# ROS News for the Week of July 24th, 2023

**URL:** <https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-july-24th-2023/32605>\
**Category:** Community News\
**Tags:** weekly-update\
**Created:** [July 28, 2023, 8:21pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-july-24th-2023/32605 "2023-07-28T20:21:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 28, 2023, 8:21pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-july-24th-2023/32605/1 "2023-07-28T20:21:16Z")

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# ROS News for the Week of July 24th, 2023

 ![signal-2023-07-26-08-16-52-067](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/8/3/83c8aa6870964ab31e31749c5f1c3cf2fb5fab5c.jpeg)  
ROSCon and [PX4 Dev Summit](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/px4-developer-summit/) are happening back to back this year! [We are pleased to offer discounted tickets to those who register for both!](https://roscon.ros.org/2023/#dronecode) The earlybird ROSCon ticket sale ends September 3rd, so please register soon!

  

 ![ROSBTBAug23](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/3/e/3e85a4d07660f65293167f739f5dde0949be9459.jpeg)  
[ROS By-The-Bay is next Thursday!](https://www.meetup.com/ros-by-the-bay/events/294956602/) We’re still accepting ⚡ lightning talks ⚡ !

  

 ![hero](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/a/6/a692135e933b3cea845c3241b62a0033dada6118.png)  
[Kappe, is a new MCAP migration and cutting tool that you need in your toolbox!](http://discourse.ros.org/t/kappe-the-new-mcap-migration-and-cutting-tool/32581) It does a lot more than just conversion and cutting, and is worth checking out.

  

 ![2b1d46402ee02bf07edbb2253d372c55f6672782_2_570x500](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/5/8/58885cbad076fa69cc6eddf4ba91f59d1bca8703.png)  
Is your simulation as slow as molasses in January? Check out this tooling to generate [performance time charts for Gazebo and ROS 2](http://discourse.ros.org/t/performance-time-chart-for-gazebo-and-ros2/32518).

  

# Events

- [2023-07-29 ROS Summer School China (FREE!)](http://discourse.ros.org/t/controllergpt-an-ai-controller/32347)
- [2023-08-01 Women in Robotics at InOrbit Store](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/off-the-clock-with-women-in-robotics-and-inorbit-tickets-679144879617?aff=oddtdtcreator)
- [2023-08-01 Autoware Challenge Proposals Due](http://discourse.ros.org/t/announcing-autoware-challenge-2023/32019)
- [2023-08-03 SAVE THE DATE – ROS By-The-Bay](https://www.meetup.com/ROS-by-the-Bay/)
- [2023-08-14 - 2023-08-25 ROS Summer School](https://eveeno.com/ROS_Summer_School_2023)
- [2023-08-20 PX4 Dev Summit Developer Diversity Scholarships](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/px4-developer-summit/attend/scholarships/?utm_content=254028054&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin&hss_channel=lcp-10528142)
- [2023-09-19 → 2023-09-21 TechCrunch Disrupt (ROS Heavy Lineup)](https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/18/announcing-the-hardware-stage-agenda-at-techcrunch-disrupt-2023/)
- [2023-9-19 → 2023-09-21 FIRA USA Ag Robotics Conference in Salinas](https://fira-usa.com/)
- [2023-09-26 ROSCon JP](http://discourse.ros.org/t/roscon-jp-2023-in/29296)
- [2023-09-29 ROSCon Madrid](http://discourse.ros.org/t/roscon-madrid-2023/30571)
- [2023-10-02 → 2023-10-04 IROS Simulated Humanoid Robot Wrestling Competition](http://discourse.ros.org/t/iros-2023-simulated-humanoid-robot-wrestling-competition/32081)
- [2023-10-18 → 2023-\>10-20 ROSCon 2023 New Orleans](https://roscon.ros.org/2023)
- [2023-10-21 → 2023-\>10-22 PX4 Developer Summit New Orleans](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/px4-developer-summit/?utm_content=242496600&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin&hss_channel=lcp-18052226)

