# ROS News for the Week of December 15th, 2024

**URL:** https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-december-15th-2024/41220
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**Created:** [December 20, 2024, 8:22pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-december-15th-2024/41220 "2024-12-20T20:22:32Z")
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# ROS News for the Week of December 15th, 2024
  

![xmas](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/b/f/bf0a0df609725377c659b557ae3efb1154654064.gif)  
It is that time of year! Time for robot holiday videos! [IEEE Spectrum has a full run down](https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-holidays-2024). I particularly like the Clearpath Robotics’ video that features multiple TB4 lites acting as elves. 🧝

  

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/1/4/14f37555c16eb7b7446678624cc7d501c81ad891.png)  
New tutorial alert. We just released an official tutorial for the [ament lint CLI utilities.](https://docs.ros.org/en/rolling/Tutorials/Advanced/Ament-Lint-For-Clean-Code.html) If you are not using these tools to clean up your code, you should be!

  

 ![soar_ros_icon_slogan_default](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/5/5/55e323d7fdcb5e9496f9ac19d73a73e70a60901e.svg)  
SOAR is the OG of classic AI! This week we learned about a new package to  
[connect SOAR and ROS 2.](http://discourse.ros.org/t/soar-ros-connecting-soar-and-ros-2-as-a-single-ros-package/41143)

  

 ![opposite_view_loop_closure (1)](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/a/1/a15d90ae25cad032bfb7febac6084344912a0a7f.jpeg)  
This week a team at MIT released [ROMAN an open-set object mapping / global localization package](http://discourse.ros.org/t/roman-ros-2-open-set-object-mapping-global-localization-code-release/41178) along with a ROS 2 wrapper.

  

 ![teaser (2)](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/d/0/d026417e0bb91f5ec4515327c39474c2b8b00282.jpeg)  
Everyone is talking about it! This week a team of 18 universities plus NVIDIA released [Genesis, a generative world for general-purpose robotics & embodied AI learning.](https://github.com/Genesis-Embodied-AI/Genesis) The early demos look impressive. You can learn more at the [project page](https://genesis-embodied-ai.github.io/).

# Events

- [2024-12-22 Open Hardware Summit CFP Deadline](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeiuWtUClyQ2Aj-CBFwZacpfL9xxgG_ZA8ImF0SF9sT2-sqKA/viewform)
- [2024-12-27 ROS Japan UG #57 ROS Year-End LT Event](https://rosjp.connpass.com/event/338471/?utm_campaign=event_participate_to_follower&utm_source=notifications&utm_medium=twitter)
- [2024-12-31 Deadline for Natural Robotics Contest](https://www.naturalroboticscontest.com/)
- [2025-01-08 ROS Embodied AI Community Group](https://github.com/ros-wg-embodied-ai)
- [2025-02-01 FOSDEM 25](https://fosdem.org/2025/) – [See Robotics and Sim Room](http://discourse.ros.org/t/fosdem-2025-robotics-simulation-first-edition/40349)
- [2025-02-04 =\> 2025-02-06 World FIRA Ag Robotics Conference in Toulouse, France](https://world-fira.com/)
- [2025-04-28 International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering](http://discourse.ros.org/t/7th-international-workshop-on-robotics-software-engineering/39901)
- [2025-05-30 =\> 2025-05-31 2025 Open Hardware Summit in Edinburgh](https://2025.oshwa.org/)

