# ROS News for April 14th, 2023

**URL:** <https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-april-14th-2023/30904>\
**Category:** Community News\
**Tags:** weekly-update\
**Created:** [April 14, 2023, 7:58pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-april-14th-2023/30904 "2023-04-14T19:58:30Z")\
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# ROS News for the Week of April 10th, 2023

 ![IRON IRWINI Testing & Tutorial Party](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/1/2/124f5a8a2f5cd3213fd24e488755ea282afc5c6c.png)  
The [ROS 2 Iron Irwini Feature Freeze](http://discourse.ros.org/t/upcoming-feature-freeze-for-ros-2-iron-irwini-on-17th-april-2023/30812) is Monday! We’re having [a ROS Iron Irwini Testing & Tutorial Party](http://discourse.ros.org/t/save-the-date-iron-irwini-testing-and-tutorial-party-may-3rd-2023/30884) on 2023-05-03T15:00:00Z

  

 ![MeetupSG](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/0/2/026ee80b314f1b71f3a4b478ce8d1ff9927f1036.jpeg)  
[Don’t miss the FOSS Asia livestream](https://www.youtube.com/@FOSSASIAorg/streams) and our [ROS meetup in Singapore this weekend.](https://bit.ly/ROSMeetupSG)

  

 ![Screenshot from 2023-04-14 12-46-44](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/7/4/7417786d27841853a25b172ca15ebc8f910f9419.png)

- [Andreas Bihlmaier of Intrinsic is on the Sense, Think, Act Podcast this week](http://discourse.ros.org/t/production-ready-robotics-how-to-move-fast-and-not-destroy-your-robot-sense-think-act-podcast/30897)

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[ROSConJP](https://roscon.jp/) has an awesome new logo! [The ROScon JP team is also looking for sponsors!](http://discourse.ros.org/t/roscon-jp-2023/30889)

# Events

- [2023-04-15 FOSSASIA: Mapping in digital twins for autonomous navigation in the real world.](https://eventyay.com/e/7cfe0771/session/8243)
- [2023-04-15 FOSSASIA: ECS Techniques for Robotics Simulation](https://eventyay.com/e/7cfe0771/session/8244)
- [2023-04-15 ROS Meetup Singapore](https://bit.ly/ROSMeetupSG)
- [2023-04-20 NEW: URDF Working Group Meeting](http://discourse.ros.org/t/short-term-wg-about-urdf-description-formats/30843)
- [2023-04-23 NEW ROS Spain Virtual Meetup](http://discourse.ros.org/t/reunion-ros-es-sp-10-04-23/30662)
- [2023-04-25 ROS Zurich Meetup](http://discourse.ros.org/t/7th-robotics-and-ros-in-zurich-meetup-in-presence-tue-apr-25-2023-6-30-pm/30892)
- [2023-04-26 NEW: Aerial Robotics Working Group](http://discourse.ros.org/t/proposal-for-ros-aerial-robotics-working-group/30867/2)
- [2023-04-27 MoveIt Maintainer Meeting](http://discourse.ros.org/t/manipulation-wg-moveit-maintainer-meeting-april-27/30754)
- [2023-04-28 Open Hardware Summit](https://2023.oshwa.org/)
- [2023-04-29 ROS Meetup Delhi](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfcFdwGj1XYnBRlB8s_2tT1ZM8aHJ3UBzKgB3c0WVSTWS-XCQ/viewform)
- [2023-05-01 AI / Robotics Venture Fair at CMU](https://www.f6s.com/ai-robotics-venture-fair-2023-cmuiw/about)
- [2023-05-10 Robotics Summit with our Dr. Grey](https://www.roboticssummit.com/speaker/michael-grey/)
- [2023-05-16 How to Integrate ROS 2 with DDS](https://newsroom.eclipse.org/events/how-integrate-ros-2-dds)
- [2023-05-23 Automate Startup Challenge](https://www.automateshow.com/trade-show/startup-challenge?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=owned&utm_content=show)
- [2023-05-24 → 2023-05-25 ROS Industrial Annual Meeting](https://rosindustrial.org/events/2023/5/ros-industrial-consortium-americas-2023-annual-meeting)
- [2023-06-01 - 2023-06-03 Toulouse Robot Race](http://discourse.ros.org/t/toulouse-robot-race-juin-2023/30709)
- [2023-06-02 ICRA Robot Wrestling Competition](http://discourse.ros.org/t/icra-2023-simulated-humanoid-robot-wrestling-competition/29268) – [More Info](https://webots.cloud/run?version=R2023a&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fcyberbotics%2Fwrestling%2Fblob%2Fcompetition%2Fworlds%2Fwrestling.wbt&type=competition)
- 2023-06-08 World MoveIt Day
- [2023-07-04 → 2023-07-05 ROScon France in Bordeaux](http://discourse.ros.org/t/rosconfr-2023-a-bordeaux-pendant-robocup/29181) –[in conjunction with RoboCup](https://2023.robocup.org/en/)
- [2023-07-04 → 2023-07-05 ROS Industrial EU](https://rosindustrial.org/rosindustrial-conference-2023)
- 2023-07-09 ROSCon Submission Deadline
- [2023-08-14 - 2023-08-25 ROS Summer School](https://eveeno.com/ROS_Summer_School_2023)
- [2023-09-26 ROSCon JP](http://discourse.ros.org/t/roscon-jp-2023-in/29296)
- [2023-09-29 ROSCon Madrid](http://discourse.ros.org/t/roscon-madrid-2023/30571)
- [2023-10-18 → 2023-\>10-20 ROSCon 2023 New Orleans](https://roscon.ros.org/2023)
- [2023-10-21 → 2023-\>10-22 PX4 Developer Summit New Orleans](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/px4-developer-summit/?utm_content=242496600&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin&hss_channel=lcp-18052226)

