ROS News for the Week of March 25th, 2024
I spent the week down at South West Research Institute visiting our colleagues over at ROS Industrial for their annual meeting. Make no mistake, ROS-Industrial is where the ROS rubber meets the road, and they always have the best demonstrations! ROS Industrial also provides ROS training sessions that technical support for our industrial users. I’m always super impressed by the work done by the ROS-I consortium members. If you’ve never been to a ROS-I meeting or training session I would recommend taking the time to check them out.
They might also make some fantastic country music. 
We’ve been getting a lot of fantastic community contributions to docs.ros.org and ROSDoc2 lately. I want to point out a fantastic set of contributions from @rkent this week. These changes significantly improved ROSDoc2 and have enabled message, service, and action rendering in docs.ros.org (image above). We really appreciate the help @rkent!
Along those lines, part of my talk at ROS Industrial (Copy of ROSIndustrial-2024.pdf (2.1 MB)) was on what we’re planning to do with the ROS Wiki after ROS 1 goes end of life. We really need to start working to move wiki content over to docs.ros.org.
I came across this very impressive demo from Alex Koch the other day that uses open hardware arms that can be built for just $250.
This week our friends over at Pollen Robotics released their Pollen Vision Library for their Reachy robot. Their vision stack includes OWL-VIT (open world localization), Mobile-SAM (object segmentation), and RAM (Recognize Anything Model). You can read all about it on Hugging Face.
Events
- ONGOING: TU Delft ROS MOOC (FREE!)
- 2024-04-03 ROS Meetup Barcelona
- 2024-04-04 Interoperability SIG Meeting
- 2024-04-06 Silicon Valley Robotics Robot Block Party
- 2024-04-16 → 2024-04-18 Zephyr Developer Summit
- 2024-04-21 Robots on Ice
- 2024-05-03 Open Hardware Summit Montreal
- 2024-05-07 ROSCon Workshop CFP Closes
- 2024-05-13 Bots & Bento @ ICRA 2024
- 2024-05-14 → 2024-05-16 F1Tenth Autonomous Grand Prix @ CPS-IoT Week
- 2024-05-21 ROS Japan Users Group
- 2025-06-03 ROSCon Talk CFP Closes
- 2024-06-04 → 2024-06-08 ACM SIGSOFT Summer School on Software Engineering for Robotics
- 2024-06-?? Workshop on Agriculture Vision at CVPR 2024
- 2024-06-16 Food Topping Challenge at ICRA 2024
- 2024-06-19 => 2024-06-20 ROSCon France
- 2024-07-29 => 2024-08-02 IEEE RAS Multi-Robot Summer School Prague
- 2024-08-05 Autonomous Systems Bootcam at Univ. Deleware– Video
- 2024-09-25 ROSConJP
- 2024-10-22 → 2024-10-24 AgRobot FIRA in Sacramento
News
- The Robot Report on OSRA Launch
- Announcing the Open Source Robotics Alliance
Low Cost Robot Arm – NICE DEMO!- Prusa MK3S to 4-Axis Printer Conversion with FullControl.xyz
- RGBD GS-ICP SLAM
- Efficient LoFTR: Semi-Dense Local Feature Matching with Sparse-Like Speed
- Video Friday
- Orchard vision system turns farm equipment into AI-powered data collectors
- Viam Raises $45M Series B – Viam looks beyond robotics with its automation platform
- Mobile Exploration Robot with Auxiliary Drone
- Large language models can help home robots recover from errors without human help
- Favorite ROS Artwork?
- Ergodic Control Tutorial at ICRA 2024
- Saltbot: Keeping your Sidewalks Ice Free
- roboticscareer.org – Manufacturing Jobs with Robotics – More at Robot Report
ROS
- D* (D-Star) Trajectory Planner package - Initial Code Release
- Gazebo Community Meeting – Ji Zhang LIDAR SLAM expert at CMU
- ROSDoc2 Undergoing Significant Improvements
- ROSCon DE 2024 Videos
- UPDATED: 10+ Low-Cost LIDARS Tested
- ROS 2 COCO Object Detector
- ROS 2 Docker Dev Container Example
- Heads Up: Jazzy RMW Feature Freeze on 2024-04-08
- PSA: Rolling CI or Docker Build Fix from Rosdep Errors in 24.04 Transition
- ROS 2 / DDS flying in Cloud with Cilium / Kubernetes
- ROS Edge-Native Initiative
- Aerial Robotics Meeting for March Video
- LIMO ROS2 Robot Meet The Construct
- What 3D Cameras are you using with ROS 2?
- MQTT to Gazebo Connection for Drones
- MRNaB: Mixed Reality-Based Robot Navigation Interface Using Optical-See-Through MR-Beacon
- Fundamentals of Robotics Course
- Lunar Arm: Kinematic Control, Design, and Analysis
- Pollen-Vision: Unified interface for Zero-Shot vision models in robotics
- 4 New and 55 updated Packages for ROS Noetic
- 50 New and 105 Updated Packages for ROS Humble
- 8 New and 74 Updated Packages for ROS Iron
- Interesting Ways to Use ROS 2 and Docker
- Publish iPad Pro LiDAR data & more in ROS 2
- Isaac Sim ROS 2 Control Sample
- Exploring microROS: An Introduction and Setup Guide for Agents
Got a minute?
Why don’t you try migrating some ROS Wiki content to docs.ros.org?