# ROS News for the Week of December 11th, 2022

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**Tags:** weekly-update\
**Created:** [December 16, 2022, 8:38pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-december-11th-2022/28812 "2022-12-16T20:38:49Z")\
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# ROS News for the Week of December 11th, 2022

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There is only one story everyone is talking about this week: Alphabet’s Intrinsic has purchased OSRC! I’ve summarized much of that news below:

- [The OSRC Team is Joining Intrinsic and What it Means for the ROS Community](http://discourse.ros.org/t/the-osrc-team-is-joining-intrinsic-and-what-it-means-for-the-ros-community/28764)
- [Alphabet’s Intrinsic Acquires Majority of Open Robotic](https://spectrum.ieee.org/alphabet-intrinsic-open-robotics-acquisition)
- [Q&A: Brian Gerkey and Wendy Tan White on Intrinsic, Open Robotics, and ROS](https://spectrum.ieee.org/brian-gerkey-wendy-tan-white)
- [Building opportunities for the world’s robotics developers](https://intrinsic.ai/blog/posts/building-opportunities-for-the-worlds-robotics-developers/)
- [Is Open Robotics acquisition by Intrinsic a good thing?](https://news.accelerationrobotics.com/is-open-robotics-acquisition-by-intrinsic-a-good-thing/)

_As you can imagine I’ve been a bit preoccupied this week so this week’s news is fairly light. I am going on vacation next week for the holidays so there will be no news updates for the rest of the year. Rest assured I’ll be back the first week of the new year._

# Events

- With the [ROS-I EU meeting wrapping up](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6g1T_Hz8zI&ab_channel=ROS-IConsortium) we seem to be light on events due to the holidays. If you have something planned for early January drop it in the comments below.

# News

- [ROSConJP 2022 Videos and Slides Available](https://roscon.jp/2022/)
- [New “TurtleBot” in Scientific American](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mighty-morphin-turtle-robot-goes-amphibious-by-shifting-leg-shape/)
- [Open Robotics SG featured in The Construct](https://www.theconstructsim.com/107-open-robotics-singapore/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=hootsuite&utm_term=&utm_content=&utm_campaign=9f23c5bb-48f3-44fa-932e-2bd825aa7654)
- [Urban Machine Closes $5.6M Seed Round to Build a Greener Future](https://construction.einnews.com/pr_news/605438698/urban-machine-closes-5-6m-seed-round-to-build-a-greener-future)
- [The Urban Machine Team Is Using Robotics To Reclaim Waste Construction Wood](https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimvinoski/2022/12/08/the-urban-machine-team-is-using-robotics-to-reclaim-waste-construction-wood/?sh=247cbb2e2ff5)
- [VideoDex: Learning Dexterity from Internet Videos](https://video-dex.github.io/)
- [Implementation of RT1 (Robotic Transformer) in Pytorch](https://github.com/lucidrains/robotic-transformer-pytorch)

# ROS

- [52 New and 221 Updated Packages for ROS 2 Humble](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-packages-for-ros-2-humble-hawksbill-2022-12-16/28806)
- [ROS 2 Docs in Other Languages](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-2-documentation-in-other-languages/28811)
- [SMACC demonstrates concurrent control of two arms in ROS2 using MoveIt2 and ros2\_control](http://discourse.ros.org/t/smacc-demonstrates-concurrent-control-of-two-arms-in-ros2-using-moveit2-and-ros2-control/28793)
- [Announcing MOV.AI Flow - visual ROS IDE](http://discourse.ros.org/t/announcing-mov-ai-flow-visual-ros-ide/28756)
- [Synchronized syncs?](http://discourse.ros.org/t/synchronized-syncs/28782)
- [2023 Robotics Developer MasterClass enrolment is now open!](http://discourse.ros.org/t/2023-robotics-developer-masterclass-enrolment-is-now-open/28777)
- [Building a Robot with Yocto and ROS from the Yocto Virtual Summit 2022.11](http://discourse.ros.org/t/building-a-robot-with-yocto-and-ros-from-the-yocto-virtual-summit-2022-11/28740)
- [Interesting ROS Project: Blind Buy](https://github.com/Madrid-Arbutus-Bears/blindbuy_oakd)
- [New Tool to Browse All ROS 2 Docs Locally](https://github.com/Serafadam/ros_docsets)
- [ChatGPT: The AI Bot That Programs Robot (ROS2) In Any Language](https://medium.com/@reflectrobotics/chatgpt-the-ai-bot-that-programs-robot-ros2-in-c-5333c3bca522)
- [Goodbye Galactic: Final Galactic Sync (18 New and 182 Updated Packages)](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-packages-for-galactic-geochelone-2022-12-09/28717)
- [ROS-I EU 2022 Conference Live Stream Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6g1T_Hz8zI&ab_channel=ROS-IConsortium)
- [Software engineering research on the Robot Operating System: A systematic mapping study](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0164121222002503?via%3Dihub)
- [Dobot MG400 ROS 2 Repository](https://github.com/HarvestX/MG400_ROS2)
- [A 2-D/3-DOF seamless global/local mobile robot motion planner package for ROS](https://github.com/at-wat/neonavigation)
- [Make RVIZ Festive](http://discourse.ros.org/t/snowbot-operating-system/23585)
- [ROS Bag Filter GUI](https://github.com/tosiyuki/rosbag_filter_gui)

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