo Ontario
- 2024-09-18 Foxglove Actuate San Francisco
- 2024-09-19 ==> 2024-09-20 ROSCon Spain
- 2024-09-05 ICRA 2025 Tutorial / Workshop CFP Deadline
- 2024-09-18 ROS Meetup Stuttgart
- 2024-09-19 ROS Meetup Colombia
- 2024-09-19 ROS Meetup Argentina
- 2024-09-25 ROSConJP
- 2024-10-04 F1Tenth Race at IROS 2024
- 2024-10-21 → 2024-10-24 ROSCon 2024 in Odense, Denmark
- 2024-10-22 → 2024-10-24 AgRobot FIRA in Sacramento
- 2024-10-24 → 2024-10-25 ROS Industrial Conference EU in Odense
- 2024-10-23 → 2024-10-25 16th International Conference on Social Robotics +AI
- 2024-11-02 → 2024-11-03 ROSCon China in Shenzhen
- 2024-11-6 → 2024-11-7 ROS-Industrial APAC Summit
- 2024-12-03 ROSCon Germany
- 2024-12-04 ROSCon India
News
- OLogic Joins OSRA
- OSI: We finally have a definition for open-source AI – Latest Draft
- NSF awards Northwestern with $26M for dexterous hand research
- ROS Event at Porto Digital?
- New Open Source Turtle Robot
- Financial Support to Demo at ICRA@40
- Real Use Case for Humanoid Robots
- 12 DOF Hand for $400
- Loop Closure by Registering 3D Gaussian Splats
- Get Paid to be a Tesla Robot
- Failed Fintech Founder Joins Humanoid Race
- Alphabet Sells Mineral To John Deere
- Watch this robot quickly install roof shingles
- Swarmbotics founder plans to bring them to the battlefield
- Capra Robotics launches defense-focused subsidiary Custos Robotics
- Karl Storz Acquires Asensus
- Saildrone maps unexplored areas of the Gulf of Maine
- Window Hero to deploy Lucid Bots window cleaning drones
- 5 Things to Know About the JPL-founded Open Source Rover Program
- Video Friday
ROS
TurtleNest Package Builder- Understanding Misconfigurations in ROS: An Empirical Study and Current Approaches
- A new open-source node graph tool for robotics
- Official Nav2 Docker Images
- One Weird Trick for Gazebo Classic Performance Improvement
- MoveIt GSoC 2024 Results
- Maritime Community Group Recording on Project DAVE
- 70 New and 490 Updated Packages for ROS 2 Rolling Ridley
- Tiago Robot Runs on Harmonic – video
- ROS 2 Pick and Place with Arduino Braccio and OAK-D
- OpenCV Introduction to LIDAR SLAM with ROS 2
- NVIDIA Isaac Sim - MuSHR RC Car - Ackermann Tutorial
- Multi-Agent Motion Planning – Cool Video
- GaussianOcc: Fully Self-supervised and Efficient 3D Occupancy Estimation with Gaussian Splatting
- Stretch Community News
- AirSLAM: An Efficient and Illumination-Robust Point-Line Visual SLAM System
- Hugging Face Robotics Tutorial
- MCAP Editor
- Mastering Holonomic Control with NVIDIA Isaac Sim and ROS2: A Guide for the Kaya Robot
Got some spare time? 
We need ROS users to help make the ROS ecosystem better! Why not scratch your own itch by fixing an issue in the ROS 2 CLI? Most CLI issues are fairly easy to fix and your change will get used by the entire ROS community!