ROS News for the Week of October 10th, 2022
ROSCon 2022 is in Kyoto next week and we’re officially sold out! You can watch the livestream next week if you are unable to attend. If you are attending start planning your lightning talks and birds of a feather sessions.
Foxglove had quite a week! They raised $15M! (official announcement), released the MCAP Storage Plugin for ROS 2, launched a new Foxglove podcast, and released a sleek new 3D panel for studio! Congratulations @amacneil and team!
Open-RMF had quite the week too! We announced Open Robotics collaboration with NCS to bring security robots and a whole lot of features to Open-RMF. More coverage in The Robot Report and on NCS’s Medium Blog. Formant has also been keen to demonstrate Open-RMF’s capabilities. If you want to get started with Open-RMF check out this collection of awesome Open-RMF adapters.
Editor’s Note
I’ll be helping to run ROSCon next week and then attending IROS the following week (find me at the Clearpath Robotics booth, we’ll have TurtleBot4s and stickers!). If you would like to meetup at ROSCon or IROS please send me a message. I’ll be trying to cover the events as best as I can while I am away. After IROS and ROSCon I am taking a much needed week of vacation. There may or may not be weekly updates these weeks, and response times may be a bit slower than usual.
Events
- 10/17/2022 Intro to ROS 2 and the Create 3 Course
- 10/18/2022 ROS-I Training in Boston
- 10/19/2022 Robotics Startup Bootcamp
- 10/19/2022 Ag Robotics Conference
- 10/19/2022 → 10/21/2022 ROSCon – Registration Open
- 10/20/2022 ROS Meetuy Zurich
- 11/9/2022 → 11/10/2022 ROS-I Asia Pacific Workshop
- 11/12/2022 Px4 X ROS Workshop in Spainish
News
- Open-RMF Capabilities Extended in Collaboration with NCS
- Robot Report: NCS Robotics adding security robot capabilities to Open-RMF
- Why Modern Warehouses Need Vendor-Agnostic Robot Fleet Management
- 50 Women in Robotics You Need to Know in 2022
- MCAP Storage Plugin for ROS 2
- Foxglove Raises $15M! – More
- New Foxglove Podcast
- Foxglove Studio’s New 3D Panel
- TurtleBot 5 Released
- UK has a new “Robotarium”
- FedEx Shuts Down Roxo, Amazon Scales Back Scout
- Amazon Robotics Reorg – Canvas, which it bought for over $100 million, is the latest casualty.
- GNM: A General Navigation Model to Drive Any Robot
- MiniPupper 2.0!
- The AIs are here: Robodogs, Amazon’s Astro & more. Attachment issues!
- Self-supervised Geometric Correspondence for Category-level 6D Object Pose Estimation in the Wild
- TartanCalib: Iterative Wide-Angle Lens Calibration using Adaptive SubPixel Refinement of AprilTags
- In-Hand Object Rotation via Rapid Motor Adaptation
- CLIP-Fields: Weakly Supervised Semantic Fields for Robotic Memory
- DeepMind: Measuring perception in AI models
- How John Deere plans to build a world of fully autonomous farming by 2030
- OPT-Mimic: Imitation of Optimized Trajectories for Dynamic Quadruped Behaviors
- From OpenCV Competition to Intel w/ Paula Ramos - OpenCV Weekly 77
ROS
- Articulated Robotics: Using ROS 2 control to drive our robot (good)
- Success: ROS2 Humble Hawksbill GoPiGo3 Robot in 1 hour
- Interest for a ROS2 Study and Robotics Concepts group (free)
- ROS 2: Link Gazebo and Moveit with gazebo_ros2_control
- 2022 Hardware Acceleration Report in Robotics
- MySCARABot - A ROS2 enabled SCARA robot for learning
- AWSIM scene simulator for Autoware.
- C++ API wrapper for displaying shapes and meshes in Rviz
- ROS 2 on RHEL
- ROS Bridge Rust Lib
- Awesome Open-RMF Adapters
- ROS 2: Move a robot with the Move Group C++ Interface
- Walking Pattern Generator using ROS 2 for Humanoid Robots
- Configure GPS based navigation in Gazebo
- TurtleBot3 Manipulation now supports ROS2 Foxy!
- Proposed changes to how ROS performs discovery of nodes
- A ROS 2 client library for the Rockstar programming language
- REP-2014 RFC - Benchmarking performance in ROS 2
- New Packages for Noetic 2022-10-12
- Tuna USV Project
- ROSCon 2022 ROS 2 Panel
- ROSCon 2022 Lightning Talks and Birds of a Feather Sessions
- Can One Person Make Two Powerful Tools for the Robotics Community? | Sense Think Act Podcast