ROS News for the Week of January 2nd, 2023

[Katherine_Scott]

ROS News for the Week of January 2nd, 2023

Happy New Year! The new year means two things: every robotics journalist and influencer spent the last two weeks writing a “2022 Recap” and people with open-source side projects got some dedicated time to work on them. You’ll find many of them below.

This week through the weekend is the Consumer Electronics Show and there were a lot of big announcements from robotics companies. Here is a complete list of robotics companies at CES along with more in-depth coverage from TechCrunch. Don’t miss the Indy Autonomous Challenge live stream tomorrow.

Events

• 2023-01-07 Indy Autonomous Challenge Live Stream at CES
• 2023-01-11 Creating a ROS 2 Open Source Distro
• 2023-01-12 Spanish ROS Reunion
• 2023-01-17 ROS Meetup Pune, India
• 2023-02-01 ROS Meetup Munich, Germany

News

• Complete List of Robots at CES
• Tech Crunch on Robotics at CES
• Awesome Design and Tradeoff Analysis of 3D Printed Harmonic and Cyclodial Drives
• ROS Industrial: Teaching an Old Robot New Tricks
• Ganymed Raises €15M Series B
• Camera Calibration: Tips and Techniques
• Robotics Science and Systems: Call for Workshops
• SAFE.AI Raises $38M for Heavy Industry Robotics
• IEEE Spectrum: Top 10 Robotics Stories of 2022
• My Vote for Best Robot at CES 2023
• Python Library of Point Cloud Utilities
• OpenCV Weekly Webinar: 2023 CV Predictions
• 3D Visualization Library for Prototyping
• Getting Started with YOLOv5 Instance Segmentation
• ALIKE: Accurate and Lightweight Keypoint Detection and Descriptor Extraction
• NVIDIA upgrades Isaac Sim robotics simulation tool

ROS

• Lichee Pi, RISC-V, and ROS
• Announcing Release 2.0 of the VRX Simulation Environment
• New Navigator Plugin Types
• Holiday Video and Package Recap from NORLAB.
• Noetic API breakage for MoveIt
• MiniPupper Runs Humble Now!
• CFP: Robotics Software Engineering 2023
• Behavior Tree 2022 Recap
• Making robot navigation easy with Nav2 and ROS!
• Construct Podcast: Hardware Acceleration in ROS 2
• Robotic Sea Bass: 2022 Review – The Year of ROS 2
• ROS 2 Docs in French
• Library for ORB-SLAM3 with Lidar Data
• Easy Controller 2: A simple BLDC Motor Controller
• ROS Package for HD Ground Mapping and Segmentation by Accumulation of Scan Data
• 12 New and 74 Updated Packages for ROS Melodic
• 2 New and 103 Updated Packages for ROS Noetic
• Cascade Lifecycle Nodes
• Message flow analysis with complex causal links for distributed ROS 2 systems–source code
• Hardware-accelerated 3D scene reconstruction and Nav2 local costmap provider using nvblox
• ROS 2 Robot-to-Anything with Zenoh

ROS Questions

• microROS service hangs on first call
• Best practice about creating new node from existing on?
• Remapping Action Clients

[msadowski]

Hi!

Throwing another yearly summary out there that was published in Weekly Robotics: Robotics in 2022 - the most interesting applications, research and DIY projects