# News

- [ROS PMC meeting minutes 2024-12-17](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-pmc-meeting-minutes-2024-12-17/41196)
- [Nav2 Community Meeting - Renewed for 2025](http://discourse.ros.org/t/nav2-community-meeting-renewed-for-2025/41151)
- [Slip Robotics picks up $28M for trailer loading/unloading robots](https://www.therobotreport.com/slip-robotics-picks-up-28m-for-trailer-loading-unloading-robots/)
- [Jetson Orin Nano Super developer kit available from NVIDIA](https://www.therobotreport.com/jetson-orin-nano-super-developer-kit-available/)
- [Eureka Robotics raises $10.5M to scale its vision systems in the U.S.](https://www.therobotreport.com/eureka-robotics-raises-10-5m-scale-its-vision-systems-in-u-s/)
- [ROSCon Spain 2024 Report](http://discourse.ros.org/t/roscon-spain-2024-report/41202)
- [Aerial Robotics meeting - Xmas with Bitcraze](http://discourse.ros.org/t/aerial-robotics-meeting-xmas-with-bitcraze-dec-18-2024/40951)
- [Robot Holiday Videos - IEEE Spectrum](https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-holidays-2024)
- [Zen and the Art of Aibo Engineering](https://spectrum.ieee.org/aibo)
- [Symbotic buys healthcare robot maker OhmniLabs](https://www.therobotreport.com/symbotic-buys-healthcare-robot-maker-ohmnilabs/)
- [Mcity says open-source digital twin enables cheaper autonomous vehicle testing](https://www.therobotreport.com/mcity-open-source-digital-twin-enables-cheaper-av-testing/)
- [Global Robot Density in Factories Doubled in Seven Years - What’s the impact of ROS?](http://discourse.ros.org/t/global-robot-density-in-factories-doubled-in-seven-years-whats-the-impact-of-ros/41123)
- [Red Rabbit Robotics offers human-like robots as a service - The Register](https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/15/red_rabbit_robotics/)
- [Call for Proposals: Arts in Robotics at ICRA’25](https://2025.ieee-icra.org/announcements/call-for-proposals-arts-in-robotics-at-icra25/)
- [Call for Application IEEE IERA Award](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TZ2Zpa6sUq60HLIJMIrmAs2kmC3JYmBo/view)
- [Genesis: A generative world for general-purpose robotics & embodied AI learning.](https://github.com/Genesis-Embodied-AI/Genesis)
- [Open Source Hardware Certifications for November 2024](https://makezine.com/article/technology/open-source/open-source-hardware-certifications-for-november-2024/)
- [VDA5050 in Japanese](https://github.com/hijimasa/VDA5050/blob/release/2.1.0-jp/VDA5050_JP.md)
- [ScanNet++ Dataset](https://kaldir.vc.in.tum.de/scannetpp/)
- [HO-Cap: A Capture System and Dataset for 3D Reconstruction and Pose Tracking of Hand-Object Interaction](https://irvlutd.github.io/HOCap/)
- [Diverse Terrain and Multi-modal Dataset for Multi-Robot Navigation in Multi-session Outdoor Environments](https://sites.google.com/corp/view/diter-plusplus/)
- [Podcast: Making Robot Arms Work Anywhere - with PickNik](https://picknik.ai/2024/12/16/Podcast-Making-Robot-Arms-Work-Anywhere.html)

