ROS News for the Week of March 13th, 2023

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ROS News for the Week of March 13th, 2023

This week we launched our official Open Robotics Discord Server

Pack it up, computer vision for robotics is solved – check out Language Embedded Radiance Fields from UC Berkeley

Atahan Çaldır on Twitter pointed out that ROS got a shout out in the comic book, “Robots and Drones: Past, Present, and Future” – buy here

It was the European Robotics Forum this week. Your community representative @fmrico did a good job covering it.

Events

• Introducción a la Programación de Robots con ROS 2
• 2023-03-21 First Aerial Robotics Working Group Meeting
• 2023-03-22 DDS Foundation Forum
• 2023-03-22 Design a Complex Architecture on NVIDIA Issac ROS
• 2023-03-23 Barcelona Robotics, ML, CV Meetup
• 2023-03-27 Berlin Autonomous Driving Meetup
• 2023-03-28 Formant Robotic Farming Webinar
• 2023-03-30 ROS By-The-Bay Reboot at Intrinsic Offices
• 2023-03-30 ROS K8s Deployment Tutorial
• 2023-03-30 Berlin Robotics Meetup
• 2023-04-08 Robot Block Party
• 2023-04-28 Open Hardware Summit
• 2023-05-01 AI / Robotics Venture Fair at CMU
• 2023-05-10 Robotics Summit with our Dr. Grey
• 2023-05-23 Automate Startup Challenge
• 2023-06-02 ICRA Robot Wrestling Competition – More Info
• 2023-07-04 → 2023-07-05 ROScon France in Bordeaux –in conjunction with RoboCup
• 2023-07-09 ROSCon Submission Deadline
• 2023-09-26 ROSCon JP
• 2023-10-18 → 2023->10-20 ROSCon 2023 New Orleans

News

• ROS in a Comic Book – buy here
• Language Embedded Radiance Fields – pack it up, computer vision is solved
• Robots at European Robotics Forum
• Big Zipline Product Launch
• Mistaking Performance for Competence – SVB fallout, hardworking drones and a fresh dose of technorealism from Rodney Brooks
• Nimble Robotics Raises $65M
• Infineon, Apex.AI help usher in software-defined vehicle age
• Hilti and Canvas Announce Strategic Partnership – Video of Canvas Robotics Drywall Robot
• Advanced Construction Robotics Launches Rebar Installing Robot
• Camilo Buscaron of AWS Robotics on Behind The Tech
• May Mobility Goes Global with New Partnership – More on Forbes
• People Love Trash Robots
• EU Hosting for Foxglove Data
• BLACK MAGIC – Triple Inverted Pendulum
• LexxPluss Expands into the US
• Open 3D Engine Sees Momentum Across Robotics Industry
• Clearpath Launches Husky Observer
• Deep Learning for Production Robotics
• 4 Challenges in Robotics Product Development
• MIT New Modular Lunar Robot Has Worms for Arms, Runs ROS
• Full set of design files released for PR2 robot
• Polymath Robotics and Hard-Line unveil autonomous bulldozer for construction industry
• Articulated Robotics – You MADE THESE?!

ROS

• ROS MOOC from TUDelft
• 19 New and 556 Updated Packages for Rolling
• Compilation Bloat Issues
• Yet Another State Machine (YASMIN)
• Announcing: Official Open Robotics Discord Server
• 30 New and 112 Updated Packages for Humble
• ROS Bangalore Meetup Debrief
• micro-ROS Talk at European Robotics Forum
• Intro to Laser Scanners with ROS 2
• Best new name: ROS SIMP – Long-Term Indoor Localization with Metric-Semantic Mapping using a Floor Plan Prior
• Updated Guidance on ROS / Gazebo Integration

ROS Questions

• Conditional Emptying of Log Files Without Deletion
• Custom hardware board for four wheel steering robot?
• Correct process to distribute ROS projects as containers?