# ROS News for the Week of February 19th, 2024
**URL:** https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-february-19th-2024/36297
**Category:** Community News
**Tags:** weekly-update
**Created:** [February 23, 2024, 11:13pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-february-19th-2024/36297 "2024-02-23T23:13:39Z")
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### Author:  [@Katherine\_Scott](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/Katherine_Scott)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2024, 11:13pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-february-19th-2024/36297/1 "2024-02-23T23:13:39Z")
# ROS News for the Week of February 19th, 2024
[Open Robotics will be participating in Google Summer of Code 2024.](http://discourse.ros.org/t/attention-students-open-robotics-google-summer-of-code-2024-projects/36271) We’re looking for a few interns to help us out! See the post for all the details.
[Our next Gazebo Community meeting is next Wednesday, February 28th.](https://community.gazebosim.org/t/community-meeting-pan-african-robotics-competition-parc/2564) Sikiru Salau, a competitor in the [Pan-African Robotics Competition](https://parcrobotics.org/), will be joining us to talk about simulating robots for agriculture.
Hello Robot is having a great month! Last week they released their [third gen robot](https://hello-robot.com/stretch-3-whats-new). This week they are at the top of the [orange website](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39483482) with [this “OK Robot” paper from NYU](https://ok-robot.github.io)
[Check out the AutoNav robot by Jatin Patil.](https://github.com/JatinPatil2003/AutoNav) Hats off to the developer, this is a really well put together personal project!
Just a reminder: [Gazebo Classic goes End-Of-Life in January 2025 and ROS 2 Jazzy will not support Gazebo Classic.](http://discourse.ros.org/t/gazebo-classic-end-of-life-ros-2-jazzy/36239) We put together some guidance for those of you that need to make the switch!
# Events
- [February Aerial Robotics Meetings](http://discourse.ros.org/t/february-2024-meetings-aerial-robotics/35981)
- [2024-02-28 Gazebo Community Meeting wsg Sikiru Salau of Pan-African Robotics Competition](https://community.gazebosim.org/t/community-meeting-pan-african-robotics-competition-parc/2564)
- [2024-03-06 Boulder is for Robots Meetup](https://www.meetup.com/boulderisforrobots/events/299280969/)
- [2024-03-14 TU Delft ROS MOOC (FREE!)](https://online-learning.tudelft.nl/courses/hello-real-world-with-ros-robot-operating-systems/)
- [2024-03-27 ROS Industrial Annual Meeting](https://rosindustrial.org/events/2024/ros-industrial-consortium-americas-2024-annual-meeting)
- [2024-03-27 Robotics Happy Hour Pittsburgh](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/robotics-and-tech-happy-hour-tickets-835278218637?aff=soc)
- [2024-04-21 Robots on Ice](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/robots-on-ice-40-2024-tickets-815030266467)
- [2024-05-03 Open Hardware Summit Montreal](https://2024.oshwa.org/)
- [2024-05-13 Bots & Bento @ ICRA 2024](https://www.tum-venture-labs.de/education/bots-bento-the-first-robotic-pallet-handler-competition-icra-2024/)
- [2024-06-04 → 2024-06-08 ACM SIGSOFT Summer School on Software Engineering for Robotics](http://discourse.ros.org/t/acm-sigsoft-summer-school-on-software-engineering-for-robotics-in-brussels/35992)
- [2024-06-?? Workshop on Agriculture Vision at CVPR 2024](https://www.agriculture-vision.com/)
- [2024-06-16 Food Topping Challenge at ICRA 2024](https://icra2024.rt-net.jp/archives/87)
- [2024-06-19 =\> 2024-06-20 ROSCon France](http://discourse.ros.org/t/roscon-france-2024/35222)
- [2024-08-05 Autonomous Systems Bootcam at Univ. Deleware](https://sites.udel.edu/ceoe-able/able-summer-bootcamp/)– [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ETDsBN2o8M)
- [2024-09-25 ROSConJP](https://roscon.jp/2024/)
# News
- [MoveIt Pro Released](http://discourse.ros.org/t/announcing-moveit-pro-runtime-and-developer-platform-previously-moveit-studio/36235) – [The Robot Report](https://www.therobotreport.com/picknik-robotics-moveit-studio-is-now-moveit-pro/)
- [Intuitive Machines Lands on the Moon!](https://www.therobotreport.com/intuitive-machines-odysseus-makes-first-us-lunar-landing-50-years/) – [IEEE Spectrum](https://spectrum.ieee.org/lunar-landing-intuitive-machines)
- [SWRI’s Novel Lunar Rover Navigation System](https://www.swri.org/industry/industrial-robotics-automation/blog/unveiling-novel-lunar-rover-navigation)
- [YOLO v. 9 Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13616)–[Source](https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9)
- [Real Time S-Graphs for Robot Pose](https://github.com/snt-arg/lidar_s_graphs/) – [Paper](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10168233)
- [Influence of Camera-LiDAR Configuration on 3D Object Detection for Autonomous Driving](https://github.com/ywyeli/lidar-camera-placement)
- [An open, modular framework for zero-shot, language conditioned pick-and-drop tasks in arbitrary homes.](https://ok-robot.github.io/)
- [DINOBot: Robot Manipulation via Retrieval and Alignment with Vision Foundation Models](https://www.robot-learning.uk/dinobot)
- [Cool: Fit-NGP: Fitting Object Models to Neural Graphics Primitives](https://marwan99.github.io/Fit-NGP/) – [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ7yH_em3Qg)
- [Khronos: Spatio-Temporal Metric-Semantic SLAM](https://github.com/MIT-SPARK/Khronos)
- [VisFusion: Visibility-aware Online 3D Scene Reconstruction from Videos](https://github.com/huiyu-gao/VisFusion)