# ROS

- [🆕 Ament Lint CLI Utilities Tutorial](https://docs.ros.org/en/rolling/Tutorials/Advanced/Ament-Lint-For-Clean-Code.html)
- [Time to give your magnetometers a big refresh!](http://discourse.ros.org/t/time-to-give-your-magnetometers-a-big-refresh/41208)
- [New packages for Humble Hawksbill 2024-12-20](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-packages-for-humble-hawksbill-2024-12-20/41214)
- [New Packages for Noetic 2024-12-19](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-packages-for-noetic-2024-12-19/41203)
- [Teknic ClearPath-SC ros2\_control Hardware Interface](http://discourse.ros.org/t/teknic-clearpath-sc-ros2-control-hardware-interface/39806)
- [How do I use Safe DDS with ROS2 and Why?](http://discourse.ros.org/t/how-do-i-use-safe-dds-with-ros2-and-why/41162)
- [ROS 2 Visualization Tools for Architecture](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-2-visualization-tools-for-architecture/41170)
- [🆒 ROMAN: ROS 2 open-set object mapping / global localization code release](http://discourse.ros.org/t/roman-ros-2-open-set-object-mapping-global-localization-code-release/41178)
- [🆒 Soar\_ros: Connecting Soar and ROS 2 as a single ROS Package](http://discourse.ros.org/t/soar-ros-connecting-soar-and-ros-2-as-a-single-ros-package/41143)
- [Safe DDS Achieves ISO 26262 ASIL D Certification](http://discourse.ros.org/t/safe-dds-achieves-iso-26262-asil-d-certification/41036/6)
- [Introduction to Robot Manipulation and Navigation – University of Texas at Dallas](https://labs.utdallas.edu/irvl/courses/fall-2024-cs-6301/)
- [MASt3R-SLAM: Real-Time Dense SLAM with 3D Reconstruction Priors](https://edexheim.github.io/mast3r-slam/)
- [MATLAB toolkit for generating URDF](http://discourse.ros.org/t/matlab-toolkit-for-generating-urdf/41122)
- [RoboVLMs: What Matters in Building Vision-Language-Action Models for Generalist Robot Policies](https://robovlms.github.io/)
- [ECCV 2024 Better Call SAL: Towards Learning to Segment Anything in Lidar](https://github.com/nv-dvl/segment-anything-lidar)
- [Reference implementation of mROS 2 for ESP32 boards](https://github.com/mROS-base/mros2-esp32)
- [🆒 Raspberry Pi Mouse ROS 2 package has been released](https://rt-net.jp/mobility/archives/27438)
- [Package for Path Planning and Tracking created using ROS 2](https://github.com/abdulkadrtr/ROS2-PurePursuitControl-PathPlanning-Tracking)
- [Marigold-DC: Zero-Shot Monocular Depth Completion with Guided Diffusion](https://marigolddepthcompletion.github.io/)
- [Python sample codes and documents about Autonomous vehicle control algorithm](https://github.com/ShisatoYano/AutonomousVehicleControlBeginnersGuide)
- [Official implementation of αLiDAR: An Adaptive High-Resolution Panoramic LiDAR System](https://github.com/HViktorTsoi/alpha_lidar)
- [CARLA 0.10.0 Release with Unreal Engine 5.5](https://carla.org/2024/12/19/release-0.10.0/)
- [Python implementation of mpc controller for path tracking](https://github.com/mcarfagno/mpc_python)
- [Real-time dense scene reconstruction with SLAM3R](https://github.com/PKU-VCL-3DV/SLAM3R)
- [Unitree RL Gym](https://github.com/unitreerobotics/unitree_rl_gym)
- [RAL24: Semantic Graph-Guided Coarse-Fine-Refine Full Loop Closing for LiDAR SLAM](https://github.com/nubot-nudt/SGLC)
- [ROBOTIS-OP3-Common jazzy-devel](https://github.com/ROBOTIS-GIT/ROBOTIS-OP3-Common/tree/jazzy-devel)
- [NIDS-Net: A unified framework for novel instance detection and segmentation](https://github.com/YoungSean/NIDS-Net)
- [Robust model predictive control for path tracking with obstacle avoidance](https://github.com/taewankim1/robust_mpc_obstacle_avoidance)
- [Extending the Robustness of LiDAR SLAM to Geometrically Degenerate Scenarios](https://github.com/PengYu-Team/GEODE_dataset)
- [SIMD-Accelerated Sampling-based Motion Planning](https://github.com/KavrakiLab/vamp)
- [Very fast motion planning for articulated robot (C++ core with Python bindings)](https://github.com/HiroIshida/plainmp)
- [Python implementation of an automatic parallel parking system](https://github.com/Pandas-Team/Automatic-Parking)
- [IROS’24 Simultaneous Exploration and Photographing with Heterogeneous UAVs for Fast Autonomous Reconstruction](https://github.com/SYSU-STAR/SOAR)
- [Example repository for autonomous behaviors using TurtleBot robots and behavior trees](https://github.com/sea-bass/turtlebot3_behavior_demos)
- [Micro ROS and Web UI with ROS 2 and Jetson Orin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxI4LXnXmr8)
- [Conformal Off-Policy Prediction for Multi-Agent Systems](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16871)

# Got a Minute? 🕰 🎁

It is the holidays and everyone has some extra free time. Why not give the gift of open source and [review a pull request or fix an issue in ROS 2](https://github.com/orgs/ros2/repositories)?