# ROS News for the Week of 6/21/2021

**URL:** <https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-6-21-2021/21082>\
**Category:** Community News\
**Tags:** weekly-update\
**Created:** [June 25, 2021, 4:17pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-6-21-2021/21082 "2021-06-25T16:17:01Z")\
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# ROS News for the Week 6/21/2021

![embark-small](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/2X/8/8d960a54b15676afcba71131ae6c96162148fca3.gif)  
[Ride along with Embark Trucks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-02xycYbws) – [They were just SPAC’d for $5.2B](https://www.reuters.com/technology/self-driving-truck-maker-embark-go-public-via-46-bln-spac-deal-2021-06-23/)

  

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/2X/0/064f68481d66b8664060b5db5794620bb25a2efe.jpeg)  
[DOTS SWARM Robot Competition](https://robohub.org/simulations-real-robots-and-bloopers-from-the-dots-competition-powering-emergency-food-distribution-using-swarms/)

# Events

- [6/27/2021 Black in Robotics Build a ROS 2 Robot](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/intermediate-robotics-2-build-a-ros-2-robot-sponsored-by-amazon-tickets-144488642419)
- [6/29/2021 DoT CARMA on Incident Management and Weather for Autonomous Vehicles](https://www.transportationops.org/event/carma-webinar-series-traffic-incident-management-basic-travel-and-weather-use-cases)
- [6/30/2021 Ignition Community Meeting](https://community.gazebosim.org/t/ignition-community-meeting-june-2021/978)
- [6/30/2021 Mass Robotics How to Start a Robotics Company](https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/8160410789861656076)
- [7/9/2021 ROSCon CFP Closes](http://discourse.ros.org/t/roscon-2021-call-for-proposals/19811)
- [7/9/2021 ROSCon Diversity Scholarshop Application Deadline](http://discourse.ros.org/t/roscon-2021-diversity-scholarships-applications-open/19813)
- [7/25/2021 Black in Robotics Build a ROS 2 Robot](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/intermediate-robotics-2-build-a-ros-2-robot-sponsored-by-amazon-tickets-145965846777)
- [9/14/2021 PX4 Dev Summit](http://discourse.ros.org/t/save-the-date-the-px4-developer-summit-is-back-online-for-2021/20147)
- [9/16/2021 ROSConJp](https://roscon.jp/2021/)
- [10/16/2021 Self Racing Cars Bay Area](http://selfracingcars.com/)
- [10/21/2021 ROSCon is Back!](http://discourse.ros.org/t/roscon-2021-we-re-back/19243/8)

# News

- [Amazon Warehouse Bots](https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/whats-going-on-with-amazons-hightech-warehouse-robots)
- [Graze Robot Mower](https://www.therobotreport.com/how-graze-mowings-self-driving-mower-is-disrupting-the-100-billion-commercial-landscaping-industry/)
- [Toyota Home Robot](https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/21/toyota-research-institute-shows-how-its-robotics-work-with-difficult-surfaces-in-the-home/)
- [Techcrunch Robot Roundup](https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/24/robotics-roundup-17/?tpcc=ECTW2020)
- [Silicon Valley Robotics: Interesting Things in Robotics this Week](https://www.getrevue.co/profile/svrobo/issues/interesting-things-in-robotics-this-week-issue-16-656255)
- [DOTS Robot Competition](https://robohub.org/simulations-real-robots-and-bloopers-from-the-dots-competition-powering-emergency-food-distribution-using-swarms/)
- [RBR Start-Up Profiles](https://www.roboticsbusinessreview.com/category/start-up-profile/)
- [Melonee Wise of Fetch: Safety with AMRs](https://www.automate.org/industry-insights/safety-equation-changes-with-amrs)
- [CVPR 2021 Searchable Papers/Talks](https://public.tableau.com/views/CVPR2021/Dashboard1?:language=en-US&:display_count=n&:origin=viz_share_link:showVizHome=no)
- [CVPR 2021 Search Papers / Talks II](https://blog.kitware.com/demos/cvpr-2021-papers/?filter=authors&search=)
- [How Do Agile Practitioners Interpret and Foster “Technical Excellence”?](https://conf.researchr.org/details/ease-2021/ease-2021-papers/1/How-Do-Agile-Practitioners-Interpret-and-Foster-Technical-Excellence-)
- [Embark Trucks Ride Along](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-02xycYbws)
- [SPAC ATTACK: Embark Trucks $5.2B](https://www.reuters.com/technology/self-driving-truck-maker-embark-go-public-via-46-bln-spac-deal-2021-06-23/)
- [Binary TTC Temportal Geofence for Autonomous Navigation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUQJcjyerM4)
- [Time Lens: Event Based Video Frame Interpolation](http://rpg.ifi.uzh.ch/TimeLens.html)
- [Are COBOTS Really Safe and Easy to Use](https://www.swri.org/industry/industrial-robotics-automation/blog/are-cobots-really-safe-easy-use)
- [Crazy Spherical Gear](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHUv9Zda_48)
- [Single Image Human Pose from Single Depth Image](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/BodyPartRecognition.pdf)
- [Boston Dynamics Acquired AGAIN](https://www.therobotreport.com/hyundai-completes-acquisition-controlling-stake-boston-dynamics/)
- [Venture Beat on Isaac Sim](https://venturebeat.com/2021/06/21/nvidias-isaac-robot-simulations-debut-on-omniverse/)
- [Drone Show Fail](https://dronedj.com/2021/06/23/yikes-insane-drone-light-show-fail-sends-drones-plunging-from-the-sky-video/)
- [Efficient Annotation Cookbook for Image Classification](https://fidler-lab.github.io/efficient-annotation-cookbook/)
- [4D Panoptic LIDAR Segmentation](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.12472.pdf)

# ROS

- [MoveIt vs MoveIt 2](https://moveit.ros.org/ros2/moveit/2021/06/08/moveit-vs-moveit2.html)
- [Isaac Sim: Multi Camera Support in ROS](https://developer.nvidia.com/isaac-sim?ncid=so-twit-243478#cid=em09_so-twit_en-us)
- [Integration Service 3.0 Launch](http://discourse.ros.org/t/eprosima-is-launching-integration-service-v3-0-0/20515/2)
- [BNO055 ROS Driver](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ros2-bno055-driver/20994)
- [ROS On Alpine Linux](https://www.seqsense.org/alpine-ros)
- [Foxglove Studio Extensions](https://foxglove.dev/blog/announcing-foxglove-studio-extensions)

# Questions

- [ROS Noetic Windows Commands](https://answers.ros.org/question/381067/beginner-ros-noetic-windows10-commands/)
- [Coordinate Frameworks and Robot\_Localization Package](https://answers.ros.org/question/381048/coordinate-frameworks-and-robot_localization-package/)
- [Cross-compile Foxy for armhf](https://answers.ros.org/question/380724/cross-compile-foxy-for-armhf/)

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Embark Trucks

It is not but the design gives me Western Star 5700 vibes 🙃

Feels like any moment it can start saying things like “I am Optimus Prime and I send this message to any surviving Autobots taking refuge among the stars.”