- [Lidar With Velocity: Correcting Moving Objects Point Cloud Distortion From Oscillating Scanning Lidars by Fusion With Camera](https://github.com/ISEE-Technology/lidar-with-velocity)
- [Dutch startup Monumental is using robots to lay bricks](https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/17/dutch-startup-monumental-is-using-robots-to-lay-bricks/)
- [Olis and Kawasaki Land Ink Deal for Remote Support](https://www.therobotreport.com/olis-robotics-and-kawasaki-partner-to-offer-remote-troubleshooting/)
- [Video Friday](https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-pedipulate)
# ROS
- [Open Robotics @ GSoC 2024](http://discourse.ros.org/t/attention-students-open-robotics-google-summer-of-code-2024-projects/36271)
- [Gazebo Classic End-Of-Life and ROS 2 Jazzy](http://discourse.ros.org/t/gazebo-classic-end-of-life-ros-2-jazzy/36239)
- [42 New and 280 Updated Packages for Humble](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-packages-and-patch-release-for-humble-hawksbill-2024-02-22/36275)
- [2 New and 75 Updated Packages for Iron](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-packages-for-iron-irwini-2024-02-23/36283)
- [0 New and 136 Updated Packages for Noetic](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-packages-for-noetic-2024-02-22/36273)
- [ROS 2 Migration Guide using TurtleBot 2](http://discourse.ros.org/t/migrating-turtlebot-2-to-ros-2/36225)
- [REP Proposal: Coordinate Frames for Maritime Robots](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-ros-enhancement-proposal-for-marine-robotics/36218/5)
- [ROS 2 DJI Drone PSDK Bridge](http://discourse.ros.org/t/introducing-psdk-ros2-bridging-djis-psdk-libraries-with-ros-2/33500)
- [Learn ROS 2 with LIMO Robot](http://discourse.ros.org/t/learn-ros2-with-a-limo-robot-ros-developers-openclass-182/36287)
- [Highlights from NVIDIA GTC for ROS Developers](http://discourse.ros.org/t/gtc-march-18-21-highlights-for-ros-ai-robotics/36274)
- [Handle Unique Paramers for Robot Instances](http://discourse.ros.org/t/handle-unique-parameters-for-robot-instances/36074)
- [Thoughts on Websockets with ROS Messaging](http://discourse.ros.org/t/we-use-websockets-and-ros-messaging-together-in-our-robot-software-stack-should-you/36199)
- [Maritime Robotics Working Group wsg HoloOcean](https://vimeo.com/915293743)
- [Plot Juggler 3.9.1 Release](http://discourse.ros.org/t/plotjuggler-3-9-1-is-out-and-few-more-things-you-should-know/36210)
- [Devops for Robotics Certificate Training](http://discourse.ros.org/t/devops-for-robotics-certificate-training-in-barcelona-spain-march-20-22-2024/36213)
- [Rolling out 24.04 for Rolling](http://discourse.ros.org/t/preparing-ros-2-rolling-for-the-transition-to-ubuntu-24-04/35673)
- [MCAP File Editor from @facontidavide](http://discourse.ros.org/t/mcap-file-editor-gui-in-your-browser/36198)
- [Diff Drive ROS 2 Robot with ESP32](https://www.hackster.io/aal-shaji/differential-drive-robot-using-ros2-and-esp32-aae289)
- [Swerve Drive Motor Limitations](https://www.petrikvandervelde.nl/posts/Swerve-drive-motor-limitations) ← This personal blog is 💯
- [New AutoNav ROS Robot](https://github.com/JatinPatil2003/AutoNav) – [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5LXZQY55DI)
- [ROS Intro Workshop @ Purdue](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz1fanH58kg) – [Materials](https://ivory-sale-974.notion.site/ARC-ROS-Workshop-2d26d5bcdd69496996806ccf8e5a011b)
- [Robotics at Compile Time: Optimizing Robotics Algorithms With C++'s Compile-Time Features - CppCon23](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6AUsB3RUhA)
- [MyCobot280 for MoveIt](https://github.com/jarain78/mycobot280_movelt2)
- [Ziobot ROS Robot](https://rosmo-robot.github.io/zio/)
# ROS Questions
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### Author:  [@smac](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/smac)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2024, 6:02am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-february-19th-2024/36297/2 "2024-02-24T06:02:45Z")
Don’t forget Nvidia’s newly announced partnership with Open Navigation! I think that’s big news!
> **[NVIDIA and Open Navigation Collaborate to Drive New Frontiers in Mobile Robots](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nvidia-open-navigation-collaborate-drive-new-mobile-amulya-vishwanath-pesqc/?trackingId=1qN86jkFQleBX%2FC%2Bx%2Fv%2BMA%3D%3D)**
>
> Addressing the growing demand for high-performance robots capable of navigating complex environments, NVIDIA is pleased to announce its sponsorship of Open Navigation. This collaboration aims to accelerate the development and adoption of open-source...
Their partnership and support is critical to keep Nav2 healthy and chugging along with new advanced features. Stay tuned for some that are coming out at GTC which are a direct outcome of this partnership that the whole community can leverage!
Thanks to Nvidia and the Isaac team (@HemalShahNV @ggrigor and Dave Elliot)! Its been a pleasure working with you and I look forward to the future!
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### Author:  [@lars](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/lars)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2024, 8:55am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-february-19th-2024/36297/3 "2024-02-24T08:55:43Z")
Great, Nvidia is not only saving the whole US economy, they are also helping with Nav2! 😁
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2024, 8:56am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-february-19th-2024/36297/4 "2024-03-25T08:56:12Z")
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