ROS News for the Week of November 27th, 2023

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ROS News for the Week of November 27th, 2023


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These past two weeks we had two ROS Meetups in Europe (Netherlands and Barcelona), one in Singapore, and a sold out ROSCon in Germany!

Our first ever ROSCon India is just two weeks away! I am informed it is already sold out!

If you want hold a ROSCon in your city or country just reach out to us at the email address community [at] openrobotics.org and we can help make it happen (we’re looking at you, South America, Australia, and Africa)!


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This Tuesday was what we in the states calls “Giving Tuesday,” the day after “Black Friday,” “Small Business Saturday,” and “Cyber Monday.” If you would like to make a donation to the Open Source Robotics Foundation there is a form available here.


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I came across this fantastic resource this week, “The Connector Book” by Davide Andrea. If you have ever struggled to pick a connector for your robot, or identify a connector for your robot this is the resource for you. The book also has a web form that lets you search for a particular connector or pick the best connector for an application.


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This week I came across this Unreal 5 plugin that lets you import a Gaussian Splat. Not to be outdone the fine folks at Spectacular.AI demonstrated a NeRF generator for the OAK-D depth sensor.

I’ve been saying for awhile that all I want is an open source ROS 2 package that generates NeRFs / Gaussian splats and a Gazebo pipeline that allows you to import the resulting NeRF/Splat. I want to drive a robot around a room with ROS, generate a NeRF / Splat, and then simulate the robot inside of the NeRF/Splat using Gazebo. This is the killer app and all I want for Christmas :gift:. Unfortunately I do not have time to make it happen, but I will shower you with ROS swag if you make this happen :wink:.

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