ROS News for the Week of October 14th, 2024

Katherine_Scott · 2024-10-17T22:10:52.969Z

ROS News for the Week of October 14th, 2024

ROSCon is next week! There will be a free live stream that should go live Tuesday morning CEST. If you are attending event all of the local action and planning is on WhoVa, our surprisingly good event app.

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I’ve talked @methylDragon and @Lethic_Z of Red Rabbit Robotics fame into being our guest speakers at ROS By-The-Bay next month. Please consider this event our local ROSCon after party.

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I am happy to report that the OSRA picked up another gold sponsor this week! AMD has joined the Alliance as a Gold Member on top of already sponsoring ROSCon and the ROSCon 2024 Live Stream.

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TurtleBot4 Now Supports Jazzy Jalisco! Binaries should drop today or tomorrow.

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This week the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society announced a new journal, “IEEE Robotics and Automation Practice (RA-P).” This new journal is specifically focused on publish results from real robots deployed out in the field.

Our Spanish colleagues @ahcorde @jrivero @caguero along with @bsb808 have launched a new ROS company this week, Honu Robotics.. If you are looking some help from ROS / Gazebo core devs you might want to check them out.

Editor’s Note: I am posting this week’s news a bit early as I have a flight to Denmark to catch. Depending on how that week goes there may not be a news post on October 25th. I am going on an actual vacation the week after ROSCon and there will not be a news post on November 1st. Rest assured there will be a mega news post the following week!

Events

2024-10-21 → 2024-10-24 ROSCon 2024 in Odense, Denmark
2024-10-21 ROSCon 2024 Odense Aerial Robotics Meetup
2024-10-21 MoveIt Pro Happy Hour at ROSCon 2024 (Denmark)
2024-10-22 → 2024-10-24 AgRobot FIRA in Sacramento
2024-10-24 → 2024-10-25 ROS Industrial Conference EU in Odense
2024-10-23 → 2024-10-25 16th International Conference on Social Robotics +AI
2024-10-23 Berlin Robotics Meetup
2024-10-29 Maritime Community Group Meeting
2024-11-02 → 2024-11-03 ROSCon China in Shenzhen
2024-11-6 Conference on Robot Learning
2024-11-6 → 2024-11-7 ROS-Industrial APAC Summit – More
2024-11-11 CFP for International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering
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
2024-12-11 =>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
2025-04-28 International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering
2025-05-30 => 2025-05-31 2025 Open Hardware Summit in Edinburgh

News

New ROS Friendly IEEE RAS Publication
Honu Robotics – A new company fom ROS / Gazebo Core Devs
Olive Robotics Raises $1M Seed Round
TRI and Boston Dynamics Team Up – IEEE Spectrum
Tesla Optimus bots were controlled by humans during the ‘We, Robot’ event
Is anyone aware of ROS projects in laboratory automation?
Mistubishi MELFA ROS 2 Package
OSHWA T-Shirt Sale
UMI Data – Distributed Data Collection
2024 Blender User Survey
ROSA Demo at JPL
Meet the UVA Indy Autonomous Challenge Team
Low-Cost Air Hockey Robot Using a Five-Bar Linkage Mechanism Driven by Position-Control Servomotors

ROS

TurtleBot4 Now Supports Jazzy
3D Gausian Rendering Playground for ROS
ROS 2 Bag Exporter: A Versatile Tool for ROS2 Bag Data Extraction
Articulated Robotics: How To Upgrade to Modern Gazebo
From Code to Canvas: A SOM-Powered Robotic Writing Arm
Your First Robot Arm: Building a Smart Pick-and-Place System with Edge Impulse
Robot & Chisel: A New Local Planner
ROS 2 Bag Exporter
Tiago Object Manipulation ROS
Wall edge mapping and localization from RGB-D Data
ROS 2 / Gazebo Rover
Simple 2D Navigation Sim
NeurCADRecon: Neural Representation for Reconstructing CAD Surfaces by Enforcing Zero Gaussian Curvature
Open Hardware for PSI1 Quadruped
PyRoboSim 3.1.0
Switching Sampling Space of Model Predictive Path-Integral Controller to Balance Efficiency and Safety in 4WIDS Vehicle Navigation
Multi-camera multi-robot visual localization system
GSRM: Building Roadmaps for Query-Efficient and Near-Optimal Path Planning Using a Reaction Diffusion System
Kinematic-ICP: Enhancing LiDAR Odometry with Kinematic Constraints for Wheeled Mobile Robots Moving on Planar Surfaces– code
AFLI-Calib: Robust LiDAR-IMU extrinsic self-calibration based on adaptive frame length LiDAR odometry – paper
Fergs Calibrates a Robot
ROS 2 Hand Eye Coordination
Crobotics Arm Wrapper

Got a minute?

Most of the team is going to be at ROSCon this week, we could really use some help answering questions on Robotics Stack Exchange.

Barry · 2024-10-18T02:01:54.321Z

Hi Katherine,

Just a friendly reminder that there is a change in the information for ROSCon China.
ROSCon China 2024 has been postponed to December 7-8, and the location has been changed to Shanghai.

roscon.cn

ROSCon China 2024

The annual ROS developer conference for X.

Red24dog · 2024-10-19T17:42:53.073Z

Is the free live stream available to view on a MAC/PC Browser, where no App in available.
Can the live stream be viewed without a Conference Registration? I install the Whova app on a iPad , logged in and now asking for a Event Invitation Code

christophebedard · 2024-10-20T08:55:22.723Z

I believe you do not need the app to view the livestream; the app is for in-person attendees. You should be able to just watch the livestream from any device.

Katherine_Scott · 2024-10-20T12:50:14.527Z

Could you please post an announcement on ROS Discourse about the date change?

I’ll certainly update it when I get a chance.

Katherine_Scott · 2024-10-20T12:52:39.195Z

@Red24dog
Not true. The live stream will be free on Vimeo. No app or registration required. I’ll re-post the full link once we’ve finalized the stream, probably around or about 2024-10-21T15:00:00Z

Red24dog · 2024-10-20T13:30:11.012Z

Appreciate the response & look forward to vieweing the event sessions…

Barry · 2024-10-21T09:00:19.252Z

@Katherine_Scott

I create that topic about the date change.

Information update for ROSCon China 2024 General

The original meeting introduction is here. Updated information: Dates : December 7th to 8th, 2024 Location : Shanghai, China Hosts : Shanghai Long Beach Music Hall Chinese Website English Website [image]