# News

- [Andreas Bihlmaier of Intrinsic on Sense, Think, Act Podcast](http://discourse.ros.org/t/production-ready-robotics-how-to-move-fast-and-not-destroy-your-robot-sense-think-act-podcast/30897)
- [2023 ROS Awards by The Construct](https://www.theconstructsim.com/ros-awards-2023/)
- [13 VCs Talk about Robotics](https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/13/13-vcs-talk-about-the-state-of-robotics-investing-in-2023/)
- [I made a legged wheel robot](https://youtu.be/ZK4BslJ4NuA)
- [Interesting new home robot as a service](https://matician.com/)
- [Roboflow & Segment Everything on OpenCV](https://www.linkedin.com/events/roboflowlaunchweek-thebeststuff7051633273789165568/comments/)
- [New York’s mayor wants you to know how much he loves police robots](https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/11/new-yorks-mayor-wants-you-to-know-how-much-he-loves-police-robots/)
- [Carbon Raises $30M](https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/11/carbons-laser-weeding-robots-score-another-30-million/)
- [ROS Support from farm-ng](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7rIpSrkeA4&ab_channel=farm-ng)
- [Scythe Robotics releases open-source CANopen stack](https://www.therobotreport.com/scythe-robotics-releases-open-source-canopen-stack/)
- [LSD (LiDAR SLAM & Detection) is an open source perception architecture for autonomous vehicle/robotics](https://github.com/w111liang222/lidar-slam-detection)
- [Micro Mouse Maze Competition](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l28CYKvrds&ab_channel=MicroMouse)

# Research

- [Deep RL at Scale: Recycling Robots](https://rl-at-scale.github.io/)
- [Amazon releases largest dataset for training “pick and place” robots](https://www.amazon.science/blog/amazon-releases-largest-dataset-for-training-pick-and-place-robots)
- [Introducing Segment Anything](https://ai.facebook.com/blog/segment-anything-foundation-model-image-segmentation/)
- [USTC FLICAR: A Multisensor Fusion Dataset of LiDAR-Inertial-Camera for Heavy-duty Autonomous Aerial Work Robots](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01986)
- [NeuralUDF: Learning Unsigned Distance Fields for Multi-view Reconstruction of Surfaces with Arbitrary Topologies](https://github.com/flamehaze1115/neuraludf)
- [SparseFusion: Distilling View-conditioned Diffusion for 3D Reconstruction](https://sparsefusion.github.io/)
- [Loosely Coupled Odometry, UWB Ranging, and Cooperative Spatial Detection for Relative Monte-Carlo Multi-Robot Localization](https://tiers.utu.fi/static/papers/xianjia2023loosely.pdf)
- [ShapeClipper: Scalable 3D Shape Learning from Single-View Images via Geometric and CLIP-based Consistency](https://zixuanh.com/projects/shapeclipper.html)
- [Panoptic Segment Anything from Segments.ai](https://github.com/segments-ai/panoptic-segment-anything)
- [Zip-NeRF: Anti-Aliased Grid-Based Neural Radiance Fields](https://jonbarron.info/zipnerf/)
- [Neural Lens Modeling](https://neural-lens.github.io/)

# ROS

- [ROS 2 Iron Irwini Feature Freeze 2023-04-17](http://discourse.ros.org/t/upcoming-feature-freeze-for-ros-2-iron-irwini-on-17th-april-2023/30812)
- [Save the Date: ROS Iron Testing & Tutorial Party](http://discourse.ros.org/t/save-the-date-iron-irwini-testing-and-tutorial-party-may-3rd-2023/30884)
- [ROS + K8s Tutorial #3](https://youtu.be/Amxsy5A2NWE)
- [ROSCon JP Sponsorship Packages Available + AWESOME LOGO](http://discourse.ros.org/t/roscon-jp-2023/30889)
- [NEW: Short Term URDF Working Group](http://discourse.ros.org/t/short-term-wg-about-urdf-description-formats/30843)
- [NEW: Aerial Robotics Working Group](http://discourse.ros.org/t/proposal-for-ros-aerial-robotics-working-group/30867/2)
- [ROSBlox Modules](http://discourse.ros.org/t/announcing-rosblox-modules-to-discover-ros/30876)
- [Awesome White Paper on 360 Cameras](http://discourse.ros.org/t/cameras-with-360-degree-fov-in-ros/30845)
- [New and Improved: USB\_Cam Package](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-internal-api-and-configuration-policy-for-usb-cam/30795)
- [Cool Package: Mesh Tools](https://github.com/naturerobots/mesh_tools)
- [NEW! Source Code Documentation in docs.ros.org](https://docs.ros.org/en/rolling/p/rclpy/rclpy.node.html)
- [Software engineering and ROS 2 distributions](http://discourse.ros.org/t/software-engineering-and-ros-2-distributions/30900)
- [Awesome Cloud Robotics](https://github.com/Airbotics/awesome-cloud-robotics)
- [ROS System Monitor Package](https://github.com/haruyama8940/system_monitor_ROS)
- [Lidar-Inertial-Wheel Odometry and Mapping](https://github.com/ZikangYuan/liw_oam)
- [Walking Pattern Generator using ROS 2 for Humanoid Robots](https://github.com/open-rdc/ROS2_Walking_Pattern_Generator)

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