ROS News for the Week of March 20th, 2023
ROS stole the show at this year’s ProMat conference. ProMat is quickly becoming the big AMR industry conference. Agility’s Digit, now with arms and a head, was a big hit in particular. I’ve included a summary of the ProMat news below.
Sense, Think, Act returns from Hiatus in this episode Audrow speaks with Avidbots on lessons learned from developing a floor scrubbing robot.
Check out this paper from Columbia and Toyota Research Institute: “Zero-1-to-3: Zero-shot One Image to 3D Object”. Can someone make a Gazebo plugin for this?
This week we learned that the PX4 Developer Summit will be in New Orleans immediately after ROSCon.
Join us next Wednesday, 2023-03-29, for our Gazebo Community Meeting. The Ekumen team will be telling us all about how to use Maliput to simulate road networks. We’re also looking for lightning talks.
If you are in the Bay Area, next Thursday, 2023-03-30, we’re rebooting ROS By-The-Bay reboot at the Intrinsic offices. We’ve got a great set of speakers lined up.
Events
- 2023-03-27 Berlin Autonomous Driving Meetup
- 2023-03-28 Formant Robotic Farming Webinar
- 2023-03-29 Gazebo Community Meeting – Maliput for Road Simulation
- 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
- 2023-04-13 → 2023-04-14 ROS Workshop in Argentina
- 2023-04-28 Open Hardware Summit
- 2023-04-28 ROS Meetup Delhi
- 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
- 2023-10-21 → 2023->10-22 PX4 Developer Summit New Orleans
News
- Discover the Future of Facility Maintenance with Avidbots’ Autonomous Floor Scrubbing Robot
- Advance Construction Robotics Launches Rebar Robot
- Farm-NG ROS Support –Source Code
- MoveIt Google Summer of Code 2023
- Intrinsic CEO to keynote Robotics Summit
- An AV crash course with Johannes Betz Technical University of Munich
- RPI ROS-I Training Event
- Nvidia GTC Highlights The Physical Side Of AI - Robotics
- Mark Rober Visits Zipline Drone Delivery
- AUTONOMOUS UNIMOG!
- EPFL CREATE Lab – soft-rigid anthropomorphic hand with tunable compliance and ROS 2
- Clearpath Robotics announces Husky Observer
- Video Friday
- Pan-African Robotics Challenge Applications Open
- How to become a robotics software engineer
- RoboCup 2023 in Bordeaux: “During the competition, we push the robots to their limits” (French)
- Univ Bonn Aims to Enhance Healthcare
ProMat
- Editor’s Picks: best robots of ProMat 2023
- Meet the new face of Agility Robotics’ Digit
- Pickle launches its truck unloading robot arm
- Locus Robotics introduces LocusONE multi-bot warehouse management
- Agility’s Latest Robot Prepares for Work
- OTTO Motors launches OTTO 600 and improved software
- Slip Robotics launches new trailer pallet unloading solution
- Next-gen Digit humanoid wants to automate logistics tasks
Papers
- Zero-1-to-3: Zero-shot One Image to 3D Object
- Long-Term Indoor Localization with Metric-Semantic Mapping using a Floor Plan Prior
- Visual language maps for robot navigation
- NeRF-LOAM: Neural Implicit Representation for Large-Scale Incremental LiDAR Odometry and Mapping
- Fast Autonomous Exploration for Large-scale environment
- PolyVerif: An Open-Source Environment for Autonomous Vehicle Validation and Verification
ROS
- NEATO ROS Driver
- Sense, Think, Act – Avidbots on Lessons from a Floor Scrubbing Robot
- Call for Speakers – ROS Developers Day
- Zenoh / RMW Performance Evaluation
- ROS 2 IDL Support in Foxglove
- 59 New and 353 Updated Packages for Foxy
- Unified Planning Framework for ROS 2
- Tutorial: Calculate the Position of a Detected Object
- Line Following Gazebo Sim – Source
- Behavior Tree 4.1 Released
- Introducción a la Programación de Robots con ROS 2
- ROS + ChatGPT (French)
- Join the ROSCon JP Slack