ROS News for the Week of December 9th, 2024
Our first ever ROSCon in China happened in Shanghai over the weekend! We want to congratulate the organizers on orchestrating such an impressive event. You can find a recap of ROSCon China here.
ROS 2 Iron Irwini is now officially end-of-life. If you are currently using Iron please consider upgrading to Jazzy!
Check out the HARP2 robot that was posted to the ROS Discord server yesterday. The developer’s website is full of really great posts that are worth checking out, especially on the topic of microROS.
The team behind TidyBot2 at Stanford and Princeton have open sourced the hardware for their robot. The robot supports a variety of arms and configurations allowing you to build a clone using hardware you may already have in the lab. See the docs for more details.
This week ROS Industrial released a comprehensive list of depth cameras for robotics applications. Even if you don’t need a new depth camera I recommend bookmarking this website for future website.
I want to send a big shout out @abaeyens for putting together this fantastic documentation on ROS 2 integration testing for docs.ros.org.
People often ask us how they can best contribute to the project. My recommendation is that when you run across something that feels not poorly documented take the time to summarize what you learned while figuring out how to solve the problem. That’s exactly what @abaeyens
did in this case and the results are excellent.
Events
- 2024-12-15 FIRA Ag Robotics Hackathon Registration Deadline
- 2024-12-16 => 2024-12-19 F1Tenth Sim Racing League at CDC 2024
- 2024-12-18 Aerial Robotics meeting - Xmas with Bitcraze
- 2024-12-22 Open Hardware Summit CFP Deadline
- 2024-12-31 Deadline for Natural Robotics Contest
- 2025-02-01 FOSDEM 25 – See Robotics and Sim Room
- 2025-02-04 => 2025-02-06 World FIRA Ag Robotics Conference in Toulouse, France
- 2025-04-28 International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering
- 2025-05-30 => 2025-05-31 2025 Open Hardware Summit in Edinburgh
News
- ROSCon China 2024
- ROS PMC Meeting Minutes 2024-12-10
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Launches new Journal
- We seek for your feedback to shape the future of Autoware!
- How important is ROS when searching for a job?
- RIP, Cruise robotaxi– The Robot Report
- Diligent Robotics’ new AI Advisory Board to advance embodied AI in healthcare robotics
- Anybotics raises $60M to bring more autonomous industrial robots to the US
- Amp Robotics raises $91M to build more robot-filled waste-sorting facilities
- AI Pioneer Fei-Fei Li Has a Vision for Computer Vision
- OpenAI, GoogleDeepMind, and Meta Get Bad Grades on AI Safety
- Robot Videos: Mars Helicopter, Sanctuary AI, and More
- Safe DDS Achieves ISO 26262 ASIL D Certification
- Call for “IFR’s Women in Robotics: 10 Women Shaping the Future of Robotics in 2025” is now open
- Grant for Students Participating in IEEE Robotic Standardization Efforts (SPIRSE)
- Robotics engineers are in high demand — but what is the job really like?
- Interest for a South Florida ROS Users Group?
- Video: Kids Train Their Own AI-Powered Robot
- Annual FZI Xmas Video
- NASA tests high-tech software for future mission to search for life on Jupiter’s moon Europa
- Navigating Hazardous Terrain at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- ELISA Workshop at NASA Goddard, Washington, D.C.
- Pen Plotter Robot Build
ROS
- Iron Irwini is End-of-Life
- QuIK: A ultra-fast and robust generalized inverse kinematics solver for C++/ROS2
- Towards a ROSdoc integation testing tutorial – Docs link
Gazebo Garden officially end-of-life- Extending URDF to include physical interfaces (plugs) and computing components (e.g., control boxes)
- ROS 2 Rust Meeting: December 2024
- Monocular Navigation in Duckietown Using LEDNet Architecture
- IROS 2024: Simultaneous Exploration and Photographing with Heterogeneous UAVs for Fast Autonomous Reconstruction
ROS Industrial 3D Camera Survey- Protobuf / ROS 2 interoperability layer
- DDS but in Rust
- ReFeree: Radar-based Lightweight and Robust Localization using Feature and Free space.
- GS-LIVM: Real-Time Photo-Realistic LiDAR-Inertial-Visual Mapping with Gaussian Splatting
- Exploiting LiDAR Fiducial Marker for Unordered Low Overlap Multiview Point Cloud Registration
- MOANA: Multi-Radar Dataset for Maritime Odometry and Autonomous Navigation Application – MOANA Dataset
- Video: Articulation Rigging with ROS 2 Bridge
- UniDrive: Towards Universal Driving Perception Across Camera Configurations
- Video: Zenoh User Meeting 2024
- URDF kitchen: A powerful GUI to help you create URDFs
- TidyBot++: An Open-Source Holonomic Mobile Manipulator for Robot Learning – docs
- Keyboard Controller for ROS 2
- Control Barrier Functions in Python and Jax – docs
- Collect, validate and send data reliably from ROS 2 to create APIs and dashboards.
- Large-Scale Dense 3D Mapping Using Submaps Derived From Orthogonal Imaging Sonars
- HARP2 Holonomic Robot
- Space ROS Isaac Sim
Got a minute? 
All we want for Christmas are pull requests to the ROS 2 docs. 