ROS News for the Week of March 6th, 2023
As promised at ROSCon 2022, Clearpath Robotics has open sourced all of the design files for the PR2 robot.
It has been a rough week for robotics startups. There was a run on the largest bank in Silicon Valley, and many robotics startups are laying off workers or shutting down. Despite all of this, there is some good news out there! Our friends at Plus One Robotics just raised a $50M Series C from ScaleVC. More coverage on TechCrunch
I am happy to announce that we’re rebooting ROS By-the-Bay, our Bay Area ROS meetup. Please join us on 2023-03-30
Here is your ROS 2 meme of the week. The memes will continue until the spacing improves. 
Events
- 2023-03-13 Odense Robot & Drone Ecosystem Meetup
- 2023-03-?? Bangalore ROS Meetup
- 2023-03-21 First Aerial Robotics Working Group Meeting
- 2023-03-22 DDS Foundation Forum
- 2023-03-28 Formant Robotic Farming Webinar
- 2023-03-30 ROS By-The-Bay Reboot at Intrinsic Offices
- 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
- Clearpath Robotics Open Sources PR2 Design Files
- Plus One Robotics Raises $50M Series C from ScaleVC – Techcrunch
- A run on Silicon Valley Bank
- 45 Robotics Companies That Are Hiring Right Now
- Layoffs at Embark, Waymo
- Raspberry Pi Global Shutter Camera
- Diffusion Policy: Visuomotor Policy Learning via Action Diffusion
- Skill-based robot control platform for ROS V2.0
- Head Worn Assistive Teleoperation of Mobile Manipulators
- Perception Industry Map
- Metric depth estimation from a single image
- Robot Centipede – Like Human Centipede but 3D Printed
- Cyclone DDS Origin Story
- ZoeDepth: Zero-shot Transfer by Combining Relative and Metric Depth Demo
- AVIA creates AV-centered policy recommendations for USDOT
- Project OpenDR and the future of human-robot interaction
ROS
- ROS Kubernetes Examples
- CFP: 2nd Behavior Tree Workshop
- GStreamer Image Topic Conversion
- Sampling IMU Data
- TF2 Web Publisher
- New Visualization Toolkit
- Make Your Python Documentation Shine
- Localization Support for Foxglove
- BOSCH ROS License Linter
- Nav 2 in ROS 2 with Commander API for Python
- TurtleBot4 ROS 2 Humble Support
- ROS 1 / ROS 2 Multi Vehicle Simulator
- ChatGPT / ROS – It was only a matter of time
- Fast Laser Odom with new feature extract, truncated least squares and map manager
- A novel distributed architecture for unmanned aircraft systems based on Robot Operating System 2
- Automationware ROS driver supporting AwJoints and AwTube
