ROS News for the Week of October 7th, 2024
ROSCon 2024 is officially sold out! We can’t wait to see all 950 of you in Odense in a little over a week.
For those of you attending ROSCon we still have Birds of a Feather slots open. If you didn’t sign up for a workshop please consider organizing or attending one or more BoF sessions. We also have a few late-breaking unofficial ROSCon events including, an Aerial Robotics Meetup, and a MoveIt Pro Happy Hour.
Our friends and colleagues over Sail Drone, working with NOAA, shared some incredible footage from inside Hurricane Milton. More local news coverage on the video
This week we learned that our colleagues and former neighbors at Open Robotics, Corvus Robotics, have raised an $18M Series A. Congrats to the whole team! More reporting at the The Robot Report
Checkout Plantolin, a bio-inspired robot built as part of the Natural Robotics Contest. I got my start working on a bio-inspired robots, and this competition seems like a great way to get younger kids interested in the field. As for the Plantolin, seed scattering animals are quite effective, and seem to be at work in my yard. They also seem to be commercially viable.
Events
- 2024-10-14 ROS
Rust Meeting - 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
- 2024-11-02 → 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
- 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
- 2024-12-16 => 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
- Embodied AI Community Group - Call of Interest
- Corvus Robotics Raises $18M Series A – The Robot Report
- ROSCon 2024 Odense Aerial Robotics Meetup
- Mobile robotics ROS 2 project seeking team members
- MoveIt Pro Happy Hour at ROSCon 2024 (Denmark)
- BitCraze on Open-CV Live
- Hacked Robot Vacuums Yell Slurs
Plantolin: Winner of 2nd Natural Robotics Contest- For the Kids: Natural Robotics Contest
- 3D Vision Without Lidar
- SailDrone: Live Inside Milton
- North American robotics sales declined in first half of 2024
- Amazon’s new warehouses will employ 10x as many robots
- Mcity gives green light to remote autonomous vehicle testing, calls for federal standards
- Video Friday
ROS
- MoveIt Pro 6 Released - Runtime and Developer Platform for ROS 2
- 1 New and 119 Updated Packages for Iron Irwini
- RobotCAD 3.0.0 - released (5 mins to sim workflow)
- Robotics and ROS 2 - Learn by Doing! Manipulators
- Python Bindings for ROS 2 Image Transport – Tutorials
- Simulating a Custom Robot Arm with ROS 2 and MoveIt 2
- Wrapper for MoveIt2 and ROS 2.
- SOBIT Pro Robot
- Robot Design Optimization with Rotational and Prismatic Joints
- A proxy for seamless communication between ROS 2 topics and WebSocket clients
- KISS-Matcher for Point Clouds
- Multi-camera multi-robot visual localization system
- FlashMix: Fast Map-Free LiDAR Localization
- RX1 Humanoid Arm Hardware
- AFLI-Calib: Robust LiDAR-IMU extrinsic self-calibration
Got a Minute? 
We have 
issues in the ROS 2 Documentation that could use your help! We really need the community to help pitch in with documentation writing. Just an hour two of contribution would really help. 