ROS News for the Week of December 10th, 2023
Congratulations to our colleagues in India for holding their first ever ROSCon! The event was sold out and it looks like it was a smashing success.
Drop what you are doing and go check out this ROS mining robot from a European consortium called RoboMiners. It has lasers, eats rock for breakfast, and has an amazing propulsion system, all using ROS and Gazebo.
Check out this point cloud to Gazebo model tool chain I found this week! This should make testing a whole lot easier!
Check out this handy LLM-based CLI tool @tomoyafujita put together called ROS2AI
Events
- 2023-12-17 Open Hardware Summit CFP Deadline
- 2023-12-18 Cracow Robotics & AI Meetup
- 2023-12-20 ROS-I Community Meeting
- 2024-1-18 Space ROS Community Meeting
- 2024 Open Hardware Summit Montreal
News
- RoboMiners Final Project Video
- SMERF: Streamable Memory Efficient Radiance Fields for Real-Time Large-Scene Exploration
- If I am reading this correctly, the French national railway plans on using ROS 2 Humble for R&D (LinkedIn)
- Agility is using large language models to communicate with its humanoid robots
- Our friends at Mujin Raise $104M
- Vulcanuexus Raises 10M €
- Move Fast, Break Things: Cruise lays off 900 employees, 24% of robotaxi workforce
- NVIDIA Isaac Sim on AWS to ease robotics development
- VC Perspective on Robotics
- ReBeL cobot gets low-cost, human-like hand from igus
- What You Need to Know about Robot Safety Standards
- New MISO Robotics Restaraunt
- 3D-Printed Screw Tank
- Multi primitive-to-primitive (MP2P) ICP algorithms in C++
Gaussian Splatting SLAM- Useful: SLAM Box – Slam tuning toolbox
- Octo: An Open-Source Generalist Robot Policy
Awesome Gaussian Splatting List- Awesome Point Cloud Place Recognition
- Awesome Robotics Foundation Models
- Open-Fusion: Real-time Open-Vocabulary 3D Mapping and Queryable Scene Representation
- SpaceDyn: Tools for Simulating Space Robots
- An End-to-End Tile-Based Framework for High-Resolution Monocular Metric Depth Estimation
- FoundationPose: Unified 6D Pose Estimation and Tracking of Novel Objects
ROS
- ROS/ROS2 package for Ultralytics YOLOv8 real-time object detection and segmentation.
- ROS 2 Rust Node
- Zenoh/ROS 2 bridge presentation & Turtlebot4 demo explained
- ROS 2 Navigation Tutorial
- Is Vulcannexus useful for me?
- ROS2AI next gen CLI
- 13 New and 122 Updated Packages for Noetic
- ROS Interop SIG Video on Rust
- Cool TB3 Mini Factory Project
- Creepy Santa using microROS
- Crowd Navigation with ROS
- Machine Learning Containers for NVIDIA Jetson and JetPack-L4T
- NOVA - An Autonomous Indoor Delivery Robot
- ROS 1/2 integration for KUKA LBR IIWA and Med
- Data Tamer ROS Support
- NI-SLAM: Non-iterative SLAM for Warehouse Robots Using Ground Textures
- ROS 2 Color Point Clouds
- ROS 2 Best Practices by Example
- ROS 2 Publish / Subscribe from Scratch
- Point Cloud to Gazebo World