ROS News for the Week of November 18th, 2024

Katherine_Scott · 2024-11-22T21:34:57.937Z

ROS News for the Week of November 18th, 2024

The ROSCon 2024 videos are finally here! If you missed a talk or missed the whole event you can now catch up by watching the videos online.

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Join us on 2024-11-27 for our monthly Gazebo Community Meeting. We’ll have eight competitors from the NASA Space ROS Summer Sprint Challenge on to talk about their work.

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@cottsay, one of our fantastic ROS core contributors, just added a new automatic review tool to rosdistro that should make it faster and easier to get your pull requests approved. Learn all about it in this post or by watching this ROSCon lightning talk.

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Check out this homebrew ROS 2 snow plowing robot by Serdar Abali in Finland! With winter fast approaching in the northern hemisphere this seems like an amazing project! Coming across cool DIY ROS projects like this always makes my day.

Events

2024-11-27 Gazebo Community Meeting – Space ROS Summer Sprint Challenge
2024-12-02 Space Station OS Meeting 12pm JST/ 7am PST
2024-12-03 ROSCon Germany
2024-12-05 ROSCon India
2024-12-07 Circuit Launch Mountain View Grand Opening
2024-12-07 → 2024-12-08 ROSCon China in Shenzhen
2024-12-11 => 2024-12-12 Humanoids Summit Bay Area
2024-12-15 FIRA Ag Robotics Hackathon Registration Deadline
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
2025-02-01 FOSDEM 25 – See Robotics and Sim Room
2025-02-04 => 2025-02-06 World FIRA Ag Robotics Conference in Toulouse, France
2025-04-28 International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering
2025-05-30 => 2025-05-31 2025 Open Hardware Summit in Edinburgh

News

Seegrid joins OSRA
DIY ROS 2 Snow Removal Robot in Finland
Bringing robot skills from simulation to the real world
Adaptive morphing for stable, resilient, and energy-efficient flight of avian-informed drones
Cyobot v2 Open Hardware Quadruped
Four Growers builds robots to help solve greenhouse labor shortages
Another boring SMACC demo in IsaacSim
FreeCAD 1.0 Release – Sizzle Reel
OpenCV Live: The Best Stuff from ROSCon 2024
TRUMPF & Intrinsic: AI-enabled robotics for the machine tool industry
Dave Coleman on Audrow Nash Podcast
Teleo wants to help the robotics industry reach its ‘ChatGPT moment’
Video Friday
New Robot Sensor Modality?
Red Cat beats Skydio for Drone Contract
Pickle Robot gets orders for over 30 unloading systems plus $50M in funding
Collaborative Robotics unveils Proxie mobile manipulator
ZettaScale designs Zenoh to transcend DDS for automotive, ROS communications

ROS

ROSCon 2024 Videos and Slides
New Automation for Validating rosdistro Changes
October TGC Meeting Minutes
A Python Package that helps you generate ROS 2 Packages
Simplifying AI Integration in UAVs: Challenges, Ideas, and Community Solutions
0 New and 47 Updated Noetic Packages
43 New and 347 Updated Packages for Jazzy
ROS PMC Meeting Minutes for 2024-11-19
Further Development of the ROS ABB Driver
ROS Embodied AI Community Group
Reference implementation of Zenoh-pico to micro-ROS
Auto Car ROS 2 Vehicle Simulator
Floor Plan Based Active Global Localization and Navigation Aid for Persons with Blindness
30 Different Image Matching Techniques in One Repository
Fault Tolerant FogROS2
ROS Voice Assistant
Unlocking for Industrial Users the Power of ROS 2: ROS-I October Training Highlights

Got a Minute?

@DLu just sent over this amazing custom RViz panel tutorial to the ROS 2 documentation. We should all be more like @DLu and spend some time porting and updating ROS 1 Wiki articles to the ROS 2 documentation.

Katherine_Scott · 2024-11-22T22:07:13.927Z

I forgot to mention, no news next week due to the Thanksgiving holiday break.