ROS News for the Week of January 1st, 2024
We’ve got a whole bunch of ROS meetups coming up including Karlsruhe Germany
The Netherlands, Lagos Nigeria Munich Germany.
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Check out the OK1, an amazing open source ROS quadruped that includes a full Gazebo simulation.
Events
- 2024-01-8 ROS 2 Rust Meeting
- 2024-01-18 Space ROS Community Meeting
- 2024-01-23 ROS Meetup in Karlsruhe, Germany
- 2024-01-25 ROS Meetup Netherlands
- 2024-02-03 ROS Meetup Lagos Nigeria!
- 2024-02-07 ROS Meetup Munich
- 2024-06-16 Food Topping Challenge at ICRA 2024
- 2024-06-19 => 2024-06-20 ROSCon France
- 2024 Open Hardware Summit Montreal
News
- CALL FOR MAINTAINER: ROSBag 2
- 2024 Internship Open Thread
- Spanner Rescue Robot
- ISR Europe 2023 article on “Educating Future Software Engineers for Industrial Robotics”
- Robot Christmas Videos
- BotBuilt Builds Homes with Robots
- Dataset: Agricultural Robotics
- COOL: Learning Bimanual Mobile Manipulation with Low-Cost Whole-Body Teleoperation
- 2023 in Review: Senior Enginer
- This new system can teach a robot a simple household task within 20 minutes
- COOL: Point Cloud to CAD
- Dataset: Large-scale 3D Expressive Whole-body Human Motion
- 3D Vision Tutorials
- SLAM evaluation tool
- OpenCV Fruit Sorting
- Awesome Gaussian Splatting
- Awesome Robotics Foundation Models
- Knightscope Gets US Gov Certification
- $418M Invested in Robotics in November 2023
- GreyOrange Raises $135M
- Skyline Robotics Raises $9.8M
- Softbank Parners with Formant - More
- PaintJet Raises $10M
- Pipedream Deploys in Georgia
- Outrider Releases Perception Tech
- May Mobility places autonomous vehicle bet on retirees
- Driverless cars in California are exempt from certain traffic tickets thanks to a legal loophole, report says
- Aurora and Continental pass first major hurdle in commercial self-driving trucks deal
- Massachusetts lawmakers mull ‘killer robot’ bill
ROS
- ROS Wrapped 2023!
- Open-RMF Released for Rolling & Iron
- Articulated Robotics on Docker
- ROS 2 tutorial on the unknown environment exploration
- Nav2 Now Requires DCO Sign Off
- New ROS Topic Monitor
- 3 New and 101 Updated Packages for Iron
- 24 New and 132 Updated Packages for Iron
- 4 New and 25 Updated Packages for Noetic
- ROS with Verilog
- Update on URDFDom Changes
- Humble + OpenCV + microROS Example
- BSL: Navigation Method Considering Blind Spots Based on ROS Navigation Stack and Blind Spots Layer for Mobile Robot
- OK1: Open Source ROS Quadruped
- Local Path Planning: Dynamic Window Approach With Q-Learning Considering Congestion Environments for Mobile Robot
- ROS Path Planning Examples
- RQT Gauge Cluster from Toyota
- PyRoboSim 1.2 Release
- Epsilon point control of the smooth differential drive model
- ROS Drivers for Bosch Off-Highway Sensor Systems
- MV-LIO: An Efficient Multiple Vision aided LiDAR-Inertial Odometry
- ROS 2 Laser Scan Merger
- ROS 2 Motion Capture Binaries Now Available
- ROS 2 for Beginners Video Series
- UI creation guide for learning mobile robots using Unity and ROS 2
- INF: Implicit Neural Fusion for LiDAR and Camera (IROS2023)
- TurtleBot3 + NED2 Tutorials
- Octo: An Open-Source Generalist Robot Policy