ROS News for the Week of January 30th, 2023
Despite the massive number of layoffs at tech companies the robotics market is still red-hot. The Robot Report says there was over a billion dollars in robotics fundraising in December alone.
This week we bid farewell to Gazebo Classic version 9. Don’t fret, Gazebo Classic 11 is still available. Why not try the new Gazebo Garden instead? Here are some templates to get you started.
Events
- 2023-02-09 Boulder Robot Happy Hour
- 2023-02-13 Reunión ROS Es/Sp
- 2023-02-14 Be an Issac ROS DevOps Hero
- 2023-02-23 How to Generate Synthetic Data for Training AI Models with Isaac Replicator
- 2023-02-15 ROS 2 Industrial Manipulation Workshop
- 2023-03-07 ROS Industrial Training
- 2023-02-26 Robots on Ice!
- 2023-03-?? Bangalore ROS Meetup
- 2023-04-08 Robot Block Party
- 2023-04-28 Open Hardware Summit
- 2023-05-10 Robotics Summit with our Dr. Grey
- 2023-06-02 ICRA Robot Wrestling Competition
- 2023-07-04 → 2023-07-05 ROScon France in Bordeaux – in conjunction with RoboCup
- 2023-09-26 ROSCon JP
News
- Sense, Think, Act Podcast: Improving Lives in Africa with Sensors to Monitor Disease in Livestock
- TechCrunch: There are still robotics jobs to be found.
- Robot Farmer is also a Gaurd Dog
- DeepPilot4Pose: a Fast Pose Localisation for MAV Indoor Flight using the OAK-D Camera
- DSL (Domain Specific Language) for specifying robots’ expected behavior
- Kimberly McGuire, Robotics Engineer at Bitcraze AB
- Sparse Decentralized Collaborative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Framework for Multi-Robot Systems
- ICRA Registration Now Open
- Robust Radar Odometery
- What slowdown? $1.14B in Robotics Investment in 2022
- Who is the Ag Robot of the Year?
- Rapid Robotics and Universal Robots team up to accelerate cobot deployments
- These Robots Might Build Your House
- A Quick Intro to Robotics
- Gazebo Classic v. 9 is now end of life
- WPI CS549 Computer Vision Course
ROS
- Fast DDS Performance Evaluation
- Live Video Streaming from your Robots to the Web
- 10 New and 134 Updated Packages for ROS Noetic
- ROS-I Survey of Workcell Designs
- Announcing the “swarm_ros_bridge”
- How (and WHY) We’re Upgrading ROS’s Kinematic Templates
- Cloudy: an open-source, 3D-printed robot designed and built by Robolaunch
- micro-ROS library for Platform.IO
- Groot2 Beta: Visualizing Behavior Trees
- The Why and How of ROS at Bosch
- High Resolution Pose Estimation Module
- Botx Differential Drive Slam Robot
- ROS / Gazebo Project Templates
- CRANE-X7 ROS 2 Package
- SWRI ROS Bag Database
- Turtle Chaser Repository
- CPP Con: Architecting Multithreaded Robotics Applications in C++