ROS News for the Week of September 23rd 2024
This is your final ROSCon 2024 ticket reminder. The last day to purchase regular price ROSCon tickets is Monday 2024-09-30T07:00:00Z. Prices go up after Monday! I believe we have one ROSCon sponsorship slot remaining, if your org would like to snap it up please reach out to us before 2024-10-01T07:00:00Z.
Gazebo Ionic drops on Monday! We’ve released the release illustration and kicked off our swag sale for this release. We’ve also released a 3D model you can download and print at home!
Congratulations to our Japanese colleagues on another successful ROSConJP
My understanding is that this was our biggest ROSConJP yet, and I woke up to an absolute storm of amazing social media posts on Tuesday morning.
Check out this cool demo of using your phone and ROS to do robot teleoperation
Congratulations to our friends at PX4 who released v 1.15 this week! They have a bunch of great new tutorials that are taking a look at.
@JM_ROS has released some helpful plots from their ROS executor benchmarks that are worth checking out.
The ROSCon India CFP is now live. Submissions are due 2024-10-31T07:00:00Z.
Events
- 2024-10-03 Interop SIG: Resource Contention in Large Robot Fleets
- 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
- 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
News
Gazebo Ionic Swag + 3D Model- OSRF Interim Policy on GenAI
- Critical Container Escape NVIDIA Bug
- ROSCon BoF: Medical Applications
- ROSCon Bof: Maritime Robotics
- ROSConES Report
URDFormer: A Pipeline for Constructing Articulated Simulation Environments from Real-World Images- GGRt: Towards Pose-free Generalizable 3D Gaussian Splatting in Real-time
- Expressive Whole-Body 3D Gaussian Avatar
- Visual Programming of Offboard Mode with PX4 v1.15
Robotica: Montreal Robotics Hacker Space- New ROS Robot in Space
- Autonomous Kia Soul built by students
- ShapeLLM: Universal 3D Object Understanding for Embodied Interaction
- Text2Interaction: Establishing Safe and Preferable Human-Robot Interaction
- Video Friday
- Mendaera brings in $73M to finish developing its handheld robotic device
- Pyka raises $40M for autonomous electric aircraft
- Intel RealSense D421 offers low-cost depth sensing for robots
- Epica raises $18M for industrial, medical robots
- Vsim, founded by Nvidia alums, raises $24M for robotics simulation tech
- Meet Tennibot, the tennis ball Roomba
ROS
- ROS Teleop using Your Phone
- Px4 v 1.15 Release Now Available
- Exporting SolidWorks Design as URDF for ROS
- ROS Executors Benchmarks
- 50 New and 423 Updated Packages for ROS Rolling
- 47 New and 492 Updated Packages for Jazzy
- 3 New and 204 Updated Packages for Iron Irwini
- TurtleNest Package Creator Now in Most Active Distros
- 3D Object Detection and Navigation with YOLOv8 and LIMO Robot
- A collection of ROS 2 Aliases
- A New Wave in Robotics: Survey on Recent mmWave Radar Applications in Robotics
- Best Of Github: ROSConES 2024
- ROS 2: Clients within a Callback
- A tightly coupled and real time LiDAR-Inertial SLAM algorithm. Based upon LIMO-Velo and FAST_LIO projects.
- A ROS 2 stack that contains agents, interfaces and RQT plugins for connecting to CORTEX architecture using a Deep State Representation (DSR) graph.
- RViz Plugins for HRI
- Text2Speech for ROS
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