ROS News for the Week of July 8th, 2024
The full ROSCon talk schedule has been published!
We also just announced that we’ll be offering tours of the Teradyne / Universal Robotics / MiR offices during ROSCon.
It seems like everyone is building open-hardware robot arms right now!
There’s the MikataArm (above), a new open source arm from Source Robotics, and I recently came across this open source hardware gripper. Some of these projects already have downstream users like this imitation learning project that uses and open-hardware arm and an iPhone.
Why build just an arm when you can build a whole humanoid? Personally, I’m a big fan of the work of @lethic1 on Twitter and their new Red Rabbit Robotics project
Check out this fantastic thread of student summer thesis projects using ROS. If you know a student please encourage them to contribute!
The team over at the Intelligent Robotics Lab at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
have released a ROS 2 Humble package for the Unitree Go 2 Quadruped.
Events
- 2024-07-18 ROS Netherlands Meetup
- 2024-07-18 Autonomous Driving Meetup Berlin
- 2024-07-24 ROS Meetup in Austin Texas
- 2024-07-29 => 2024-08-02 IEEE RAS Multi-Robot Summer School Prague
- 2024-08-05 Autonomous Systems Bootcam at Univ. Deleware– Video
- 2024-08-16 => 2024-08-17 Ubucon Latin America
- 2024-09-07 Silicon Valley Robotics Robot Block Partyq`
- 2024-09-18 Foxglove Actuate San Francisco
- 2024-09-19 ==> 2024-09-20 ROSCon Spain
- 2024-09-25 ROSConJP
- 2024-10-22 → 2024-10-24 AgRobot FIRA in Sacramento
- 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
- Bosch Joins OSRA
- Open-RMF Project Management Committee Launch
- ROS Summer Student Projects
- Jacobi Robotics Raises $5M – Robot Report
- Exein raises $15M Series B
- Skild AI grabs $300M to build foundation model for robotics
- 3Farmate Robotics Secures $100,000 from 776 Fellowship Led by Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian
- PhyRC challenge, a competition to facilitate innovation in physical robotic caregiving
- Towards Autonomous Driving with Small-Scale Cars: A Survey of Recent Development
- Hierarchical Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Graphs for Language-Grounded Robot Navigation
OpenCV CVPR 2024 Recap- June Open Hardware Certifications
- MikataArm 6DOF+Gripper Open Hardware Arm
- Source Robotics Open Arm
- Open Source Hardware Gripper
- Chef Robotics on Audrow Nash Podcast
- MimicGen: A Data Generation System for Scalable Robot Learning using Human Demonstrations
- Imitation Learning with an iPhone and a Low Cost Arm
- Heterogeneous Robot Teams with Unified Perception and Autonomy: How Team CSIRO Data61 Tied for the Top Score at the DARPA Subterranean Challenge
- Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models
- HEMM: Holistic Evaluation of Multimodal Foundation Models
- A model predictive controller for quadruped robots based on the single rigid body model and written in python
- VOOM: Robust Visual Object Odometry and Mapping using Hierarchical Landmarks
- Linear Algebra for Computer Vision, Robotics, and Machine Learning
- SonicSense: Object Perception through Sound
- MVSGaussian: Fast Generalizable Gaussian Splatting Reconstruction from Multi-View Stereo
- Watch a robot navigate the Google DeepMind offices using Gemini
- Amazon retires its Astro
- MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are vastly overestimating generative AI
- A look inside Chef Robotics – MIT Tech Review – IEEE Spectrun
- Fanuc’s New Facility in Michigan
- Canvas has a new Drywall Robot
- Video Friday
ROS
- MoveIt for Jazzy
- Announcing ros-tool: The easiest way to create web UIs for ROS
- Message Take Without Callbacks Tutorial
- ACDC4Robot: A Tool for Robot Descriptions
- 0 New and 39 Updated Packages for Noetic
- 123 New and 440 Updated Packages for Jazzy
- 41 New and 176 Updated Packages for Humble
- 2 New and 72 Updated Packages for Iron Irwini
- Rust Industrial
- ROS 2 Package for Unitree Go 2 Quadruped
- Mobile Manipulators from AgileX
- Foxglove ROSBoard Integration
- New RViz Panel for Nav2 Docking
- Magically Deserialize any ROS Message!
- Laser Scan to Point Cloud Package
- BADOSE Marine Simulation Environment – Video
- RRT Exploration ROS Package – Paper
- Creating a ROS 2 Node for Monocular Depth Estimation Using PyTorch
- Open-RMF Reservations in Rust
- How Do Robot Manipulators Move
- Advanced implementation of the original LOAM (Lidar Odometry and Mapping)
- FRAME: Fast and Robust Autonomous 3D Point Cloud Map-Merging for Egocentric Multi-Robot Exploration
- Getting Started with ROS 2: Create and Set Up a Workspace
- Open-RMF Lift and Door Adapter
- Human Pose Estimation with PyTorch and ROS2: A Complete Guide
- ROS-LLM: A ROS framework for embodied AI with task feedback and structured reasoning – Source
- ROS 2 PID AutoTuning
- ROS2 / FAST_LIO / PGO / Online Re-Localization
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