ROS News for the Week of August 21st, 2023
Please join us next week for the Gazebo Harmonic Tutorial Party. We’ll be testing the next Gazebo release ahead of the release in October.
The ROSCon 2023 schedule has been published, and things are getting down to the wire. There are only 8 sponsor booths remaining for ROSCon 2023, and we’ve set the sponsorship print deadline as September 1st.
We recommend you register as soon as possible as ticket prices go up 2023-09-03T07:00:00Z
Our friends at Magazino were acquired by Jungheinrich Photo of Magazino robots at Automatica, where they helped to put together our Munich Meetup. More at the Robot Report.
Franka Emika has released ROS 2 drivers for their robots. I am really excited to see robot arm vendors step up and support their own ROS drivers.
Events
- 2023-08-28 ROS Berlin Meetup
- 2023-08-30 Next Ed WG Meeting
- 2023-09-06 Foxglove Webinar
- 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)
- 2023-10-01 → 2023-10-05 14th F1Tenth Autonomous Grand Prix
- 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
- 2023-10-14 → 2023-10-15 ROSCon India
- 2024 Open Hardware Summit Montreal
News
- Gazebo Harmonic Tutorial Party
- ROSCon 2023 Schedule Published
- Microscoft Kinect goes EOL – Is this the replacement?
- Jitendra Malik – Building AI from the Ground Up – I am a huge Malik fan
- IEEE Spectrum Video Friday
- Autonomous Vehicles are Having a Moment in San Francisco
- SAE Podcast with Apex.AI: Scaling Autonomy for the Common Good
- Apollo Apptronik Humanoid – Techcrunch
- AeroVironment acquires Tomahawk Robotics for $120M
- Magazino Acquired by Jungheinrich – Robot Report
- Locus hits 2,000,000,000 Picks
- WSJ: America’s Bridges, Factories and Highways Are in Dire Need of Repairs. Bring in the Robots.
- Apple Formally Endorses Right to Repair Legislation After Spending Millions Fighting It
- Streamlining Robotics Communication and Control: A Step towards Automation
- How shall we best use simulation for Autonomous Vehicle (AV) development?
- Open Source Weed, as in farming, Detection Library
- Navigation University Workshop
- Visual Place Recognition: A Tutorial – overview
- BridgeData V2: A Dataset for Robot Learning at Scale
- Camera Crushes Lidar, Claims Startup
- Mapora: open-source georeferenced point cloud generating tool.
ROS
- Franka Emika ROS 2 Release
- RobotKube: Orchestrating Large-Scale Cooperative Multi-Robot Systems with Kubernetes and ROS – paper
- ODrive ROS 2 Can Package
- Roboost Project Update
- SMACC + Unreal Engine Demo
- Robot Interoperability Special Intrest Group
- Status Page now at status.openrobotics.org
- DX200 Support for MotoROS2
- Andino - Different ways to run integration tests for your robot
- Docker Versus Virtual Box
- ROS Container with Shared Memory Transport
- ROS GPT: Commanding robots using only Language Models’ prompts
- Path Seeker: ACML / Hokuyo Robot Project
- MVSim: Lightweight dynamics simulator for multiagents and mobile robotics research – Read The Docs
- An Introduction to Understanding Visual Robot Models with URDF
- Depth Clound now in RVIZ 2
- Matlab: Overcoming 4 Key Challenges in Cobot Software Development
- RQT Image Overlay
- ROS Sports!
- ROS DirEnv Shell Tools
- CT-LIO: Continuous-Time LiDAR-Inertial Odometry
- A Hash-map based Lidar-Inertial Odometry (A simple reproduction of fastlio 1.0 with Hash-map).
- ROS Yolact for Humble
- Darknet ROS for Humble
- Dedicated ROS 2 nodes for AI-enabled computer vision tasks
- Measuring Robot Motor Speed using Rotary Encoders
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.