ROS News for the Week of August 28th, 2023
The Gazebo Harmonic Tutorial Party is happening over the next two weeks. If you have an hour or two to spare please lend the team a hand beta testing the next release.
Join us for our next ROS By-The-Bay. It’s required a lot of hustling on my part, but we’re going to have guests from Autoware, Indy Autonomous Challenge, F1/Tenth, and Autoware.
Vizanti for ROS 2 dropped this week. Vizanti is essentially RViz, but optimized for use on a touch screen in the field. Really cool stuff.
Our colleagues at eProsima released an ISO-26262 safety certified version of DDS this week! This is a big win for those who need to build safety certified ROS applications.
BUY YOUR ROSCON TICKETS BEFORE SUNDAY 
EarlyBird sale ends Sunday and prices go up after that! Don’t delay.
Heads up, I am actually going on a proper vacation next week. I’ll be deep in the woods of Michigan’s upper peninsula by the Two Hearted River, far away from anything resembling the internet, so no ROS news next week.
Events
- 2023-09-04 Lightning Talks + Happy Hour at PickNik Robotics
- 2023-09-06 Foxglove Webinar
- 2023-09-06 Bots and Beverages
- 2023-09-07 Special Interest Group on Robot Fleet Interoperability
- 9-14-2023 ROS By-The-Bay Vehicle Autonomy Edition
- 9-14-2023 ROS Robot Party Japan
- 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
- 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
- MoveItCon Announced!
- How to simplify robotics research with a native, ROS-based system
- Universal Robot for Welding?!
- Franka Emika files for Insolvency
- Autonomous Drones surpass expert humans – Nature
- Our ROS Illustrator on the Local News
- ROSCon DE Website is Live
- Let’s give these quadruped robot dogs next-gen XM7 rifles, says US Army
- Sheet metal DFM - design guidelines for formed and punched parts
- Meet Willie, The Autonomous Guide Dog
- GITAI Raises $15M for Space Robots
- Krone and Lemken rely on software from Apex.AI for autonomous farming machines
- Robotics sales decline for second straight quarter amid economic woes
- I have no idea what is happening here, but I like it.
- RoboTAP: Tracking Arbitrary Points for Few-Shot Visual Imitation
- Joint LIDAR / Camera Calibration
- NERFs for Street Views
- Big Updates for VSCode ROS
ROS
- ISO26262 Certified Safe DDS!
- LLMs + TurtleBot 4
- Modern Robotics with ROS Course
- Vizanti ROS 2 Release
- Migrating to official ROS 2 Ouster driver from the community version
- Transitive Terminal: Easy remote access to your robots, zero setup
- 15 New and 149 Updated Packages for Iron Irwini
- Update RCM (ROS Command Manager) to V1.3.6
- SMACC’s First Demo with Unreal 5
- micro-ROS Firmware on Roboost Robot
- Step by Step Guide for Gazebo Plugins
- List of Community Repositories in Gazebo Sim
- GSoC 2023: Dynamic wrench application through the GUI
- Empowering Education with an Open-Source Educational Robot
- Impressive Human to Robot Skill Transfer Demo using ROS
- ROS 2 Persistent Parameter Server
- Wireless Control and Remote Encoder Readings of Differential Wheeled Robot
- MeROS: SysML-Based Metamodel for ROS-Based Systems
- Cardboard is an unmatched prototyping material!
- Sending ROS 2 Message Types Over the Wire
- ESP32 — micro-ROS actually working over WiFi and UDP Transport
- Robotic Arms Workflow of MoveIt2 with ROS 2 for Motion Planning
- Minipupper Over Network
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.