# ROS News for the week of February 28th, 2022

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# ROS News for the Week of 2/28/2022

[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/d/9/d9b3bb02e57805d4903cec89467f0d38a442adb6.jpeg "Gazebo web app short demo") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C94K0cmmWxg)

Part four of our five part series on DARPA SubT came out this week. [This edition covers Ignition Cloud Sim.](https://www.openrobotics.org/blog/2022/2/3/subt-part-4-cloudsim)[[Part 1]](https://www.openrobotics.org/blog/2022/2/3/open-robotics-and-the-darpa-subterranean-challenge)[[Part 2]](https://www.openrobotics.org/blog/2022/2/3/subt-part-2-robots-and-environments)[[Part 3]](https://www.openrobotics.org/blog/2022/2/3/subt-part-3-the-simulator)

  

![starship](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/2X/e/eecf0a63b3149da63c876b88687338e9c020d156.gif)  
Starship Robotics had a pretty good week overall. [They raised $42M, after just raising $57M](https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/01/starship-technologies-raises-another-42m-to-fuel-the-growth-of-its-fleet-of-self-driving-delivery-robots/?tpcc=tcplustwitter). Last week they announced a [partnership with a California grocery chain](https://mobilerobotguide.com/2022/02/24/starship-launches-grocery-delivery-service-in-bay-area/). Are they ready for prime time? Searching social media yields lots of posts by college students, like this one of a [robot getting hit by a train.](https://twitter.com/WeeklyRobotics/status/1499289460680404994) and [this funeral](https://thegeorgeanne.com/22311/news/students-hold-vigil-for-fallen-starship-food-delivery-robot/) for another fallen robot, or this [traffic jam](https://twitter.com/seanhecht/status/1493432613628825600)

# Events

- [2/28/2022 Pan-African Robotics Competition Applications Due](https://parcrobotics.org/register)
- [3/15/2022 - 3/17/2022 ROS-I Training](https://rosindustrial.org/events/2022/3/15/ros-industrial-training-americas-mar-2022)
- [3/15/2022 - Construction Robotics at Mass Robotics](https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/6980931686229174541)
- [3/22/2022 NVIDIA GTC – Lots of Robot Talks](https://events.rainfocus.com/widget/nvidia/gtcspring2022/16455536662270013aQM?ncid=so-nvsh-604282-vt48)
- [4/22/2022 Open Hardware Summit](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/open-hardware-summit-2022-tickets-267762443677)
- [5/10/2022 - 5/11/2022 Robotics Summit & Expo](https://web.cvent.com/event/bf47cd6e-1344-41f4-a5bd-1dd987846fd3/regProcessStep1?RefId=RSEwebsite)
- [5/23/2022 Workshop On Opportunities and Challenges with Autonomous Racing](https://icra2022.f1tenth.org/)
- [4th International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering 2022](https://rose-workshops.github.io/rose2022/)
- [F1Tenth at ICRA 5/23/2022 → 5/27/2022](https://icra2022-race.f1tenth.org/registration.html)
- [6/22/2022 → 6/23/2022 ROSCon France](http://discourse.ros.org/t/roscon-fr-2022/24257)
- [9/14/2022 → 9/16/2022 We Robot Conference (Robot Ethics)](https://werobot2022.com/call-for-papers/)

