# ROS News for the Week of 8/10/2020

**URL:** <https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-8-10-2020/15917>\
**Category:** Community News\
**Tags:** weekly-update\
**Created:** [August 14, 2020, 6:11pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-8-10-2020/15917 "2020-08-14T18:11:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Katherine\_Scott](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/katherine_scott/32/4434_2.png) [@Katherine\_Scott](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/Katherine_Scott)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 6:11pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-8-10-2020/15917/1 "2020-08-14T18:11:39Z")

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![viz](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/2X/9/944bdae531cac96bbb9b9d4b62337e24845277f3.gif)  
[_Dual Quaternion Slerp_](http://discourse.ros.org/t/release-of-dual-quaternions/15911)  
  
  
 ![SubTPost5](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/2X/0/02b1fab830673af2ce2a6fcf94c98077c8ea0231.gif)  
[_DARPA SubT Tutorial 5: Communication_](http://discourse.ros.org/t/subt-challenge-hello-world-post-5-communications/15875)

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/2X/5/57733166028d2c6c766acf071daed00c6bd2633e.png)  
[_ROS on Jupyter Notebooks_](https://blog.jupyter.org/jupyterlab-ros-3dc9dab7f421)

  
Week of 8/10/2020 =============== \*Events\* \* [Amazon Cloud Robotics Summit -- August 18 & 19th --- FREE!](https://pages.awscloud.com/Cloud-Robotics-Summit.html) \* [ROS-I 2020 Conference Announced](https://rosindustrial.org/events/2020/12/15/ros-industrial-conference-2020) \* [Workshop on Engineering Resilient Robot Software Systems 2020 Call for Contributions](http://discourse.ros.org/t/workshop-on-engineering-resilient-robot-software-systems-2020-call-for-contributions/15837)

_Tutorials / Releases_

- [SubT Challenge Tutorial: Communication Breadcrumbs](http://discourse.ros.org/t/subt-challenge-hello-world-post-5-communications/15875)
- [Towards Data Science Tutorial on Rust and ROS 2](https://towardsdatascience.com/create-a-rust-client-for-ros2-from-scratch-part-0-integrate-c-api-to-create-ros2-node-e4b707dbb2ad)
- [eProsima Fast-DDS Pub/Sub Tutorial](https://fastrtps.docs.eprosima.com/en/latest/fastdds/getting_started/simple_app/simple_app.html)
- [Arduino Braccio Arm Pick+Drop Simulation Environment in Gazebo](http://discourse.ros.org/t/arduino-braccio-arm-pick-drop-simulation-environment-in-gazebo/15876)
- [Jupyter Notebooks running ROS.](https://blog.jupyter.org/jupyterlab-ros-3dc9dab7f421) Here’s a [demo](https://youtu.be/vad9ZAUyw7k)
- [Super cool SubT aerial path planning video](https://www.youtube.com/watchv=ZvUedi5mzN8&feature=youtu.be) that comes with [ROS source code](https://github.com/unr-arl/mbplanner_ros).
- [Fergs uses ROS 2 and RVIZ on a Mac](http://www.robotandchisel.com/2020/08/10/rviz2-on-mac/)
- [New ROS 2 Course for Beginners](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-online-course-ros2-for-beginners-learn-from-scratch/15838)
- [Discussion on CAD and URDF Exports](http://discourse.ros.org/t/freecad-with-gazebo/15794)
- [Dual Quaternions Python Kinentic Package](http://discourse.ros.org/t/release-of-dual-quaternions/15911)

_News_

- [Michigan makes an autonomous vehicle lane.](https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/mobility/2020/08/13/detroit-ann-arbor-self-driving-vehicle-corridor-moving-ahead/3364205001/)
- [Fergs Hands On with Cyclone DDS](http://www.robotandchisel.com/2020/08/12/cyclonedds/)
- [DARPA Releases More SubT Models](https://twitter.com/DARPA/status/1293219490227003393)
- [Mission Robotics Dives Lake Tahoe](http://discourse.ros.org/t/mission-robotics-rov-dives-into-ros-2-foxy/15830)
- Our friends at PlusOne (ROS-I Alums) were in the [local news](https://www-startupssanantonio-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.startupssanantonio.com/plus-one-robotics-and-the-future-of-work-port-san-antonios-tech-innovation-series/amp/) and in the [Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-e-commerce-booms-robots-pick-up-human-slack-11596859205)
- [Huge List of COVID Disinfection Robots.](https://luminrobotics.com/companies/)
- [Help Needed with Awesome Robotics Software](http://discourse.ros.org/t/about-the-definition-of-awesome-in-robotics/15869/8)
- [OAK-D Kickstarter Ends at $1.35M](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/opencv/opencv-ai-kit)
- [Changes to ROS 2 Middleware?](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ros2-middleware-change-proposal/15863)

_Surveys_

- [Amazon survey on simulation issues.](http://discourse.ros.org/t/why-is-robotics-simulation-hard/15888)
- _Please come talk to me if you want to run a survey._

_Everything Else_

- [Please keep being awesome to each other!](https://twitter.com/theseankelly/status/1293295123736993792)

  

Got something you would like to share? Drop it in the comments below. We’re going to start adding update items to the [Awesome Robot Tooling](https://github.com/protontypes/awesome-robotic-tooling), so if you want to suggest an item from above, I’m all ears.

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**Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 9:17pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-8-10-2020/15917/2 "2020-08-14T21:17:30Z")

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The first tracked vehicle with flippers in SubT simulator 🙂

[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/2X/f/f07731ffd49d9a521ff2a3a6f75e27e1aa4b6110.jpeg "CTU-CRAS-Norlab Absolem tracked robot preview in SubT Virtual Challenge") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALDOyb2vbe4)