# ROS News for the week of January 3rd, 2022

**URL:** <https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-january-3rd-2022/23722>\
**Category:** Community News\
**Tags:** weekly-update\
**Created:** [January 7, 2022, 8:43pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-january-3rd-2022/23722 "2022-01-07T20:43:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 7, 2022, 8:43pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-january-3rd-2022/23722/1 "2022-01-07T20:43:40Z")

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# ROS News for the Week of January 3rd, 2022
  

![iac2](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/2X/c/cd57090b08bfcaf4c231e8269605743045560c72.gif)  
LIVE! Right Now! [Indy Autonomous Challenge at CES](https://www.twitch.tv/indyachallenge)

  

 ![ces-logo](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/2X/2/267f543b07042f735baa36b71d7531b87a5defd5.png)  
It is CES 2022 this week. There were a ton of big announcements. [Melonee Wise has done a great job documenting all of the robots at the event.](https://twitter.com/meloneewise)

  

# Events

- [TODAY! 4:30 EST ROS HAPPY HOUR](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-virtual-happy-hour/23672)
- [🏎 TODAY! NOW! Indy Autonomous Challenge at CES 2022 Live Stream](https://www.indyautonomouschallenge.com/stream)
- [1/16/2022 AWS Robotics / MassRobotics Startup Accelerator Application Due](https://www.massrobotics.org/project/awsroboticsaccelerator/)
- [1/31/2022 MBZIRC White Papers Due](https://www.mbzirc.com/)

# News

- [VRX 2022 Phase 1 Demo Reel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l97bJ7OO0Iw&ab_channel=GazeboSim)
- [Formant Raises $18M](https://venturebeat.com/2022/01/05/formant-raises-18m-to-help-companies-manage-fleets-of-robots/)
- [Doosan Raises $33,7M](https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/05/doosan-announces-33-7m-raise-as-it-introduces-a-robotic-camera-system-at-ces/)
- [Blue Ocean Robotics raises $51M](https://www.therobotreport.com/blue-ocean-robotics-raises-51-million-for-mobile-robots/)
- [NVIDIA announces Isaac AMR platform](https://www.therobotreport.com/nvidia-announces-isaac-amr-platform/?spMailingID=60545&puid=704824&E=704824&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=60545)
- [GM Showcases Autonomous Vehicle at CES](https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/ces-2022-livestreams-watch-gm-samsung-lg-and-more-reveal-events-here/)
- [Sony Announces Car at CES](https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/vision-s/)
- [Labrador Systems Announces new Home Robot at CED](https://labradorsystems.com/labrador-systems-introduces-a-new-generation-of-assistive-robots/)
- [China’s Five Year Plan for Robotics](https://www.therobotreport.com/china-unveils-five-year-plan-for-robotics/)
- [Foxglove Raises $3.7M in Seed Funding](http://discourse.ros.org/t/foxglove-raises-3-7m-in-seed-funding/23668)
- [Awesome Gazebo Contribution Visualization](http://louise.world/sim-contributions/)
- [List of Awesome AI Residencies](https://github.com/dangkhoasdc/awesome-ai-residency)
- [New Ways to Automate with Robotics in 2022](https://www.motoman.com/en-us/about/blog/new-ways-to-automate-with-robotics-in-2022)
- [Video Friday: Welcome to 2022](https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-welcome-to-2022)
- [SPChat Open-Source Speech Recognition for Linux](https://petewarden.com/2022/01/06/launching-spchcat-an-open-source-speech-recognition-tool-for-linux-and-raspberry-pi/)
- [Open Deep Robotics](https://github.com/opendr-eu/opendr)
- [SURVEY Safety Working Group](http://discourse.ros.org/t/safety-working-group-survey-on-ros-2-safety/23511)
- [Ignition Dome Officially End-Of-Life](https://community.gazebosim.org/t/ignition-dome-officially-end-of-life/1216)
- [Melonee Wise Documents all the Robots at CES](https://twitter.com/meloneewise)
- [2022 robotics predictions from industry experts](https://www.therobotreport.com/2022-robotics-predictions-from-industry-experts/)

