# ROS News for the Week of August 12th, 2024

**URL:** https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-august-12th-2024/39151
**Category:** Community News
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**Created:** [August 16, 2024, 5:07pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-august-12th-2024/39151 "2024-08-16T17:07:11Z")
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# ROS News for the Week of August 12th, 2024
  

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[This week the Open-RMF team released a new version of Open-RMF for ROS 2 Jazzy Jalisco](http://discourse.ros.org/t/open-rmf-released-for-ros-2-jazzy-jalisco/39136) . There’s a lot of great new features in this release, including a slick web front end.

  

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Save the date! On [2024-08-29 we’re planning to kickoff our Gazebo Ionic Test and Tutorial Party.](http://discourse.ros.org/t/save-the-date-gazebo-ionic-tutorial-party/39098)

  

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@RobRoyce over at [NASA JPL released ROSA, an AI agent framework work with ROS-based system](http://discourse.ros.org/t/nasa-jpl-has-open-sourced-rosa-an-ai-agent-designed-to-interact-with-ros-based-systems-using-natural-language-queries/39075). 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.](https://roscon.ros.org/2024/#location) 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](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ubucon-latin-america-2024-llamado-a-conferencias-y-talleres/37844)
- [2024-08-27 Pittsburgh Robotics Happy Hour](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/robotics-and-tech-happy-hour-tickets-925963440577?aff=oddtdtcreator)
- [2024-08-28 Gazebo Community Meeting: Andino w/ Franco Cipollone of Ekumen](https://community.gazebosim.org/t/community-meeting-andino-democratizing-robotics-with-an-affordable-educational-robot-and-open-source-technologies/2952)
- [2024-08-29 Gazebo Ionic Tutorial Party](http://discourse.ros.org/t/save-the-date-gazebo-ionic-tutorial-party/39098)
- [2024-09-07 Silicon Valley Robotics Robot Block Party](https://www.meetup.com/Silicon-Valley-Robotics/events/299742839/)
- [2024-09-16 F1Tenth @ IEEE Smart Mobility](https://sm2024-race.f1tenth.org/)
- [2024-09-17 → 2024-09-18 Control of a mobile robot and motion planning using ROS 2 (Japan)](https://www.rsj.or.jp/event/seminar/news/2024/s156.html)
- [2024-09-18 Foxglove Actuate San Francisco](https://actuate.foxglove.dev/?utm_campaign=actuate+summit&utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social)
- [2024-09-19 ==\> 2024-09-20 ROSCon Spain](https://roscon.org.es/ROSConES2024.html)
- [2024-09-05 ICRA 2025 Tutorial / Workshop CFP Deadline](https://2025.ieee-icra.org/announcements/workshops-tutorials-proposals/)
- [2024-09-18 ROS Meetup Stuttgart](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-meetup-stuttgart-fraunhofer-ipa/39107/2)
- [2024-09-19 ROS Meetup Colombia](http://discourse.ros.org/t/primera-ros-meetup-en-colombia-el-19-de-septiembre/39095)
- [2024-09-19 ROS Meetup Argentina](http://discourse.ros.org/t/primera-ros-meetup-en-argentina-el-19-septiembre/39082)
- [2024-09-25 ROSConJP](https://roscon.jp/2024/)
- [2024-10-21 → 2024-10-24 ROSCon 2024 in Odense, Denmark](https://roscon.ros.org/2024/)
- [2024-10-22 → 2024-10-24 AgRobot FIRA in Sacramento](https://fira-usa.com/)
- [2024-10-24 → 2024-10-25 ROS Industrial Conference EU in Odense](https://rosindustrial.org/events/2024/ros-industrial-conference-2024)
- [2024-10-23 → 2024-10-25 16th International Conference on Social Robotics +AI](https://icsr2024.dk/)
- [2024-11-02 → 2024-11-03 ROSCon China in Shenzhen](http://roscon.roseducation.org.cn/2024/en/)
- [2024-11-6 → 2024-11-7 ROS-Industrial APAC Summit](https://www.eventbrite.sg/e/ros-industrial-consortium-asia-pacific-annual-summit-2024-tickets-906578319157?aff=oddtdtcreator)
- [2024-12-03 ROSCon Germany](http://discourse.ros.org/t/roscon-de-2024-ankundigung/37854)

