ROS News for the Week of November 4th, 2024
ROSCon 2024 is in the bag and most of the team is finally home! The videos should be up on the web soon (please don’t ask when, they’ll be up as soon as we can get them edited and uploaded).
In the meantime there are some great resources that came out of the event. Sebastian Castro put together a fantastic summary of the event. You can also check out @mjcarroll and @jennuine’s
r2s: Text User Interface (TUI) for ROS 2, this Zenoh + ROS 2 ROSCon Workshop, this demystifying ROS 2 networking workshop, and my intro to ROS 2 workshop
@Anis_Koubaa has put together a comprehensive survey on ROS 2.. They survey includes an amazing webpage that allows you to search through ROS papers that is worth bookmarking.
ROS By-The-Bay with Red Rabbit Robotics and @methyldragon is scheduled for next Thursday, November 14th in Mountain View. There are maybe ten RSVPs left.
Our friends at ROS Industrial had their annual European and Asian consortium meetings over the past two weeks. One of the big take aways is the new Mitsubishi MELFA ROS 2 driver. You can check out the source code here.
Space ROS Humble 2024.10.0 has been released!. I suggest you take a look at the Space ROS Demo repository’s pull requests. There is some really cool stuff in there!
Along those lines, check out ROSA being demonstrated for Neil deGrasse Tyson at JPL.
Events
- 2024-11-11 Arab ROS Meetup Workshop 4
- 2024-11-11 CFP for International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering
- 2024-11-11
ROS 2 Rust November Meeting - 2024-11-12 Embodied AI Community Group
- 2024-11-14 ROS By-The-Bay wsg Red Rabbit Robotic and @methyldragon
- CoRL Workshop on Lifelong Learning in Home Robotics
- 2024-11-22 F1Tenth Learning to Trust Autonomy Workshop at BU
- 2024-12-03 ROSCon Germany
- 2024-12-05 ROSCon India
- 2024-12-07 → 2024-12-08 ROSCon China in Shenzhen
- 2024-12-11 =>2024-12-12 Humanoids Summit Bay Area
- 2024-12-16 => 2024-12-19 F1Tenth Sim Racing League at CDC 2024
- 2024-12-22 Open Hardware Summit CFP Deadline
- 2024-12-31 Deadline for Natural Robotics Contest
- 2025-02-01 FOSDEM 25 – See Robotics and Sim Room
- 2025-04-28 International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering
- 2025-05-30 => 2025-05-31 2025 Open Hardware Summit in Edinburgh
News
- Ag Robotics Hackathon at FIRA 2025
- Highlights from ROSCon 2024
- Open Hardware Summit 2025 CFP
- Free Clearpath Robots for Startups and Labs
- A comprehensive list of Implicit Representations and NeRF papers relating to Robotics/RL domain
- Autonomous Cars Race On The Las Vegas Speedway At CES 2025
- Disarmament in Times of War: Interview with Ryan Gariepy
- ROSCon India CFP Extended
- A first look at supporting ROS within the Intrinsic platform
- ROSA demonstrated for Neil deGrasse Tyson at JPL.
- Ulysses is using robots to restore seagrass populations
- More Layoffs at iRobot
- Cynlr Raises $10M Series A
- Pipedream Labs deploys underground robotic delivery system in Texas drive thru
- Robotics investments top $3.7B in September
- Third Wave Automation picks up $27M Series C
- Agtonomy adds $10M to Series A round
- Relay Robotics proposes levels of autonomous navigation for indoor robots
- FarmDroid obtains over $11M to deploy its modular robot globally
- Outrider brings in $62M to drive commercial scaling in 2025
- Carbon Robotics brings in $70M to scale LaserWeeder
- Life-seeking, ice-melting robots could punch through Europa’s icy shell
- Video Friday
ROS
- Black Coffee Robotics Bot – Now with Isaac Sim
- Comprehensive Survey on ROS 2
- Space ROS Humble Release 2024.10.0
- r2s: Text User Interface (TUI) for interacting with various aspects of a ROS 2 system
- ROSCon 2024 Workshop: Zenoh + ROS 2
- ROSCon 2024 Workshop: Demystifying ROS 2 Networking
- ROSCon 2024 Workshop: Intro to ROS 2
- ROS 2 PMC Meeting Minutes 2024-11-05
- AMR / AGV ROS 2 Framework from Sony
- Introducing FIREBRINGER - A generalised autonomous navigation algorithm
- ROS 2 Jazzy and Rolling on Kobuki Robot
- Iron End-of-Life Plan
- 4 New and 74 Updated Packages for Iron
- 3 New and and 48 updated Packages for Noetic
- 9 New and 140 Updated Packages for Humble Hawksbill
- ROS 2 Pick and Place System with Edge Impulse
- ROS 1 EOL Migration Sprint
- October Maritime Community Group Meeting
- NASA JPL Robust High-Speed State Estimation for Off-road Navigation using Radar Velocity Factor – Video – Related Paper
- DM-VIO: Delayed Marginalization Visual-Inertial Odometry–Source code
- Arduino Opta PLC supports OPC UA
- RoboCasa: Large-Scale Simulation of Everyday Tasks for Generalist Robots
- ROS2 package designed to extrinsically calibrate a set of cameras distributed throughout a room.
- RVIZ Visuals Tutorial
- Misubishi MELFA ROS 2 Driver Demo from ROS Industrial - Code
- How to control a robot from ros2_control to make Unity easier to use.
- Articulate Robotics with Muhammad Luqman
- TurtleSim using Pixi
Got a minute? 
We desperately need more contributors to the ROS Documentation. If you learned something new this week why not share it with the community?
