ROS News for the Week of January 2nd, 2023

Katherine_Scott · 2023-01-06T20:39:55.122Z

ROS News for the Week of January 2nd, 2023

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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.

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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 · 2023-01-08T19:52:33.290Z

Hi!

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

system · 2023-02-07T19:52:42.477Z

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