# ROS News for the Week of August 26th, 2024 **URL:** https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-august-26th-2024/39410 **Category:** Community News **Created:** [August 30, 2024, 8:12pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-august-26th-2024/39410 "2024-08-30T20:12:31Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Page:** 1

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# ROS News for the Week of August 26th, 2024 ![ionic_tutorial_party](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/f/8/f8af73bfc587cc2bedfbf5341863abbf0734589d.jpeg) [We need your help testing the next Gazebo release!](http://discourse.ros.org/t/gazebo-ionic-test-and-tutorial-party/39390) The Gazebo Ionic Test and Tutorial party kicked off this week. We need all of our Gazebo users to take a moment and test the pre-release binaries. We’re offering our top ten testers free Gazebo swag. 👕 ![ROSConBOF (1)](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/d/0/d01d86178ec6f737ddeb22639ebd9717848b63e2.jpeg) [The ROSCon Birds of Feather session sign up sheet is now live.](http://discourse.ros.org/t/roscon-2024-birds-of-a-feather-sessions-more/39353/7) If you and your friends want a dedicated time and space to meetup we recommend you organize a session. # 🚨 FINAL REMINDER: 2024-09-03T07:00:00Z is the last day to get discounted ROSCon early bird registration. ![ROSBTBSept24](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/e/f/efe8e782cc0bd9bf3e7391088ad7e074facb8e2a.jpeg) [This Thursday, 2024-09-05, we’ve got a ROS By-The-Bay Meetup planned](https://www.meetup.com/ros-by-the-bay/events/303065520/?slug=ros-by-the-bay&eventId=303065520&isFirstPublish=true). Our ROS and Gazebo summer interns will be presenting and we’ll have a really exciting talk about integrating microROS with microPython. ![mola](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/f/0/f04372808d26cab5ff33a800323ce52f8cc1bff9.gif) [As of this week all active ROS 2 versions have binary packages for the MOLA 3D LiDAR odometry, mapping and localization package](http://discourse.ros.org/t/slam-new-3d-lidar-odometry-mapping-and-localization-packages/39364). This is some fantastic work and worth checking out. ![8b14894924da372a598b67a5e0b4d850a214388e_2_690x442](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/e/0/e0d690fad1e15c35e1b11a0a8a2cee7d3082b7f7.png) This week @tomoyafujita introduced an [rsyslog backend for ROS logging](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-2-log-system-meets-rsyslog-and-fluentbit/39280). Not only is this new backend 🚀 rocket fast, it is also super easy to integrate with a bunch of cloud log management systems. # Events - 🆕 [2024-09-05 ROS By-The-Bay](https://www.meetup.com/ros-by-the-bay/events/303065520/?slug=ros-by-the-bay&eventId=303065520&isFirstPublish=true) - [2024-09-09 ROS Industrial APAC meeting](https://zoom.us/meeting/register/vpMscOuprzMrYFYv1IYvMQT3z6SMoIWDCA#/registration) - [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) - [2024-09-17 ROS Meetup in Waterloo Ontario](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-on-event-for-ontario-ros-developers/39228) - [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/) - [2024-10-04 F1Tenth Race at IROS 2024](https://autodrive-ecosystem.github.io/competitions/f1tenth-sim-racing-iros-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) - [2024-12-05 ROSCon India](http://discourse.ros.org/t/roscon-india-2024/39338) # News - [ROSCon Birds of Feather Sessions](http://discourse.ros.org/t/roscon-2024-birds-of-a-feather-sessions-more/39353/7) - [74 Robotics Companies that are Hiring](https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/24/these-74-robotics-companies-are-hiring/) - [New ROS Book in Japanese](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-release-first-ros-2-book-in-japan/10244) - 🆒 [GSoC 2024 Project DAVE Migration and Upgrade](http://discourse.ros.org/t/gsoc-2024-migration-of-project-dave-to-ros-2-and-harmonic-worlds-models-and-plugins/39313) - 🆒 [GSoC 2024: Project DAVE Sonar Simulation](http://discourse.ros.org/t/gsoc-2024-migrating-the-project-dave-and-building-physics-based-sonar-simulation-for-underwater-robotics/39315) - [Open Source Robotics on OpenCV