ROS News for the Week of September 16th, 2024
If it feels like a slow news week this week it is probably because of all of the ROS events we had scheduled this week This week we had seven events, in seven countries, on three continents! As I write this I am back home in Ann Arbor meeting with Univ. of Michigan’s new undergraduate robotics program. If you happen to be a UofM student DM me, I would love to buy you a coffee!
Congratulations to our colleagues in
Seville this week on another successful ROSCon Spain!
Our friends at Foxglove had their first Actuate conference in San Francisco on Thursday. The event was fantastic and had a great mix of ROS core contributors (@clalancette, @smac, and myself), regional academics, and various startups from around the globe. I’ll share the videos once they are posted!
ROSCon.jp is next week! We’re really excited to see what our Japanese colleagues have been up to! Please tag Open Robotics in your photos and videos. We’ll try to share as many as we can!
ROSCon 2024 is just a month away. Regularly priced tickets are still on sale until 2024-10-01T07:00:00Z, but don’t delay, we’re on track to sell out. This will likely be our largest ROSCon yet! As of Monday all of our ROSCon workshops are now SOLD OUT. Don’t worry though, we still have plenty of
Birds of a Feather session sign up slots. We want to encourage anyone who is working on an interesting topic in robotics to sign up for a BoF!
Events
- 2024-09-21 Arabian ROS Meetup
- 2024-09-24 Maritime Community Group Show and Tell
- 2024-09-25 ROSConJP
- 2024-10-04 F1Tenth Race at IROS 2024
- 2024-10-21 → 2024-10-24 ROSCon 2024 in Odense, 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 → 2024-11-7 ROS-Industrial APAC Summit – More
- 2024-11-22 F1Tenth Learning to Trust Autonomy Workshop at BU
- 2024-12-03 ROSCon Germany
- 2024-12-05 ROSCon India
News
- FreeCAD 1.0 Out
- BitCraze at ROSCon
- KiwiBots Come with Ads Now
- Google Deep Mind Teaches Robot to Tie Shoes
- @mrobinson: “Robotics Champion, Master Collaborator, Trailblazer”
- Siemens / Teradyne Robot Showcase in Chicago
- Pickommerce Raises $3.4M
- New No-Code OpenTrons Robot
- New Kawasawki Educational Robot – Anyone know if it has a ROS package yet?
- Kubota Acquires Bloomfield Robotics
- ICRA is not Over the Hill
- Challengers Are Coming for NVIDIAs Crown
- GeoCalib: Learning Single-image Calibration with Geometric Optimization (ECCV 2024)
ROS
- RoboCad 3.0.0 Released
- Easily Switch Between ROS Terminal Environments
- Question Regarding ros2_control Design
- Announcing ROS-Tool: Web UIs for ROS
- Cascade Lifecycle Nodes
- Goal-Auxiliary Actor-Critic for 6D Robotic Grasping with Point Clouds
- A MultiModal Mapping (M2Mapping) Framework for LiDAR-Visual Systems
- Borrow a Tolerance
- Thor Robotic Arm ROS Driver
- Attention-based Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Autonomous Robot Exploration Planner in ROS
- Actual ROS Mine Sweeper
- MoveIt Middleware Benchmark
- 18 New and 281 Updated Packages
- Extreme Mapping Dataset
- ABB ROS Driver?
- Autonomous Boat Control in GPS-Based System
- Difference Between DDS Design and Reality
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