# News

- [Save the Date: Gazebo Ionic Tutorial Party](http://discourse.ros.org/t/save-the-date-gazebo-ionic-tutorial-party/39098)
- [RSS 2024 Talk Recordings Play List](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLG0LjilbrcCZ2gMopdqJc2_TeO9fSsw-s)
- [Amazon Might Acquire Covariant](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/robot-software-maker-covariant-gets-004603298.html)
- [Waymo Causes Even More Problems in San Francisco](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvs0K1LG1ac)
- [Massage Robots in NYTimes](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/09/well/massage-robot.html)
- [Launch of Gazebo Project Management Community](http://discourse.ros.org/t/launch-of-gazebo-project-management-committee-meetings/39069)
- [Awesome 3D Robotics List](https://github.com/zubair-irshad/Awesome-Robotics-3D)
- [Aerial Robot Inspection Challenge at IROS 2024](https://www.iros2024-cartin.com/program.html)
- [ROS DDS Training @ Construct](http://discourse.ros.org/t/dds-for-robotics-intensive-training-sep-16-18/38982)
- [Anensus Surgical / Karl Storz Merger Update](https://www.therobotreport.com/asensus-surgical-file-bankruptcy-if-karl-storz-merger-fails/)
- [Recent ARM Institute Projects](https://www.therobotreport.com/6-new-technology-projects-get-arm-institute-funding/)
- [Chinese Fire Fighting Robot](https://www.therobotreport.com/kt-500-robot-clears-fire-breaks-help-firefighters-control-wildfires/)
- [NeRF for Fruit Picking Robots](https://huggingface.co/papers/2408.06190)
- [Track Any Point Minimal Model](https://github.com/ibaiGorordo/Tapir-Pytorch-Inference)

# ROS

- [Open-RMF Released for ROS 2 Jazzy Jalisco](http://discourse.ros.org/t/open-rmf-released-for-ros-2-jazzy-jalisco/39136)
- [Open-RMF Fleet Adapter for Andino Robot](https://github.com/Ekumen-OS/andino_rmf)
- [Vector Pursuit: Controller Plugin for ROS2 Navigation](http://discourse.ros.org/t/vector-pursuit-controller-plugin-for-ros2-navigation/39115/1)
- [Current State of Rust and ROS 🦀](http://discourse.ros.org/t/current-state-of-rust-client-libraries-which-one-to-use-ros2-client-rus2-ros2-rust-rclrust-rosrust-or-r2r/39119)
- [New Nav2 Loopback Simulator](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-nav2-loopback-simulator/39038)
- [NASA JPL ROSA AI Agent Framework](http://discourse.ros.org/t/nasa-jpl-has-open-sourced-rosa-an-ai-agent-designed-to-interact-with-ros-based-systems-using-natural-language-queries/39075)
- [ARK Electronics ROS 2 / PX4 Example Workspace](https://github.com/ARK-Electronics/px4_ros2_examples_ws) – [Demo Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw24kesfpLw)
- [9 New and 142 Updated Packages for ROS 2 Iron Irwini](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-packages-for-iron-irwini-2024-08-09/39034)
- [How to Upgrade from Gazebo Classic to Modern Gazebo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVe2u_2igkc)
- [ROS ModBus Hardware Interface](https://github.com/StoglRobotics/modbus_hardware_interface)
- [How to install ROS on RaspberryPi 5 with Zero Fuss](https://www.hackster.io/news/dr-footleg-s-guide-gets-your-ros-2-raspberry-pi-5-project-up-and-running-with-zero-fuss-cc889bdabe69)
- [ROS 2 Nano LLM for NVIDIA hardware](https://www.jetson-ai-lab.com/ros.html)
- [ROS 2 Sim-to-Real Robot Control](https://github.com/IFRA-Cranfield/ros2_SimRealRobotControl)
- [Robotec Multi-Agent Gen AI package for ROS 2](https://github.com/RobotecAI/rai)
- [Enhancing Robotic Navigation with AprilTag Detection](https://medium.com/@kabilankb2003/enhancing-robotic-navigation-with-apriltag-detection-integrating-nvidia-isaac-sim-and-isaac-ros-d889f3caf484)
- [YOLOX-ROS 0.4.0](https://github.com/Ar-Ray-code/YOLOX-ROS/releases/tag/v0.4.0)
- [Voxel SLAM](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00343)

# Want to Help Out?

Did you know that there is ROS documentation on how to write ROS documentation? ROS Docs on writing ROS docs using `rosdoc`. You don’t need to be an expert to write ROS documentation! All you is the determination to try something new and write about it.

> **[Contributing to ROS 2 Documentation — ROS 2 Documentation: Jazzy documentation](https://docs.ros.org/en/jazzy/The-ROS2-Project/Contributing/Contributing-To-ROS-2-Documentation.html)**