Weekly](https://www.linkedin.com/events/7234283836010807296/comments/) - [Indy Autonomous Challenge AI & Automation Summit](https://www.indyautonomouschallenge.com/indy-autonomous-challenge-to-host-ai-automation-summit) - [Women in Robotics Scholarship](https://bold.org/scholarships/joanne-pransky-celebration-of-women-in-robotics/) - [Awesome Point Cloud Scene Flow](https://github.com/MaxChanger/awesome-point-cloud-scene-flow) - [Drone-assisted Road Gaussian Splatting with Cross-view Uncertainty](https://sainingzhang.github.io/project/uc-gs/) - [DeRO: Dead Reckoning Based on Radar Odometry With Accelerometers Aided for Robot Localization](https://github.com/hoangvietdo/dero?tab=readme-ov-file) - [Luxonis ToF Sensor Calibration](https://discuss.luxonis.com/blog/5268-tof-sensor-update) - [Fieldwork Berry Picking Robot](https://www.therobotreport.com/fieldwork-robotics-unveils-fieldworker-1-robot-efficient-berry-picking/) - [Robot Electricians in Denmark](https://www.therobotreport.com/denmark-eyes-automation-to-address-electrician-shortage/) - [Video Friday](https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-robots-table-tennis) - [Top Programming Languages 2024](https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages-2024) - [How to Glue This to That](https://thistothat.com/) # ROS - 🆒 [WE NEED YOUR HELP: Gazebo Ionic Tutorial Party](http://discourse.ros.org/t/gazebo-ionic-test-and-tutorial-party/39390) - 🆒 [rsyslog Backend for ROS Logging](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-2-log-system-meets-rsyslog-and-fluentbit/39280) - 🆒 [New 3D LiDAR odometry, mapping and localization packages](http://discourse.ros.org/t/slam-new-3d-lidar-odometry-mapping-and-localization-packages/39364) - [September 2024 Meetings Aerial Robotics](http://discourse.ros.org/t/september-2024-meetings-aerial-robotics-back-from-summer/39383) - [62 New and 407 Updated Packages for Humble](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-packages-for-humble-hawksbill-2024-08-28/39359) - [65 New and 201 Updated Packages for Jazzy](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-packages-for-jazzy-jalisco-2024-08-26/39299) - [Open Navigation X AMD Collab](http://discourse.ros.org/t/amd-x-open-navigation-nav2-open-source-urban-3d-and-indoor-long-duration-demonstrations-using-ryzen-ai/39347) – [Source](https://github.com/open-navigation/opennav_amd_demonstrations) - [Understanding Misconfigurations in ROS: An Empirical Study and Current Approaches](http://discourse.ros.org/t/understanding-misconfigurations-in-ros-an-empirical-study-and-current-approaches/39207) - [A ROS package for the Arduino Nicla Vision board](https://github.com/ADVRHumanoids/nicla_vision_ros) - [Articulate Robotics on Zenoh](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS0_rbQ6KKA) - [Gazebo Classic with Aruco Markers](https://github.com/karim7tr/Experimental_Robotics_assignment_1) - [FZI/KIT: Efficient Edge AI: Deploying Convolutional Neural Networks on FPGA with the Gemmini Accelerator](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.07404) - [LIDAR Place Recognition](https://github.com/hogyun2/awesome-lidar-place-recognition) - [The MIKRIK Project Delivers an Accessible Platform for ROS and ROS 2 Robots, with Visual SLAM](https://www.hackster.io/news/the-mikrik-project-delivers-an-accessible-platform-for-ros-and-ros-2-robots-with-visual-slam-a585da40307a) - [Lenny’s ROS 2 Tutorial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtXowH_eWxI) - [Accurate Prior-centric Monocular Positioning with Offline LiDAR Fusion](https://github.com/David-Willo/APMP) - [How I Set Up ROS 2 on My MacBook Using Docker Without Losing My Sanity](https://medium.com/@arohanaday/how-i-set-up-ros-2-on-my-macbook-using-docker-without-losing-my-sanity-fe6e55857cc2) - [Drone simulation environment setup (PX4, ROS2, gazebo)](https://medium.com/@kazuyahirotsu/drone-simulation-environment-setup-px4-ros-89314a3fba42) - [YOLO V10](https://github.com/THU-MIG/yolov10) # Got some time this weekend? 🕰 [We need your help testing the next Gazebo release!](http://discourse.ros.org/t/gazebo-ionic-test-and-tutorial-party/39390) It shouldn’t take you more than an hour to run a Gazebo test, and it really helps us make sure Ionic is ready to go!