ROS News for the Week of July 22nd, 2024
The ROSCon JP logo was released this week and it is super awesome like always! The event is just two months away!
Check out the Wolf Actuator, a high-torque, 3D-printable, open hardware planetary robotic actuator.
It was a big week for ROS sensors. Our friends over at Fraunhofer released an updated ROS 2 driver for GenICam-based (GigEVision and USB3Vision) cameras. My intern, @Akashleena, is working on a summer project to provide guidance to sensor vendors on how to best support the ROS community. If you have a second please weigh in on what makes a good sensor package in this thread.
We’ve got three ROS and Gazebo events happening next week!
2024-07-30 Celebrating Women in Open Source Robotics @ Intrinsic
2024-07-31 Gazebo Community Meeting
2024-08-01 ROS By-The-Bay: Cloud Robotics
Events
- 2024-07-29 => 2024-08-02 IEEE RAS Multi-Robot Summer School Prague
- 2024-07-30 Celebrating Women in Open Source Robotics @ Intrinsic
- 2024-07-31 Gazebo Community Meeting
- 2024-08-01 Interoperability Interest Group - Multi-Agent Process Workflows
- 2024-08-01 ROS By-The-Bay: Cloud Robotics
- 2024-08-05 Autonomous Systems Bootcamp at Univ. Deleware– Video
- 2024-08-08 Improving Robot Uptime Webinar
- 2024-08-16 => 2024-08-17 Ubucon Latin America
- 2024-08-27 Pittsburgh Robotics Happy Hour
- 2024-09-07 Silicon Valley Robotics Robot Block Party
- 2024-09-16 F1Tenth @ IEEE Smart Mobility
- 2024-09-17 → 2024-09-18 Control of a mobile robot and motion planning using ROS 2 (Japan)
- 2024-09-18 Foxglove Actuate San Francisco
- 2024-09-19 ==> 2024-09-20 ROSCon Spain
- 2024-09-25 ROSConJP
- 2024-10-21 → 2024-10-24 ROSCon 2024 in Odense, Denmark
- 2024-10-22 → 2024-10-24 AgRobot FIRA in Sacramento
- 2024-10-24 → 2024-10-25 ROS Industrial Conference EU in Odense
- 2024-10-23 → 2024-10-25 16th International Conference on Social Robotics +AI
- 2024-11-02 → 2024-11-03 ROSCon China in Shenzhen
- 2024-11-6 → 2024-11-7 ROS-Industrial APAC Summit
- 2024-12-03 ROSCon Germany
News
- ROS Industrial Conference EU at ROSCon
- Gazebo Ionic Feature Freeze Starts Today (2024-07-26)!
Wolf Actuator: high-torque 3D-printable planetary robotic actuator - Monarch Tractor raises $133M Round – Robot Report
- Researchers are training home robots in simulations based on iPhone scans
- Alphabet X spinoff Skip partners with Arc’teryx to bring ‘everyday’ exoskeleton to market
- Alphabet pours $5B into Waymo, Cruise scraps the Origin and Elon’s bet on autonomy
- A&K Robotics Launches Mobility Robots at Vancouver Airport
- Asensus Surgical Robot Recieves FDA Clearance
- Kodiak pivots to Driver as a Service
- Indy Autonomous Sets Hill Climb Speed Record
- Saronic Raises $175M Series B
- Video Friday
- A Simulation Benchmark for Autonomous Racing with Large-Scale Human Data
- FSNet: Full-Scale Unsupervised Monocular Depth Prediction from well-calibrated/tracked image sequences.
- NIDS-Net: A unified framework for novel instance detection and segmentation
- Cross Anything: General Quadruped Robot Navigation through Complex Terrains
ROS
- What makes for a good ROS 2 sensor?
- Camera_aravis2 release for GigE cameras on ROS2
- 70 New and 179 New Packages for ROS 2 Jazzy
- Best practices for accessing non-controls information alongside ros2_control
- Open VDB Compile Size
- How does an IMU work in Limo?
- Interoperability Interest Group August 01, 2024: Multi-Agent Process Workflows
- How to Restrict ROS 2 DDS Comms to Specific Network Interfaces
- CrissNav Open Source Robot Simulation
- How to Correctly Install MoveIt2 in ROS2 Humble and How to Start with Motion Planning of Robots
- Nexus: A ROS 2 framework which enables configuration and orchestration of process workflows for both individual robotic cells and sets of cells
- YASMIN (Yet Another State MachINe)
- Time synchronisation between ROS2 and Gazebo
- Motion Planning with Nvidia cuRobo and ROS 2
- MAP-ADAPT Real-Time Quality-Adaptive Semantic 3D Maps
- Graph-based SLAM-Aware Exploration with Prior Topo-Metric Information.
- Characterizing the Complexity of Social Robot Navigation Scenarios.
- Mink: Python inverse kinematics based on MuJoCo
- LLAMA ROS
- LWRCL: Lightweight rcl like middleware for FastDDS
- Adaptive Robotic Tool-Tip Control Learning Considering Online Changes in Grasping State– video
- Exploration-RRT ROS Package
- Map Merge for Multi Robot Mapping in ROS 2
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