ROS News for the Week of March 4th, 2024
I’ve been working with the ROS Industrial team, and the Port of San Antonio, to put together a ROS Meetup in San Antonio / Austin in conjunction with the annual ROS Industrial Consortium Meeting. If you are attending the ROS-I meeting make sure you sign up!
Gazebo Classic goes end of life in 2025! To help the community move over to modern Gazebo we’re holding open Gazebo office hours next Tuesday, March 12th, at 9am PST. If you have questions about the migration process please come by!
We often get questions about the “best” robot components for a particular application. I really hate answering these questions; my inner engineer just screams, “IT DEPENDS!” Unfortunately, w really don’t have a lot of apples-to-apples data to compare different hardware vendors.
Thankfully @iliao is putting in a ton of work to review ten different low cost LIDAR sensors. Check it out here.
This week we got a sneak peek at some of the cool CVPR 2024 papers. Check out, “Gaussian Splatting SLAM”, by Hidenobu Matsuki, Riku Murai, Paul H.J. Kelly, Andrew J. Davison, complete with source code.
We got our new ROSCon France graphic this week! ROSCon France is currently accepting papers! Please consider applying if you speak French!
Events
- 2024-03-11 ROS 2
Rust Meeting - 2024-03-12 Queer in Robotics Social @ HRI
- 2024-03-12 Gazebo Migration Office Hours
- 2024-03-14 TU Delft ROS MOOC (FREE!)
2024-03-21 ROS By-The-Bay with Dusty Robotics and Project Q&A Session- 2024-03-23 Robo Hackathon @ Circuit Launch (Bay Area)
- 2024-03-26 ROS Meetup San Antonio, Texas
- 2024-03-27 ROS Industrial Annual Meeting
- 2024-03-27 Robotics Happy Hour Pittsburgh
- 2024-04-03 ROS Meetup Barcelona
- 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
- 2024-05-13 Bots & Bento @ ICRA 2024
- 2024-05-14 → 2024-05-16 F1Tenth Autonomous Grand Prix @ CPS-IoT Week
- 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
- 2024-08-05 Autonomous Systems Bootcam at Univ. Deleware– Video
- 2024-09-25 ROSConJP
News
- Saildrone’s New Aluminum Surveyor
- Glacier Recycling Robot Raises $7.7M – Robot Report
- New CEO at Agility
- Figure raises $675M for Humanoid Robots
- RIOS Raises $13M Series B
- $578M in Raised for Robotics in January 2024
- $16 PCB Robot
Gaussian Splatting SLAM source code- Researchers develop interface for quadriplegics to control robots
- LEOD: Label-Efficient Object Detection for Event Cameras
- Taylor Alexander on Solar Powered Farming Robots
- ROSCon France Logo Drops
- SwRI Workbench for Offline Robotics Development (SWORD)
- Procedural World Generator for Farm Robots
- KISS ICP Odometry in Rust
- View-Dependent Octree-based Mesh Extraction in Unbounded Scenes for Procedural Synthetic Data
- Woodlands Dataset with Stereo and LIDAR
- Volume-DROID SLAM Source Code
- Video Friday
ROS
- ROS for Lego Mindstorms!
- 10+ Low-Cost LIDARs Compared
- Reboot Client Library Working Group?
- 13 New and 220 Updated Packages for ROS 2 Humble
- Now is a Great Time to Add Catkin Lint to Your Package
- Cobot Magic: Mobile Aloha system works on AgileX Robotics platform
- 10 New and 46 Updated Packages for ROS 1 Noetic
- 5 New and 279 Updated Packages for ROS 2 Rolling Ridley (Last 22.04 Update)
- Humanoid Working Group?
- New Agile-X LIMO
- ROS MicroPy Graphical Controller
- Simulating Noise in Depth Cameras
- What are the main challenges you faced in using ROS2 to develop industrial applications with manipulators?
- Autoware Foundation General Assembly 2023 Recordings
- F1Tenth: A Tricycle Model to Accurately Control an Autonomous Racecar with Locked Differential
- Unifying F1TENTH Autonomous Racing: Survey, Methods and Benchmarks – Benchmark Data
- RViz Plugin for Monitoring Node Life Cycles
- ROS 2 + ORB SLAM 3 Docker Container
- Kevin Wood ROS Youtube Videos
- JPL + ROS: RoadRunner - Learning Traversability Estimation for Autonomous Off-road Driving
- Nav2: Using VIO to Augment Robot Odometry
- MultiVehicle simulator (MVSim)
- Light Painting with a Drone Swarm
- ROS 2 + Isaac Sim Docker (Japanese)
- Real-Time Internet Control and Video Streaming with ROSbot 2R / 2 PRO
ROS Questions
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