# ROS

- [How to Connect ROS to K8s](http://discourse.ros.org/t/how-do-you-connect-your-robots-to-kubernetes-k8s-clusters/23718)
- [ROS 2 Node.JS Client Update](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ros2-node-js-client-updated-to-support-node-16/23715)
- [Why does the ROS2 Python launch files look like XML written in Python?](http://discourse.ros.org/t/why-does-the-ros2-python-launch-files-look-like-xml-written-in-python/23679)
- [Ros\_command: A new tool for unifying the ROS command line tools](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-command-a-new-tool-for-unifying-the-ros-command-line-tools/23692)
- [Brett Aldrich of SMACC Fame on Sense, Think, Act](http://discourse.ros.org/t/brett-aldrich-sense-think-act/23625)
- [micro-ROS CAN/FD Support](http://discourse.ros.org/t/micro-ros-can-fd-support/23690)
- [ros2\_tracing: Multipurpose Low-Overhead Framework for Real-Time Tracing of ROS 2](http://discourse.ros.org/t/preprint-ros2-tracing-multipurpose-low-overhead-framework-for-real-time-tracing-of-ros-2/23678)
- [Stream and Explore Your Custom Data with the New Foxglove WebSocket Protocol](http://discourse.ros.org/t/stream-and-explore-your-custom-data-with-the-new-foxglove-websocket-protocol/23548)
- [Small new year’s ROS gift for the community](http://discourse.ros.org/t/small-new-years-ros-gift-for-the-community/23643)
- [Snowbot Operating System](http://discourse.ros.org/t/snowbot-operating-system/23585)
- [Real-time Neural Visualization with ROS interface for Explainable AI and Robotics](http://discourse.ros.org/t/real-time-neural-visualization-with-ros-interface-for-explainable-ai-and-robotics/23626)
- [49 New and 201 Updated Packages for ROS 2 Galactic](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-packages-for-galactic-geochelone-2021-12-27/23607)
- [Delivery Arcade Project](http://discourse.ros.org/t/tb3-the-delivery-arcade-project-open-source-part1/23601)
- [ORB SLAM 3](http://discourse.ros.org/t/orb-slam-3/23559)
- [Foxglove Studio and RViz](http://discourse.ros.org/t/foxglove-studio-and-rviz/23550)
- [17 New and 58 Updated Packages for ROS 1 Melodic](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-packages-for-melodic-2021-12-21/23549)
- [Webots R2022a released](http://discourse.ros.org/t/webots-r2022a-released/23544)
- [Getting started with ROS2](https://medium.com/@thehummingbird/getting-started-with-ros2-part-1-d4c3b7335c71#2d97-ee23207e7b9d)
- [Really remote Teleop](https://qiita.com/otamasan/items/4d05ff5329b0cadd6fea)
- [Exposing Control Nodes for an Interactive Simulation in Gazebo](https://admantium.medium.com/robot-operating-system-expose-control-nodes-for-an-interactive-simulation-in-gazebo-ff4b3544d25)
- [Nav2 First-Time Setup Guide Complete](http://discourse.ros.org/t/nav2-first-time-setup-guide-complete/23664)

# Questions

- [Custom Plugin Using rviz::PoseTool](https://answers.ros.org/question/393777/custom-plugin-using-rvizposetool/)
- [Admittance control of UR5 robot with jog\_arm package](https://answers.ros.org/question/393763/admittance-control-of-ur5-robot-with-jog_arm-package/)
- [How to Manage Extrinsic Sensor Calibration Dynamically with Urdf?](https://answers.ros.org/question/393716/how-to-manage-extrinsic-sensor-calibration-dynamically-with-urdf/)

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**Author:** ![Katherine\_Scott](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/katherine_scott/32/4434_2.png) [@Katherine\_Scott](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/Katherine_Scott)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 9:44pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-january-3rd-2022/23722/2 "2022-01-10T21:44:50Z")

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This slipped my mind last Friday. I’ll be on the OpenCV Weekly Webinar 2022-01-13T17:00:00Z.

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**Post date:** [February 9, 2022, 9:45pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-january-3rd-2022/23722/3 "2022-02-09T21:45:00Z")

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