ROS News for November 5th, 2023
ROSCon 2023 Videos and Slides Now Available! Our friends at PX4 have their event recaps up as well. Meanwhile, Odense Denmark is already planning ROSCon 2024.
We’ve got a ROS Meetup Singapore at the end of the month. This event will focus on robot dev ops!
The Conference on Robot Learning was this week. The gif above is taken from HomeRobot: Open Vocabulary Mobile Manipulation which uses a HelloRobot Stretch to basic tasks around the house. I’ve included some of the open access papers I came across this week below.
Cruise is not having a good week. Last week it was made public that Cruise vehicles needed human assistance every five miles. Early this week it was published that Cruise knew their cars had problems detecting children while driving autonomously. Now Cruise and GM are recalling all their autonomous vehicles and laying off staff.
Events
- 2023-11-15 Farm Robotics Challenge Submission Deadline
- 2023-11-15 NVIDIA Isaac ROS Office Hours
- 2023-11-23 → 2023-11-24 ROSCon Germany
- 2023-11-24 ROS Meetup in Barcelona
- ROS Japan UG #53
- 2023-11-29 → 2023-11-30 ROS Industrial APAC Summit SG
- 2023-11-30 ROS Meetup Singapore – DevOps Edition
- 2023-12-14 → 2023-12-15 ROSCon India
- 2023-12-17 → Open Hardware Summit CFP Deadline
- 2024 Open Hardware Summit Montreal
News
- ROSCon 2023 Videos and Slides Now Available!
- Odense Robotics on ROSCon 2024
- PX4 Developers Summit Recap 2023
- Real-Time Motion Control in ROS with Tormach ZA6
- PX4 Dev Summit Recap
- HiFi 3D Sensor: Plug-n-Play Depth Perception & AI – Kickstarter Prelaunch
- Robotics Summit 2024 CFP
- Giant Chopstick Robot Handle Boxes With Ease (I think it runs ROS)
- Raspberry Pi-powered submarine ROV
- AI-Robot Platform for Scientific Exploration
- Autonomous electrochemistry robot
- Google DeepMind’s robotics head on general-purpose robots, generative AI and office Wi-Fi
- AI robotics’ ‘GPT moment’ is near
- Robotics funding saw another dip in 2023
- The Robots Are Still Rising, Albeit With Less Funding
- Remember: Robots are Dangerous
- Cruise / GM Recall All Cars
- Cruise Layoffs
- Cruise knew cars had problems
- Why Do Robotics Companies Fail?
- Remy Robotics opens bot-run ‘Better Days’ kitchen in NYC
- Aigen’s $12M Series A Unleashes True-Solar Agriculture Robots
Papers (Mainly CoRL, but also others)
- JavaScript Gaussian Splatting library
- An Online Self-calibrating Refractive Camera Model with Application to Underwater Odometry
- SLAP: Spatial-Language Attention Policies
- Open-Structure: a Structural Benchmark Dataset for SLAM Algorithms
- DEFT: Dexterous Fine-Tuning for Real-World Hand Policies
- HomeRobot: Open Vocabulary Mobile Manipulation
- TAPIR: Tracking Any Point with per-frame Initialization and temporal Refinement
- VR-NeRF: High-Fidelity Virtualized Walkable Spaces
- A particle-based encoding for Neural Radiance Fields
ROS
- Four wheel independent steering robot using Nav2 and ros2-control
- ROS 2 Tutorial on transformation
- Radar Messages - Call For Maintenance Help
- CoppeliaSim V4.6 Released: enhanced Python integration
- 2 New and 170 Updated Iron Packages
- rotop – Top Command for ROS 2
- BT-Studio 0.2 now Available
- Introducing launch-generator: A simplified launch description creation tool for ROS 2
- Project Completed: GoPiGo3 on Ubuntu 20.04 with ROS Noetic For Pi4
- camorph, a python toolbox for converting various camera parameter conventions
- A ROS-based solution to clear point cloud data by removing dynamic objects for mapping
- sensors_for_ros: An Android app that publishes sensor and camera data on ROS 2 topics
- Zenoh on PX4 / ROS 2 for Multicast Distributed Networking
- ROS2 package for Xiaomi Cybergear.
- Scikit-Robot – A Flexible Framework for Robot Control in Python
- A robust sensor fusion library for online localization
- Library for fast and accurate simulation of range sensors in large 3D environments using ray tracing.
- ROS 2 Autoware Tool for Map Georeferencing and OSM Fusion
Got a minute? Why not help out some other robot developers?
