ROS News for the Week of August 12th, 2024
This week the Open-RMF team released a new version of Open-RMF for ROS 2 Jazzy Jalisco . There’s a lot of great new features in this release, including a slick web front end.
Save the date! On 2024-08-29 we’re planning to kickoff our Gazebo Ionic Test and Tutorial Party.

@RobRoyce over at NASA JPL released ROSA, an AI agent framework work with ROS-based system. This is one small step for ROS running on a Moon or Mars mission
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It is time to start planning for ROSCon. You have until 2024-09-03T07:00:00Z, a little over two weeks away, to purchase early bird ROSCon tickets. Early bird tickets come with a $100 discount, which just so happens to be the cost to attend a ROSCon workshop. If you are new to ROS / ROSCon, don’t worry! We’re putting together an introductory ROS workshop for our newest community members.
We have but a handful of ROSCon sponsorship slots available, so if your organization wants to have a booth at the event it is now or never!
Events
- 2024-08-16 => 2024-08-17 Ubucon Latin America
- 2024-08-27 Pittsburgh Robotics Happy Hour
- 2024-08-28 Gazebo Community Meeting: Andino w/ Franco Cipollone of Ekumen
- 2024-08-29 Gazebo Ionic Tutorial Party
- 2024-09-07 Silicon Valley Robotics Robot Block Party
- 2024-09-16 F1Tenth @ IEEE Smart Mobility
- 2024-09-17 → 2024-09-18 Control of a mobile robot and motion planning using ROS 2 (Japan)
- 2024-09-18 Foxglove Actuate San Francisco
- 2024-09-19 ==> 2024-09-20 ROSCon Spain
- 2024-09-05 ICRA 2025 Tutorial / Workshop CFP Deadline
- 2024-09-18 ROS Meetup Stuttgart
- 2024-09-19 ROS Meetup Colombia
- 2024-09-19 ROS Meetup Argentina
- 2024-09-25 ROSConJP
- 2024-10-21 → 2024-10-24 ROSCon 2024 in Odense, Denmark
- 2024-10-22 → 2024-10-24 AgRobot FIRA in Sacramento
- 2024-10-24 → 2024-10-25 ROS Industrial Conference EU in Odense
- 2024-10-23 → 2024-10-25 16th International Conference on Social Robotics +AI
- 2024-11-02 → 2024-11-03 ROSCon China in Shenzhen
- 2024-11-6 → 2024-11-7 ROS-Industrial APAC Summit
- 2024-12-03 ROSCon Germany
News
- Save the Date: Gazebo Ionic Tutorial Party
- RSS 2024 Talk Recordings Play List
- Amazon Might Acquire Covariant
- Waymo Causes Even More Problems in San Francisco
- Massage Robots in NYTimes
- Launch of Gazebo Project Management Community
- Awesome 3D Robotics List
- Aerial Robot Inspection Challenge at IROS 2024
- ROS DDS Training @ Construct
- Anensus Surgical / Karl Storz Merger Update
- Recent ARM Institute Projects
- Chinese Fire Fighting Robot
- NeRF for Fruit Picking Robots
- Track Any Point Minimal Model
ROS
- Open-RMF Released for ROS 2 Jazzy Jalisco
- Open-RMF Fleet Adapter for Andino Robot
- Vector Pursuit: Controller Plugin for ROS2 Navigation
- Current State of Rust and ROS

- New Nav2 Loopback Simulator
- NASA JPL ROSA AI Agent Framework
- ARK Electronics ROS 2 / PX4 Example Workspace – Demo Video
- 9 New and 142 Updated Packages for ROS 2 Iron Irwini
- How to Upgrade from Gazebo Classic to Modern Gazebo
- ROS ModBus Hardware Interface
- How to install ROS on RaspberryPi 5 with Zero Fuss
- ROS 2 Nano LLM for NVIDIA hardware
- ROS 2 Sim-to-Real Robot Control
- Robotec Multi-Agent Gen AI package for ROS 2
- Enhancing Robotic Navigation with AprilTag Detection
- YOLOX-ROS 0.4.0
- Voxel SLAM
Want to Help Out?
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