ROS News for the Week of July 29th, 2024
Big news from the Space ROS team! NASA has sponsored a Space ROS Sprint challenge!. NASA plans to award US$10K in prizes for the top contributions to the Space ROS repository. You need to act quickly though, the event ends in September!
Windows 10 goes end of life in 2025, and the ROS team is reconsidering how ROS will support Windows 11. Don’t worry though, Windows support isn’t going way! If you are a ROS on Windows user your feedback is requested via this Google form.
@bperseghetti was the presenter for our July Gazebo Community Meeting and he put together a phenomenal talk on some of the features available in Gazebo Harmonic. It is worth a watch!
Our own @scastro put together a fantastic blog post on, “Advice to Young Engineers” that is worth a read! I highly recomend it as it echos the sentiments I hear expressed by many of the ROS core devs.
Events
- 2024-08-05 Autonomous Systems Bootcam 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
- NASA Sponsored Space ROS Sprint Challenge
- Advice to Young Engineers
- Autonomous vehicles fuel $2.7B funding boom in June 2024
- Carlotta Berry and Ayanna Howard in Forbes 50 over 50
- CVPR 2024: Efficient Gaussian Splatting Tutorial
- SAM 2 – Promptable Segmentation for Images and Videos
- Machine Learning Cheat Sheet
- LeRobot: End-to-end Learning for Real-World Robotics in Pytorch
- Open Hardware Modular Bearing
- IROS 2024 I2EKF-LO: A Dual-Iteration Extended Kalman Filter based LiDAR Odometry
- GNSS satellite visibility simulation from Google Earth
- SOAR: Autonomous Improvement of Instruction Following Skills via Foundation Models
- ICRA 2025 CFP
- NeRF-MAE: Masked AutoEncoders for Self-Supervised 3D Representation Learning for Neural Radiance Fields
- BYU Compliant Mechanisms Group
- The Real Reason Robots Shouldn’t Look Like Humans
- Would you let a robot give you a root canal?
- LIG Nex1 takes controlling shares of Ghost Robotics for $240M
- Cow Shot Robot
- Alphabet X spinoff partners with Arc’teryx to bring ‘everyday’ exoskeleton to market
- Video Friday
- ROS 2 Jazzy Learning Week
ROS
- Feedback Requested: ROS 2 Windows Support
- Autonomous Driving with Imitation Learning
- Service Load Balancing
- What makes a good sensor package?
- Improving ROS 2 logging with spdlog and fmt
- July Gazebo Community Meeting
- Managing End-to-End Timing Jitters in ROS2 Computation Chains
- SOTA fast and robust ground segmentation using 3D point cloud
- Scenario Execution for Robotics
- A Simulation Benchmark for Autonomous Racing with Large-Scale Human Data – Paper
- Awesome LIDAR Mapping
- LISO: Lidar-only Self-Supervised 3D Object Detection
- How to Use C++ and MoveIt 2 to Perform Robot Motion Planning
- Harvest X ROS Dot Files
- Understanding Misconfigurations in ROS: An Empairical Study and Current Approaches
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