# ROS News for the Week of 9/20/2021

**URL:** <https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-9-20-2021/22424>\
**Category:** Community News\
**Tags:** weekly-update\
**Created:** [September 24, 2021, 5:39pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-9-20-2021/22424 "2021-09-24T17:39:33Z")\
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# ROS News for the Week of 9/20/2021

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It was/is DARPA SubT Finals this Week. [Watch the streams here.](https://www.subtchallenge.com/) or check [Twitter for live updates](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SubTChallenge&src=typeahead_click&f=live).  
  
  
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[Big News – Open Robotics and NVIDIA are working together to improve ROS 2 and Ignition performance on NVIDIA Hardware](https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-ai-perception-coming-to-ros-developers/)

# Please contribute!

_We’ve got a bunch of community initiatives going on right now! Please read up on them and get involved_

- [ROS World Bird of a Feather Sessions and Quiz Master](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-world-bird-of-a-feather-sessions-and-quiz-master/22404)
- [ROS 2 Technical Steering Committee Representative](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-2-technical-steering-comittee-community-representative-election/22406)
- [ROS World Lightning Talk Video Submissions Now Open](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-world-2021-call-for-lightning-talk-videos/22298)
- [Answer ROS Questions Like a Pirate Week MMXXI](http://discourse.ros.org/t/answer-ros-questions-like-a-pirate-week-mmxxi/22351)
- [Ignition Fortress Tutorial Party](https://community.gazebosim.org/t/ignition-fortress-tutorial-party-support-open-source-and-get-t-shirts/1101)

# Events

- [9/29/2021 CARMA Work Zone Use Case](http://discourse.ros.org/t/carma-webinar-series-work-zone-use-cases/22046)
- [9/29/2021 Shunpei Kato – Advancing Autonomous Driving thru Open Source Software](https://www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/fall-2021-grasp-sfi-dr-shinpei-kato-university-of-tokyo-advancing-autonomous-driving-thru-open-source-software/)
- [9/30/2021 Jack Silberman at Jetson AI Lab](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4_tKKmtmxI)
- [9/30/2021 Black in Robotics Boston Community Mixer](https://blackinroboticsbostonfallmixer.splashthat.com/)
- [10/1/2021 MASS Robotics Career Fair](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/robotics-ai-technical-career-fair-tickets-167884199159)
- [10/5/2021 ROS 2 with Elixir](https://codesync.global/speaker/hideki-takase/)
- [10/16/2021 Self Racing Cars Bay Area](http://selfracingcars.com/)
- [10/20/2021 ROSWorld is Back!](https://roscon.ros.org/2021/)
- [10/23/2021 Robot Block Party Circuit Launch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gus5FMGtEok)
- [10/23/2021 Indy Autonomous Challenge Events](https://www.indyautonomouschallenge.com/indy-autonomous-challenge-announces-events-currently-scheduled-for-october-23-2021-at-the-indianapolis-motor-speedway)
- [12/11/2021 Robots on Ice](https://www.robotsonice.org/)

