ROS News for the Week of September 11th, 2023
Some very big new broke while I was on vacation. Our very, very, good friends at Clearpath Robotics (along with their sibling organization Otto Motors) have been acquired by Rockwell Automation! Congratulation to everyone involved. We wish you luck on the next phase of your journey
Press Release – IEEE Spectrum – Robot Report – Globe & Mail
Jim Ostrowski from Blue River / John Deere was on Sense, Think, Act discussing agricultural robotics. If you are interested in agricultural robotics FIRA 2023 is happening next week. I’ll be there on Tuesday meeting all of the new agricultural robotics companies and publishing them on social media. If you are interested in meeting up drop me a line!
The ROS 2 TSC Community Representative Election kicked off this week. If you would like to be the voice of the ROS community on the TSC consider applying!
We’re wrapping up the Gazebo Harmonic tutorial party today. The team is hard at work preparing the next Gazebo release. If you would like to see the latest version of Gazebo, and support the team, drop by our next Gazebo Community Meeting
Hot off the heels of a great ROS By-The-Bay last night, our colleagues in Singapore have planned an amazing ROS Meetup for the last week in September. We’ve also got our first Netherlands ROS meetup scheduled for November 2nd.
Events
- 2023-09-19 → 2023-09-21 TechCrunch Disrupt (ROS Heavy Lineup)
- 2023-9-19 → 2023-09-21 FIRA USA Ag Robotics Conference in Salinas
- 2023-9-21 ROS Industrial Community Meeting
- 2023-09-26 ROSCon JP
- 2023-09-27 Infrastructure Community Meeting
- 2023-09-27 Gazebo Community Meeting – Harmoic Release Demo!
- NEW 2023-09-28 ROS Meetup Singapore
- 2023-09-29 ROSCon Madrid
- NEW 2023-10-03 ROS Meetup at IROS
- 2023-10-01 → 2023-10-05 14th F1Tenth Autonomous Grand Prix
- 2023-10-02 → 2023-10-04 IROS Simulated Humanoid Robot Wrestling Competition
- 2023-10-17 MoveItCon @ ROSCon!
- 2023-10-18 → 2023->10-20 ROSCon 2023 New Orleans
- 2023-10-21 → 2023->10-22 PX4 Developer Summit New Orleans
- 2023-10-14 → 2023-10-15 ROSCon India
- 2023-11-2 ROS Meetup Netherlands
- 2024 Open Hardware Summit Montreal
News
- * Rockwell Automation Acquires Clearpath Robotics – IEEE Spectrum – Robot Report – Globe & Mail
- Sense, Think, Act: Jim Ostrowski of Blue River / John Deere
- Ascento launches nimble Guard robot with wheel-leg design – TechCrunch
- Massachusetts legislature to consider bill banning armed robots
- CompressorHead: All Robot Band
- ROSCon India Reg Open
- Franka Emika Financial Problems
- Designing Enclosures with Different IP Ratings in Product Development
- Softbank revives Argo AI as Stack AV – Robot Report
- Berkeley released BridgeData V2 dataset for robot learning at scale
- Agility Robotics’ Melonee Wise on how humanoids can fill automation gaps
- ABB spending $280M on new European robotics hub
- Mujin Robotics Raises $85M
- State Estimation for Lie Groups – Source
Rust Implementation of PythonRobotics- Our own @tomoyafujita is a Sony Outstanding Engineer
- CPP Robotics: cpp implementation of robotics algorithms including localization, mapping, SLAM, path planning and control
- NASA-JPL Open Source Rover: off-the-shelf edition
- GSoC 2023: Automatically Computing Moments of Inertia for SDFormat Links
ROS
ROS 2 TSC Community Representative Election- (cool) Search Almost All ROS Code on SourceGraph
- Future of ROS 2 GPS Support
- RobotPerf benchmarks “beta” release
- Setting Up Stereolabs ZED X for ROS 2
- 50 New and 61 Updated Packages for Humble
- 80 New and 407 Updated Packages for Rolling
- 7 New and 51 Updated Packages for ROS 1 Noetic
- Patch Release 2 for Iron Irwini with 12 new and 182 Updated Packages
- Introducing psdk_ros2: Bridging DJI’s PSDK libraries with ROS 2
- Colcon in a Container
- Drag and Drop Topic Visualization in Foxglove
- LEAP Hand:Low-Cost, Efficient, and Anthropomorphic Hand for Robot Learning
- Modern Robotics 1 – Arm Type Manipulators
- Crafting Your Dockerfile
- Minimal example for using Navigation 2 with GNSS/IMU Localization in (Ignition) Gazebo
- Little SLAM – toy SLAM Library – ROS Wrapper
- Aerostack 2 – Multiple Aerial Robot Control
- Component Container – Dedicated Thread for Each Callback Group
- ROS 2 package of tightly-coupled lidar inertial ndt/gicp slam
- ROS for Elixir
- 4D Radar SLAM