ROS News for the Week of February 26th, 2024
In manufacturing I’ve seen talented people do things with clever light placement that transform an extremely difficult computer vision task into something that’s easily solved. I came across this paper this week that does just that for the robotic manipulation of objects. The paper is titled, “Dynamics-Guided Diffusion Model for Robot Manipulator Design” and the authors use diffusion models to make simple grippers that can manipulate a specific object into a given pose. The results are pretty cool and could be very useful for any roboticist with a 3D printer.
Amazon is putting up US$1B to fund startups that combine robotics and “AI.” While regular startup investment has fallen off a bit, it looks like there are still funding opportunities for robotics companies.
Last week everyone was talking about how NVIDIA’s market cap had hit US$2T. According to this LinkedIn post they are putting that money to good use by funding the development of the open source Nav2 project.
Cross sensor calibration is a pain in the
. A good robot model can only get you so far, and getting a bunch of sensor data to match up can be difficult for even the most seasoned engineers. The Github repository below attempts to build a toolbox to fix some these problems. LVT2Calib: Automatic and Unified Extrinsic Calibration Toolbox for Different 3D LiDAR, Visual Camera and Thermal Camera – paper
Events
- 2024-03-06 Boulder is for Robots Meetup
- 2024-03-14 TU Delft ROS MOOC (FREE!)
- 2024-03-27 ROS Industrial Annual Meeting
- 2024-03-27 Robotics Happy Hour Pittsburgh
- 2024-04-21 Robots on Ice
- 2024-05-03 Open Hardware Summit Montreal
- 2024-05-13 Bots & Bento @ ICRA 2024
- 2024-06-04 → 2024-06-08 ACM SIGSOFT Summer School on Software Engineering for Robotics
- 2024-06-?? Workshop on Agriculture Vision at CVPR 2024
- 2024-06-16 Food Topping Challenge at ICRA 2024
- 2024-06-19 => 2024-06-20 ROSCon France
- 2024-08-05 Autonomous Systems Bootcam at Univ. Deleware– Video
- 2024-09-25 ROSConJP
News
- PyOLP – Python tool for Offline Robot Programming
- Rebar and Tie Robot
- Apple Car Canceled
- RobCo Raises $42.5M
- Airforce Uses Robots for Lab Work
- Amazon to drop $1B on Startups that use Robots and AI
- Gazebo Community Meeting on Pan-African Robotics Competition
- TRI’s Soft Robot Punyo
- Fleet Managers: Build? Buy? A third thing?
- ROSCon France CFP is Now Open
- NVIDIA Support for Nav2 (LinkedIn)
- CVPR Tutorials and Workshops Announced
- SVR and IEEE RAS Volunteer Form (also free desks at Circuit launch)
- Robot Report MoveIt Pro
ROS
- Cloud Robotics Working Group Meeting Recording
- Updates to REP-147 to Improve Drone Performance
- Development topics for Aerial Robotics - Indoor Navigation
- 5 new and 279 Updated Package for Rolling – Sync hold for 24.04 Migration
- Marine Robotics Conventions REP Discussion
- NVIDIA GTC Highlights
- Unified Calibration for 3D LiDARs, Cameras and Thermal Cameras
- Depth-Anything ROS
- RCL Wrapper for Fast DDS
- Awesome State of Depth Completion
- Bug Fixes and Logging with ROS 2
- Multi - LiDAR-to-LiDAR calibration framework for ROS2 and non-ROS applications
- ROS 2 / PlanSys BDI Framework
- LiDAR Odometry for Unitree L1
- What can ROS bring to my industrial robots? (French)
- ROSCon India 2023 Videos
- (COOL) Dynamics Guided Diffusion Model for Robot Manipulator Design
- RViz 2D Overlay Plugins
- H.264 Support in Foxglove
- What to do when your robot’s camera doesn’t work
- Fast and Modular Autonomy Software for Autonomous Racing Vehicles
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