Open Robotics

Here is your ROS and robotics news for the week of July 22nd, 2024: 🌅 Wolf Actuator: an open hardware planetary actuator 🌅 Fraunhofer IPA releases GeniCam ROS 2 Driver 🌅 A full list of every ROS 2 sensor package 🌅 Monarch Tractor raises $133M 🌅 Saronic Technologies raises $175M for maritime robotics 🌅 Indy Autonomous Challenge breaks another autonomy record 🌅 70 new and 179 updated packages for ROS 2 Jazzy 🌅 How to restrict DDS comms to specific interfaces 🌅 Characterizing the complexity of navigation in social situations 🌅 LLAMA ROS Package updates 🌅 ROS By-The-Bay, Gazebo Meeting, & Women in Robotics next week 🌅 Lots more! https://lnkd.in/gDHFyP2m

Missed the ROSCon CFP Deadline? Was your talk not selected? Have some late breaking news you want to share? No Problem! There are still plenty of opportunities to share your work and engage with the ROS community at ROSCon 2024 in Odense: Lightning Talks: ⚡ Quick and Easy: Prepare a concise 3-4 slide presentation for a 2-minute lightning talk. ⚡ Selected Onsite: Lightning talks are chosen at ROSCon, so get ready to showcase your project! Birds of a Feather (BoF) Sessions: 🐥 Deeper Discussions: If you need more time, organize a BoF session to dive into your project with interested attendees. 🐥 Dedicated Time and Space: ROSCon provides dedicated resources for BoF sessions on day zero. Details about lightning talks are currently on the ROSCon website and BoF session info should be posted in the next few weeks. Register for ROSCon as soon as possible to start planning your trip and participate in community events! https://lnkd.in/gWAzvtvV

Want to expand your network, check out the latest robotics and drone tech, and connect with bright new talent? Check out our upcoming activities! 👀            ✨ 16 𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭, 𝐎𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞:  𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝  This August, 50 international elite students will participate in the prestigious SDU programme “Elite Robot Summer School 2024 in Robotics & Entrepreneurship”. Join this special network event, where you can meet bright young minds and discuss what your company can offer potential future employees. The event will also feature talks from the heads of Universal Robots, Mobile Industrial Robots, Cobot Lift, and Odense Robotics, and finally, there will be a fireside chat featuring founders and leaders from the innovative robotics startups BlinkTroll Robotics, RobSub, and ROICO. 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘦: 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥!           ✨ 30-31 𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭, 𝐀𝐚𝐫𝐡𝐮𝐬:    𝐕𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐫     Dokk1 will once again open its doors to thousands of tech enthusiasts for the Vilde Teknologier festival. Join as a guest, exhibitor, or speaker and immerse yourself in a vibrant array of talks, discussions, workshops, robots, AI solutions, and more in the City of Aarhus.          ✨ 5 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫:     𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐲: 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐂𝐀𝐀  Discover the essentials of drone regulations and operational safety with two expertly curated workshops hosted alongside the Danish CAA (Trafikstyrelsen).     Workshops on: ✔ Drone Permits 101, focused on regulations, conditions and categories, ✔ SORA & C Marking, focused on application processes and unmarked flight operations.          ✨ 10 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫, 𝐎𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐮𝐩:     𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝: 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞    Odense Robotics and Food & Bio Cluster Denmark invite you to join us for an exploration of nursery technology, focusing on "end of line" robotics solutions in production. The event is designed for nurseries aiming to enhance their production efficiency and quality through automation.         ✨ 11 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐎𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞:   𝐂𝐲𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 – 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭   Do you want to gain insights into key cybersecurity concepts, common threats and attacks, and tools to enhance your cybersecurity awareness? Join this workshop and learn how to protect robotics systems from cyberattacks and build secure software systems.         ▶ Learn more and see the full programmes on our website, where you can sign up for our various activities and find many more: https://lnkd.in/gZRe_EQM                   #robotics #automation #WeAreRobotHeroes #networking #DKbiz 

Our Argentinian colleagues at Ekumen are putting together a ROS Meetup in Buenos Aires! If you are a ROS user in the area we're sure they would love to see you!

A blast from the past (2010) we found at the Vintage Computer Festival at the Computer History Museum.

Here's your ROS news for the week of July 29th, 2024: 🚀 NASA Sponsors Space ROS Challenge 🚀 Benjamin Perseghetti demos Gazebo Harmonic 🚀 Survey on ROS for Windows 11 🚀 Sebastian Castro has advice for young engineers 🚀 $2.7B in robotics funding in June 2024 🚀 Load Balancing for ROS 2 Services 🚀 Gaussian Splatting Tutorial 🚀 Awesome LIDAR Mapping 🚀 Managing End-to-End Timing Jitters in ROS2 Computation Chains 🚀 And lots, lots, more! https://lnkd.in/gPT-wp3y

Great talk by Katherine Scott about the new features in ROS 2 during today's ROS By-the-Bay meetup in Mountain View and great to see the support by Intrinsic for this crucial open source project at the center of the robotics ecosystem. Robotics research in particular would be impossible without the many open source software projects we rely on every day. Thanks for all the hospitality at Intrinsic today Torsten Kroeger and Katherine Scott and for the opportunity to present our work on the open cloud robotics testbed cloudgripper.org during the meetup. #ROS #ROS2 Open Robotics

We still have ten open seats for ROS By-The-Bay tomorrow, August 1st, in Mountain View! Our speakers tomorrow will be Prof. Florian T. Pokorny from KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Katherine Scott at Intrinsic. https://lnkd.in/guvafF8G

In case you missed it, here is Benjamin Perseghetti at our monthly Gazebo Community Meeting. Ben gave an absolutely fantastic live demo of controlling lights and cameras within modern Gazebo and made a pretty compelling case for upgrading to Gazebo Harmonic. https://lnkd.in/gCZJhvSV

EVENT ROS By-The-Bay August 1, 2024 bit.ly/ROSBTBAug24 - Bay Area meetup for Robot Operating System (ROS) developers - Organized by Katherine Scott From Description: "Florian Pokorny Associate Professor of Machine Learning KTH Royal Institute of Technology "Prof. Pokorny will present on, 'Cloud Robotics for Large-Scale Data-Driven Robotic Manipulation.' "This presentation will discuss the group's efforts in developing large scale data-driven models for robotic manipulation as well as "CloudGripper (cloudgripper.org), an open-source cloud robotics research testbed enabling large scale data collection and remote experimentation." #developers #robotics #ros #networking #opensource #technology