ROS News for the Week of January 13th, 2024
If you happen to be in San Francisco for Photonics West we’re organizing and informal ROS meetup with OpenCV. If you are in the Bay Area I recommend taking an afternoon to walk the floor. The event is free and almost every camera and lidar vendor will be there.
Our next Gazebo Community Meeting will be on 2025-01-29 Well be talking about a new Gazebo Harmonic simulation for Hello Robot’s new Stretch robot.
On 2025-01-30 join us ROS By-The-Bay! @tomoyafujita and @Yadunund will be presenting.
Check out this new ROS 2 package for 3D voxel map to 2D occupancy map conversion.
Along similar lines, there is a new ROS 2 camera lidar fusion package that’s been released.
There’s a new tutorial in the ROS 2 docs thanks to @DLu: on how to build a custom RViz panel.
Events
- 2025-01-21 RMW Zenow Workshop w/ Zettascale – Calendar Invite
- 2025-01-22 Aerial Robotics Meeting
- 2025-01-29 ROS / OpenCV Meetup @ Photonics West SF
- 2025-01-29 Gazebo Community Meeting – Stretch Robot Simulation in Harmonic
- 2025-01-30 ROS By-The-Bay January 2025
- 2025-02-01 FOSDEM 25 – See Robotics and Sim Room
- 2025-02-04 => 2025-02-06 World FIRA Ag Robotics Conference in Toulouse, France
- 2025-02-12 Embodied AI Community Group #4
- 2025-02-11 Zenoh Advanced Features Workshop w/ Zettascale – Calendar Invite
- 2025-02-27 Zürich Robotics Meetup
- 2025-04-28 International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering
- 2025-05-30 => 2025-05-31 2025 Open Hardware Summit in Edinburgh
News
- JPL’s Team CoSTAR at the DARPA Subterranean (SubT) Robotics Challenge - YouTube– paper
- PyRoboSim Release 3.3.0
- OpenCV Perception Challenge for Bin-picking
- New MuJuCo Playground
- FOSDEM 2025 Robotics Devroom Schedule
Gazebo Citadel officially end-of-life- Live RMW Zenoh Workshop
- Emobied AI Community Group meeting #4
- Call for Papers and Demos · Robotics: Science and Systems
- Robot that can dynamically change its wheel diameter to suit the terrain
- Bendable Raspberry Pi microcontroller—RP2040 (Japanese)
- IAC 2025: Multi-Car Autonomous Race: High-Speed Overtakes and a Photo Finish!
- We Need a Fourth Law of Robotics for AI
- Collection of high-quality robot learning papers for bipedal robots.
- KiCad 8.0.8 Release
- Unitree’s Humanoids, Museum Robots, and More
- CES 2025 recap: Noteworthy robots at this year’s show
- NEURA Robotics raises $123M to continue developing cognitive, humanoid robots
- Symbotic to acquire Walmart robotics unit for $200M and build new systems
- Capra Robotics raises $11.6M to expand distributor and integrator partnerships
- Cyngn raises $33M to grow autonomous forklift deployments
- Raise Robotics deploys UR cobots with Harmon for high rise fastener installation
- Robots in nursing homes can improve patient care, employee retention, finds study
- IAC at CES 2025 features first race with four autonomous cars at once
- NASA Sets Coverage for Firefly First Commercial Robotic Moon Launch - NASA
ROS
- Fantastic Collection of ROS 2 / Gazebo Tutorials for Students
- Building a Custom RViz Panel
- ROS 2 Package for 3D Voxel Map to 2D Occupancy Map Conversion
- RoboVision ROS 2
- Isaac Sim / ROS 2 Control Sample
- Tackling ROS 2 Networking Challenges with Clearpath Robotics
- Customizable Template for Docker Environment Setup
- The forgotten gem that is environment hooks and DSV
- ROS middleware for underwater networks
- Announcing the Open-Sourced Robotics & ROS 2 Essentials Course!
- Ros2cd - a complete roscd replacement in ROS 2
- Dear RosNodeViewer: Visualize ROS 2 Node Graph
- ROS 2 Communication and Networking: A Brief Introduction
- ROS 2 camera lidar fusion package released
- Transforming Rahal Robot for ROS 2 Humble with Gazebo Sim
- Development of a user-friendly ROS2 GTK4 GUI with Adwaita theme
rmw_zenoh binaries for Rolling, Jazzy and Humble- Build Systems, Package Management, and Nix
- Learning-Based On-Track System Identification for Scaled Autonomous Racing in Under a Minute – code
- ROS 2 JetRacer
- RINO accurate and robust Radar-Inertial Odometry
- Radar4Motion: 4D Imaging Radar based IMU-free Odometry with Radar Cross Section (RCS) weighted Correspondences – paper
- Finetuning Generalist Robot Policies with Heterogeneous Sensors via Language Grounding
- MatchAnything Source Code
- pySLAM: a visual SLAM pipeline in Python for monocular, stereo and RGBD cameras.
- TDLE: 2D Lidar Exploration with Hierarchical Planning Using Regional Division
- Updates for April Tag models for Gazebo
- A ROS 2 package to provide gazebo-classic plugin for Livox Series LiDAR
- GenZ-ICP: SOTA robust LiDAR odometry (IEEE RA-L 2024)
Got a minute? 
Remember this ROSCon 2023 lightning talk from @methylDragon? I would love it if we had one new contributor close this ticket in the ROS 2 documentation. This is a great opportunity to learn more about lifecycle nodes and to become a ROS 2 contributor.