# News

- [iMAP Implicit Mapping and Positioning in Real-Time](https://edgarsucar.github.io/iMAP/)
- [Robotics Gets A Jolt From An Open Robotics-Nvidia Partnership](https://www.forbes.com/sites/tiriasresearch/2021/09/22/robotics-gets-a-jolt-from-an-open-robotics-nvidia-partnership/?sh=1501d1c9141c)
- [How NVIDIA, Open Robotics are improving ROS 2](https://www.therobotreport.com/how-nvidia-open-robotics-improving-ros-2/)
- [New Addition Packt ROS Book](https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-ROS-Robotics-Programming-troubleshooting/dp/1801071020/)
- [NVIDIA AI Perception Coming to ROS Developers](https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-ai-perception-coming-to-ros-developers/?ncid=so-nvsh-329647-p05#cid=em09_so-nvsh_en-us)
- [OpenDog V3 Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXA_KeuYpCY)
- [DARPA SubT Final: How It Works and How to Watch](https://spectrum.ieee.org/darpa-subterranean-finals-how-to-watch)
- [Sony Event Camera Promo Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xOmo7Ikwzk)
- [Spotlight: Ryan Govostes on Exploring a New Frontier with Foxglove Studio](https://foxglove.dev/blog/spotlight-ryan-govostes-software-engineer-at-WHOI)
- [DARPA SubT Meet the Teams](https://spectrum.ieee.org/darpa-subterranean-challenge)
- [Scaling up Synthetic Supervision for Computer Vision](https://medium.com/toyotaresearch/scaling-up-synthetic-supervision-for-computer-vision-902689d16216)
- [Ryan Gariepy on Sense Think Act](https://www.sensethinkact.com/episodes/3-ryan-gariepy)
- [Blue and White Robotics Raises $37M](https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-autonomous-farming-co-blue-white-robotics-raises-37m-1001385299)
- [Nvidia cosies up to Open Robotics for hardware-accelerated ROS](https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/22/nvidia_open_robotics/)
- [Iron Ox Closes $53M Round](https://ironox.com/leading-ag-tech-startup-iron-ox-closes-53-million-investment-round-led-by-breakthrough-energy-ventures/)
- [VIPER Landing Site Announced](https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-artemis-rover-to-land-near-nobile-region-of-moon-s-south-pole/)
- [Locus acquires Waypoint](https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2021/09/23/locus-robotics-acquires-waypoint-robotics/46388/)
- [Halo Autonomy Debuts in Las Vegas](https://www.t-mobile.com/news/business/driverless-car-service-powered-by-t-mobile-5g)

# ROS

- [DIY ROS2 robots (2WD, 4WD, Mecanum Drive)](https://github.com/linorobot/linorobot2)
- [micro-ROS port to Kakute F7 AIO V1.5 Holybro](http://discourse.ros.org/t/micro-ros-port-to-kakute-f7-aio-v1-5-holybro/22402?u=mamerlan)
- [How to build ZED 2i Camera x ROS2 Foxy x Nvidia Jetson x Ubuntu 18.04 via Docker](https://dev.to/circleoncircles/how-to-build-zed-2i-camera-x-ros2-foxy-x-nvidia-jetson-x-ubuntu-18-04-via-docker-8o4)
- [Unity URDF Importer](https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/URDF-Importer)
- [New Galactic Geochelone](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-packages-for-galactic-geochelone-2021-09-20/22374)
- [Unity + ROS 2 Foxy + Docker + NAV 2 Example](https://github.com/hodgespodge/foxy-unity-docker)
- [ROS 2 RMW Over Email](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-2-over-email-rmw-email-an-rmw-implementation/22360)
- [ROS and ROS2 Navigation Stacks: A performance review](https://medium.com/black-coffee-robotics/ros-and-ros2-navigation-stacks-a-performance-review-facb4d6c15a1)
- [New ROS 2 Video Tutorials](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-ros-2-video-tutorials/22418)
- [Extending yolact\_ros with depth images for real-time 3D instance segmentation](http://discourse.ros.org/t/extending-yolact-ros-with-depth-images-for-real-time-3d-instance-segmentation/22395)
- [Johnny Five Inspired Robot, NE Five, Released!](http://discourse.ros.org/t/johnny-five-inspired-robot-ne-five-released/22330)

# Questions

- [What are some possible difficulties, when migrating a robot driver from ROS1 Kinetic to ROS2 Galactic?](https://answers.ros.org/question/387047/what-are-some-possible-difficulties-when-migrating-a-robot-driver-from-ros1-kinetic-to-ros2-galactic/)
- [Run ros2 node using launch file with delay edit?](https://answers.ros.org/question/387310/run-ros2-node-using-launch-file-with-delay/)
- [PX4 rotation over z axis low yaw\_rate?](https://answers.ros.org/question/387176/px4-rotation-over-z-axis-low-yaw_rate/)

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