# News

- [KiwiBot Raises $7.5M](https://www.therobotreport.com/kiwibot-brings-in-7-5-million-in-pre-series-a-funding/)
- [Cloudsim: The Magic Behind DARPA SubT](https://www.openrobotics.org/blog/2022/2/3/subt-part-4-cloudsim)
- [Gecko Robotics Raises $73M](https://blog.geckorobotics.com/en/press_and_news/73-million-series-c-funding-will-bring-infrastructure-into-the-21st-century?utm_campaign=Series%20C%20Round&utm_content=199855376&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-711790490325094400)
- [Otamatone Robot](https://twitter.com/MaywaDenki/status/1499164461483331585)
- [Autonomous Laptop](https://twitter.com/W_Yoshizaki/status/1158328728067301376)
- [Starship Robot vs. Train](https://twitter.com/WeeklyRobotics/status/1499289460680404994)
- [Starship Technologies raises $42M, after just raising $57M](https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/01/starship-technologies-raises-another-42m-to-fuel-the-growth-of-its-fleet-of-self-driving-delivery-robots/?tpcc=tcplustwitter)
- [Mexico sending five Micro Robots to the Moon](https://www.therobotreport.com/unam-researchers-to-send-micro-robots-to-the-moon/)
- [RL for Detecting Cracks in Concrete](https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/2022/monitoring-bridge-safety)
- [Geometry Learning for Robot Perception and Nav](https://youtu.be/gDPE6x4Zjjs)
- [Mip-NeRF for 360 View Synthesis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBSH-k9GbV4&ab_channel=JonBarron)
- [Foxglove V1.2.0](https://github.com/foxglove/studio/releases/tag/v1.2.0)
- [RIOS Raises $28M](https://venturebeat.com/2022/02/22/rios-a-startup-developing-robots-that-can-grasp-objects-has-raised-28-million/)
- [ZDNet on Visual Teach and Repeat out of UC Berkeley](https://www.zdnet.com/article/uc-berkeley-robot-navigation-could-chart-a-new-course-for-self-driving-systems/)
- [Efficient Multi-Robot SLAM](https://clearpathrobotics.com/blog/2022/03/stevens-institute-of-technology-develops-slam-framework-for-efficient-wireless-robot-communication/)
- [Robot Report Top February Stories](https://www.therobotreport.com/top-10-robotic-stories-of-february-2022/)
- [Mummy Shooting Robot for Agriculture](https://www.roboticsbusinessreview.com/news/insighttrac-autonomously-removes-almond-mummies-with-pellet-gun/)
- [Third Wave and Ouster Partner Up](https://www.thirdwave.ai/post/third-wave-automation-and-ouster)
- [Cookie Robot in San Francisco](https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/treat-vending-robots-at-SF-parks-16975139.php)

# ROS

- [Hardware Interfaces WG First Meeting](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-working-group-proposal-hardware-interface-working-group/23774/22)
- [micro-ROS on RENESAS MCK-RA6T2](http://discourse.ros.org/t/micro-ros-on-renesas-mck-ra6t2-can-fd-bus/24547)
- [What’s the Best ROS 2 Kit Robot](http://discourse.ros.org/t/best-robotics-kit/24539)
- [15 New 96 Updated Packages for Noetic](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-packages-for-noetic-2022-03-02/24544)
- [Graceful Interface Depracation](http://discourse.ros.org/t/how-to-gracefully-deprecate-old-interface-msg-srv-in-favor-of-a-new-interface/24532)
- [Quality Declaration Improvements](http://discourse.ros.org/t/safety-critical-wg-2022-roadmap-quality-declaration-improvements/24518)
- [Behavior Tree Workshop](http://discourse.ros.org/t/announcing-the-1st-behaviortree-workshop-call-for-participation/24514)
- [ROS MOOC from TUDelft](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-mooc-from-tudelft-new-edition-available/24524)
- [Cool New Robot Map Service](http://discourse.ros.org/t/edit-share-and-access-all-maps-in-one-site-motivedge-io/24503)
- [February HAWG Meeting](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXrl4dkBA-4&list=PLf4Fnww4KiFeiP1fNQXgJhyuEI760NVIl&ab_channel=V%C3%ADctorMayoral-Vilches)
- [Big Update to Ignition Citadel, Edifice, Fortress](https://community.gazebosim.org/t/new-ignition-releases-2022-03-01-citadel-edifice-fortress/1313)
- [Ardupilot+Ignition Landing on Vehicle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q09YZCJOteg&ab_channel=AndrewTridgell)
- [Preparing ROS application and simulation containers for AWS RoboMaker](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/robotics/preparing-ros-application-and-simulation-containers-for-aws-robomaker/)
- [Getting Your Robot on ROS 2](https://picknik.ai/ros/robotics/moveit/2022/03/02/createing-a-ros2-driver.html)
- [Nemesis Skid Steer Robot](https://antoan.github.io/Nemesis/)
- [XT Drone Simulator](https://github.com/robin-shaun/XTDrone)
- [A-LOAM LIDAR Odometry and Mapping Package](https://github.com/HKUST-Aerial-Robotics/A-LOAM)
- [Effortlessly Investigating Robot Anomalies at Greenzie](https://www.greenzie.com/post/effortlessly-investigating-robot-anomalies-at-greenzie)
- [YDLidar ROS Packages](https://github.com/YDLIDAR/ydlidar_ros)

# Questions

- [Colors with Xacro](https://answers.ros.org/question/396985/rosgazebo-defining-and-changing-colors-within-a-xacro-file/)
- [How do I configure DWA](https://answers.ros.org/question/397088/configuring-dwa-navigation-correctly/)
- [MoveIt with a Custom Robot](https://answers.ros.org/question/396980/implement-control-real-custom-robot-with-moveit/)

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