ROS News for the Week of January 29th, 2024
The 2023 ROS Metrics Report is out! The big news is that we’re over the hump! ROS 2 is now downloaded more often than ROS 1. In October of 2023 more ROS 2 Humble packages were downloaded than ROS 1 Noetic. If you are still using ROS 1 it really is time to think about upgrading to ROS 2.
Everyone was talking about it this week: Amazon’s $1.4B iRobot Deal is Dead. Now what? – More – Podcast @ Robot Report – Robot Report. The iRobot team is a valuable part of the ROS ecosystem, and we’re all very concerned about our colleagues over there.
Check out this video from our first Gazebo Community Meeting of 2024. For this meeting a group from the Polytechnic University of Madrid presented on using drones and Aerostack 2 for the automated inspection of wind turbines. The meeting also had an amazing lightning talk about ColliderGen: a Blender plugin that helps you generate SDF collision models
It is Ground Hog Day here in the US. I’m a big fan of rodents, sensor systems, and bio-inspired robots so this paper for simulated mole rat whiskers for mining robotics using ROS caught my eye. The project is part of the EU funded RoboMiners ecosystem of projects.
I spent Tuesday afternoon with Phil from OpenCV Foundation checking out all of the cool new industrial cameras and sensors at SPIE Photonics West. I had a lot of great conversations with camera vendors about why they should create ROS 2 drivers and binary packages for their hardware. Anyway, the team at OpenCV asked me to relay the message that they now have swag for sale.
Events
- NEXT WEEK: FOSDem ROS / Robotics Birds of a Feather
- 2024-02-03 ROS Meetup Lagos Nigeria!
- 2024-02-05 ROS Rust Meeting
- 2024-02-07 ROS Meetup Munich
- 2024-02-07 NVIDIA Issac ROS Office Hours
- 2024-02-07 ROS 2 on Microcontrollers with microROS and Zephyr
- 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-?? Workshop on Agriculture Vision at CVPR 2024
- 2024-06-16 Food Topping Challenge at ICRA 2024
- 2024-06-19 => 2024-06-20 ROSCon France
- 2024-09-25 ROSConJP
News
- Amazon’s $1.4B iRobot Deal is Dead. Now what? – More – Podcast @ Robot Report – Robot Report
- 2024 NIST ARIAC Competition
- Mole Rat Whiskers for Mining Robotics using ROS
- PickNik Bin Picking for any Robot
- Kodama Robotics Mitigates Fire Risks
- January 2024 Gazebo Community Meeting – Inspection of Wind Turbines
- Interest Form for ROS-Industrial APAC Meeting
- Visual SLAM Playground
- OpenCV Swag Now Available
- ROSConJP 2024
- RoboTire Declares Bankruptcy
- These 30 Robotics Companies are Hiring
ROS
- 2024 ROS Metrics Report
- The ROSBag Graveyard
- Motion Capture in ROS 2
- Frustrations with State of Hobby ROS 2
- Navigation and mapping with Nav2 available over Foxglove Web UI
- Zephyr on microROS
- Easily Switch Between ROS 1 and ROS 2
- 26 New and 193 Updated Packages in Iron Irwini
- Explaining Kalman Filters with the Crazyflie
- ROS2 Cartographer Mapping: A Comprehensive Guide to Implementation and Understanding
- MicroStrain IMU ROS Driver
- 42 New and 303 Updated Packages for Humble
- Beluga: Monte Carlo Localization with ROS 1 & 2
- Supercharge Your ROS 2 Core: GitHub submodules, VCS, and Rosdep
- COOL: ColliderGen: Blender Plugin for SDF Collision Models – See Gazebo Community Meeting for Demo
- A SLAM implementation combining FAST-LIO2 with pose graph optimization
- CrazySim: A Software-in-the-Loop Simulator for Crazyflies
- kaia.ai: DIY Pet Robots
- Autonomous Navigation & Mapping with Foxglove and ROSbot XL
- Geolocalization for grid map using GDAL
- Real-Time Programming: Priority Inversion
- Support for ABB Robots with Omnicore Controlers in MoveIt
- SERL: A Software Suite for Sample-Efficient Robotic Reinforcement Learning
- A Review of Panoptic Segmentation for Mobile Mapping Point Clouds
- Omni Wheel Controllers for ros2_control
ROS Questions
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