ROS News for the Week of May 6th, 2024
We released the ROS 2 Jazzy Jalisco distro illustration this week and it is a banger!
The ROS 2 Jazzy Jalisco Swag Store is now open at spring.ros.org. You can buy swag or earn it at our Test and Tutorial Party
It is conference season. Next week we have ICRA and PyCon on deck! I hear @gbiggs is going to swing by ICRA. I’ll be at PyCon in Pittsburgh all week. If you are in the area drop by our ROS meetup at Gecko Robotics. If you live in the area please help us spread the word.
I was at Automate in Chicago this week with lots of other ROS users. We held a fantastic ROS meetup on Wednesday where I got to see of familiar faces from the ROS community (and quite a few new ones). I talked to at least four dozen companies presently using ROS for Industrial applications. If I missed you please feel free to reach out!
Events
- 2024-05-11 Arabian ROS Meetup
- 2024-05-13 Bots & Bento @ ICRA 2024
- 2024-05-13 MAD-GAMEs (F1Tenth) at ICRA 2024
- 2024-05-14 → 2024-05-16 F1Tenth Autonomous Grand Prix @ CPS-IoT Week
- 2024-05-14 Boulder Startup Week: The Future of Robotics
- 2024-05-16 ROS Meetup Pittsburgh @ Gecko Robotics
- 2024-05-17 FogROS2 ICRA Workshop @ ICRA 2024
- 2024-05-17 Open-RMF Workshop @ ICRA 2024
- 2024-05-21 ROS Japan Users Group
- 2024-05-25 ROS Meetup Lagos
- 2024-06-03 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
- 2024-06-25 Hamlyn Symposium on Open-Source Software for Surgical Technology
- 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
- 2024-09-18 Foxglove Actuate San Francisco
- 2024-09-25 ROSConJP
- 2024-10-22 → 2024-10-24 AgRobot FIRA in Sacramento
- 2024-10-23 → 2024-10-25 16th International Conference on Social Robotics +AI
News
- SwRI releases CAD-based toolkit for robotics development
- IEEE RAS SPARX Mentee Program, Exchange, Scholar-at-Risk
- iRobot’s new CEO on cleanup duty after Amazon deal fails – TechCrunch
- Wayve Raises $1B for Autonomous Driving
- Carbon Robotics Raises Undisclosed Round
- Intrinsic uses NVIDIA foundation models to improve robotic grasping – TechCrunch – NVIDIA Press Release
- Lucid raises $9M to clean windows and more
- New Shadow Hand Can Take a Beating
- Amazon Astro Teardown
ROS
- ROS Jazzy Art and Swag Sale
- Introducing HelMoRo: An Open Source Mobile Robot Equipped with Lidar and Depth Camera
- New Nav2 Website
- Guidelines for Testing ROS-based Robots in the Real-World
- Visual Odometry in ROS2 with BotBox - ROS Developers OpenClass #189
- Space ROS Humble 2024.4.0 Release
- Gazebo Community Meeting: “Scenic: A Language for World Modeling and Data Generation for Robotics”
- Hand Gesture Control of a Robot
- Evaluating and deploying ROS 2 nodes for real-time AI computer vision with Kenning
- ROS 2 node for open-vocabulary object detection using NanoOWL
- Schunk Gripper ROS Interface
- Connecting a 6DoF Robot Arm by HiWonder to ROS 2
- Pointcloud compression: crowd sourcing benchmark
- OSRF policy on GitHub organisation naming
- Babel Fish and QML ROS 2 Plugin to quickly develop great-looking intuitive Robot UIs
- PCL Type Adapter
- ROS Embedded Working Group Meeting
- 3D LiDAR Mapping in Dynamic Environments using a 4D Implicit Neural Representation (CVPR 2024)
Got some free time?
Why not write a new tutorial for ROS 2 Jazzy Jalisco?