ROS News for the Week of February 5th, 2024
This was the week of robotics workshops and classes. There are a bunch of great events planned for the next few months including a free ROS MOOC at TU Delft, an ACM summer school on software engineering for robotics, and an autonomous systems bootcamp at University of Deleware.
While there have been a lot of robotics companies holding layoffs and shutting down it appears robotics investments are still up. For December 2023 there were $749M in robotics investments.
The first ROS Meetup in Lagos, Nigeria was a resounding success! I was super excited to see the social media posts roll in over the weekend. Here’s to many more events to come
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Brace yourself, the ICRA 2024 pre-print papers are starting to come out! Above is the video for, “A Method for Multi-Robot Asynchronous Trajectory Execution in MoveIt2.” Also checkout, “CrazySim A Software-In-The-Loop Simulator for CrazyFly Drones.”
Events
- 2024-02-13 Pittsburgh Robotics and Tech Happy Hour
- 2024-02-20 Maritime Working Group Meeting
- 2024-02-22 Manipulation Working Group Meeting
- 2024-03-14 TU Delft ROS MOOC (FREE!)
- 2024-03-27 ROS Industrial Annual Meeting
- 2024-04-21 Robots on Ice – Save the Date
- 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
- $749M in Robotics Investment in December 2023
- Dexory’s massive shelf-scanning robot comes to North America
- RAP-SAM:Towards Real-Time All-Purpose Segment Anything
- Daedalus Raises $21M for Precision Manufacturing
- Starship Raises another $91M – Robot Report
- New Mass Robotics Accelerator Class
- Waymo Hits Cyclist in SF
- Video Friday
- Robot Tongues for Robot Geckos
- AutoNavSim2D: 2D simulation environment designed for the development and testing of path planning algorithms.
- Weekly Robotics
- BBC on Indy Autonomous Challenge
- Iridescence: Rapid Prototyping for 3D Algorithms
- Dave Builds Real Life GLaDOS
ROS
- Space ROS Humble Release
- 0 New and 19 Updated Packages for ROS 1 Noetic
- 3 New and 209 Updated Packages for ROS 2 Iron
- 70 New and 721 Updated Packages for ROS 2 Rolling
- ROS MicroPy
- NE-Five Upgraded, ROSSerial and RP2040 Based Boards
- How to build full ROS2 deb packages for debian distribution which are built from source code
- Announcing New ROS 2 Driver for the AR4 robot arm
- NAV2 Support for TwistStamped Available (rolling, jazzy)
- Video: Interoperability SIG February Meeting
- ROS Coding Retreat?
- Presentation on skill based architecture and discussion of our REP draft
- First ROS Meetup in Lagos Nigeria
- ICRA2024 - A Method for Multi-Robot Asynchronous Trajectory Execution in MoveIt2
- ICRA 2024 CrazySim A Software-In-The-Loop Simulator for CrazyFly
- Footstep Planning for Humanoid Robots Using Perception-based Feasible Footsteps in Cluttered Environments
- Mermaid JS Charts and Graphs in docs.ros.org
- ROS 2 Basics Video List
- YOLOv4 on TurtleBot3
- Process of ROS2 for Computer Vision Pipelines
- ROS 2 Cookbook
- Articulated Robotics on Foxglove Controller PlugIn
- Autonomous Power Wheels
- Image Proc for ROS 2 now in docs.ros.org
- Omni Wheel Controller Example
- CPPCon: Robotics at Compile Time: Optimizing Robotics Algorithms With C++'s Compile-Time Features
ROS Questions
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