# ROS News for the Week of January 16th, 2023

**URL:** <https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-january-16th-2023/29344>\
**Category:** Community News\
**Tags:** weekly-update\
**Created:** [January 20, 2023, 7:22pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-january-16th-2023/29344 "2023-01-20T19:22:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 20, 2023, 7:22pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-january-16th-2023/29344/1 "2023-01-20T19:22:47Z")

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# ROS News for the Week of January 16th, 2023

![hexapod3](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/2X/a/ab865d013d8ec3204909d5378880dc9dba166309.gif)  
[Take a ride on a Giant ROS-based Hexapod](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd8dKY6Ozrg&ab_channel=HacksmithIndustries)

  

![resized](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/2X/5/59849ada95a62aef3049548560cabf464d1567b4.gif)  
[TermViz: ROS Visualization in the Terminal](https://github.com/carzum/termviz)

  

![roomac_manipulation_navigation](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/2X/8/89c8d4ebba83cd3d10cac47e0219d8a92eeecc3d.gif)  
[Check out Roomac - a general-purpose personal robot.](http://discourse.ros.org/t/roomac-general-purpose-personal-robot-construction-fetch-a-bottle-demo-application/29272)

# Events

- [2023-01-25 ROS-Industrial Ready Training](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ros2-industrial-online-training-jan-25-27/29166)
- [2023-01-25 January Gazebo Community Meeting (this meeting will not be recorded)](https://community.gazebosim.org/t/community-meeting-cloud-simulation-january-2023/1737)
- [2023-01-26 MoveIt Maintainer Meeting](http://discourse.ros.org/t/manipulation-wg-moveit-maintainer-meeting-jan-26/29170)
- [2023-02-01 ROS Meetup Munich, Germany](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-meetup-munchen-01-02-2022-call-for-talks/28949)
- [2023-06-02 ICRA Robot Wrestling Competition](http://discourse.ros.org/t/icra-2023-simulated-humanoid-robot-wrestling-competition/29268)
- [2023-07-04 → 2023-07-05 ROScon France in Bordeaux](http://discourse.ros.org/t/rosconfr-2023-a-bordeaux-pendant-robocup/29181)
- [2023-09-26 ROSCon JP](http://discourse.ros.org/t/roscon-jp-2023-in/29296)

# News

- [Take a ride on a Giant ROS-based Hexapod](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd8dKY6Ozrg&ab_channel=HacksmithIndustries)
- [ROS-based Autonomous Zamboni Machine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjAbvGQBUPA&ab_channel=PittsburghPenguins)
- [“Insect Nose”: The robot uses grasshopper antennae to smell](https://techaint.com/2023/01/18/insect-nose-the-robot-uses-grasshopper-antennae-to-smell/)
- [WSJ Drone Boats: Inside the U.S. Navy’s Latest Unmanned AI Tech](https://www.wsj.com/video/series/shelby-holliday/drone-boats-inside-the-us-navys-latest-unmanned-ai-tech/8BDE83A8-DFFC-49E8-9681-2BEEA9F5541F)
- [United Robotics Group GmbH Acquires Robotnik Automation](https://robotnik.eu/united-robotics-group-gmbh-strengthens-ecosystem-of-european-robotics-leaders-with-the-acquisition-of-robotnik-automation-s-l-l/)
- [Outrider Raises $73M Series C for Autonomous Yard Operations](https://www.outrider.ai/press-releases/outrider-raises-73-million-series-c-financing-to-accelerate-the-adoption-of-autonomous-distribution-yard-operations/)
- [Dense Pose from Wifi](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00250)
- [Diffusion-based Generation, Optimization, and Planning in 3D Scenes](https://scenediffuser.github.io/)
- [Multi-Hypothesis AMCL (MH-AMCL)](https://github.com/fmrico/mh_amcl)
- [Building An Automated Image Annotation Tool: PyOpenAnnotate](https://learnopencv.com/building-automated-image-annotation-tool-pyopenannotate/)
- [2022 Conference on Robot Learning Videos](https://corl2022.org/videos/)
- [QuadricSLAM](https://github.com/qcr/quadricslam)
- [NeRF-SLAM: Real-Time Dense Monocular SLAM with Neural Radiance Fields.](https://github.com/ToniRV/NeRF-SLAM)
- [A Deep Dive into Automotive Radar](https://hackaday.com/2023/01/17/take-a-deep-dive-into-a-commodity-automotive-radar-chip/)
- [Segregator: Global Point Cloud Registration with Semantic and Geometric Cues](https://github.com/Pamphlett/Segregator)

# ROS

- [Very Useful ROS License Linter](https://github.com/boschresearch/ros_license_linter)
- [TermViz: ROS Visualization in the Terminal](https://github.com/carzum/termviz)
- [Bookmark it: Official DDS Wiki](https://www.omgwiki.org/ddsf/doku.php)
- [Cartesian Impedance Control: C++ implementation with ros\_control bindings](http://discourse.ros.org/t/cartesian-impedance-control-c-implementation-with-ros-control-bindings/29289)
- [Driver for NDI measurement systems for `ros2_control`](http://discourse.ros.org/t/driver-for-ndi-measurement-systems-for-ros2-control/29287)
- [Roomac - general-purpose personal robot (construction + fetch a bottle demo application)](http://discourse.ros.org/t/roomac-general-purpose-personal-robot-construction-fetch-a-bottle-demo-application/29272)
- [ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group 2022 dissemination report and feedback request](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-2-hardware-acceleration-working-group-2022-dissemination-report-and-feedback-request/29260)
- [Space ROS Working Group Meeting Recording](http://discourse.ros.org/t/space-ros-community-working-group-meeting/29128/20)
- [Maintainer Request: RLDP5 Igus Arm](http://discourse.ros.org/t/neobotix-is-looking-for-maintainers-for-rldp5-igus-arm/29338)
- [Review of ROS Developers Meet-up organised by Acceleration Robotics](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-developers-meet-up-organised-by-acceleration-robotics/29336)
- [Localization for Warehouse Autonomous Robots](https://medium.com/black-coffee-robotics/localization-for-warehouse-autonomous-robots-e89a29a5f936)
- [Social Force Model with TurtleBot3 on Gazebo using ROS 2](https://github.com/koichirokato/gazebo_sfm_tb3_ros2)
- [Integrating Databases and Messaging Protocols with Zenoh](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTDEpMOKFxQ&ab_channel=ZettaScaleTechnology)
- [Publishing and Visualizing ROS 2 Transforms](https://foxglove.dev/blog/publishing-and-visualizing-ros2-transforms)
- [Supercharging the Kernels - The Mission Behind the ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9YpbtLOkvk&ab_channel=PX4Autopilot-OpenSourceFlightControl.)

# ROS Questions

- [code\_coverage for ROS](https://answers.ros.org/question/411602/code_coverage-for-ros-usage/)
- [How to enable UDP multicast communication?](https://answers.ros.org/question/411498/how-to-enable-udp-multicast-communication/)
- [Transform the map frame into custom global coordinate system?](https://answers.ros.org/question/411584/transform-the-map-frame-into-custom-global-coordinate-system/)

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