# News

- [Robot Miners in Estonia](https://robominers.eu/2023/07/27/robominers-project-to-conduct-field-trials-in-estonian-open-pit-mine/)
- [Mass Robotics Healthcare Robotics Incubator Now Accepting Applications](https://www.massrobotics.org/opportunities/healthcare-robotics-catalyst/)
- [Waymo Cancels Self-Driving Trucks](https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/26/waymo-puts-the-brakes-on-self-driving-trucks-program/)
- [SoftBank and Symbotic team to offer automated warehouses as a service](https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/24/softbank-and-symbotic-team-to-offer-automated-warehouses-as-a-service/)
- [Collaborative Robotics raises $30M to develop and deploy ‘novel cobot’](https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/26/collaborative-robotics-raises-30m-to-develop-and-deploy-novel-cobot/)
- [Google’s DeepMind team highlights new system for teaching robots novel tasks](https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/28/googles-deepmind-team-highlights-new-system-for-teaching-robots-novel-tasks/)
- [Advantech partners with MOV.AI to accelerate autonomous mobile robot development](https://www.therobotreport.com/advantech-partners-with-mov-ai-to-accelerate-autonomous-mobile-robot-development/)
- [This CMU system can turn any robot into an autonomous explorer](https://www.therobotreport.com/this-cmu-system-can-turn-any-robot-into-an-autonomous-explorer/)
- [Astrobotic earns $34.6M NASA partnership for lunar power demo](https://www.therobotreport.com/astrobotic-earns-34-6m-nasa-partnership-for-lunar-power-demo/h)
- [ROS Meetup Stuttgart Debrief](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-meetup-stuttgart-was-absolutely-awesome/32575)
- [Robot Operating System Advances Left Up to Industry](https://www.eetimes.com/robot-operating-system-advances-left-up-to-industry/)
- [Ridgeback Optimizes Lab Operations](https://clearpathrobotics.com/blog/2023/07/exploring-human-robot-interaction-ridgeback-optimizes-lab-operations/)
- [Spotlight: Using Web-Based Technologies to Make Robotics Accessible to All](https://foxglove.dev/blog/spotlight-using-web-based-technologies-to-make-robotics-accessible-to-all)
- [B Garage raises $20M for its warehouse inventory drones](https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/29/b-garage-raises-20m-for-its-warehouse-inventory-drones/)
- [Workshop: Novel Sensors for Autonomous Vehicle Perception](https://sites.google.com/corp/umich.edu/novelsensors2023)
- [Survey: Unsupervised Point Cloud Representation Learning with Deep Neural Networks](https://github.com/xiaoaoran/3d_url_survey)
- [Setting Realistic Expectations for Robotic Farming: Deployment and Beyond](https://formant.io/news-and-blog/2023/07/21/operations/setting-realistic-expectations-for-robotic-farming-deployment-and-beyond/)
- [Robot Googley Eyes that Google](https://www.kevsrobots.com/blog/googley-googley-eyes.html)

# ROS

- [ROS End-Effector package: hardware agnostic end-effector interface](https://github.com/ADVRHumanoids/ROSEndEffector)
- [Tutorial: ICRA 2023 ROS 2 and new Gazebo Tutorial materials](http://discourse.ros.org/t/tutorial-icra-2023-ros-2-and-new-gazebo-tutorial-materials/32505)
- [Perfromance Time Chart for Gazebo and ROS 2](http://discourse.ros.org/t/performance-time-chart-for-gazebo-and-ros2/32518)
- [Kappe, the new MCAP migration and cutting tool](http://discourse.ros.org/t/kappe-the-new-mcap-migration-and-cutting-tool/32581)
- [42 and 84 updated packages for ROS 2 Iron Irwini](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-packages-for-iron-irwini-2023-07-28/32600)
- [39 New and 227 Updated Packages for Humble](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-packages-and-patch-release-for-humble-hawksbill-2023-07-24/32523)
- [July Gazebo Community Meeting: Building the TurtleBot4 Simulator](https://vimeo.com/848818779?share=copy)
- [ROS Education Working Group](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-working-group-proposal-education-working-group/32588)
- [ROS Visualizations on M1 Mac?](http://discourse.ros.org/t/running-ros1-2-with-visualizations-hassle-free-apple-m1-intel-nvidia/32561)
- [ROS 2 timer behavior when callbacks take longer than the timer period](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-2-timer-behavior-when-callbacks-take-longer-than-the-timer-period/32536)
- [ROS-Based Fish Finder](http://discourse.ros.org/t/lidar-fishfinder-project/32558)
- [Visual-ROS: The no-code tool for ROS 2 development](http://discourse.ros.org/t/visual-ros-the-no-code-tool-for-ros-2-development/32511)
- [IROS 2023 wrestling competition with brand new Vulcanexus iron ROS 2 examples](http://discourse.ros.org/t/iros-2023-wrestling-competition-with-brand-new-vulcanexus-iron-ros-2-examples/32510)
- [Building Your Own Autonomous Navigation Robot](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H47OObKevA)
- [YOLOX on Humble (Japanese)](https://ar-ray.hatenablog.com/entry/2023/07/23/235817)
- [Online Monocular Lane Mapping Using Catmull-Rom Spline](https://github.com/HKUST-Aerial-Robotics/MonoLaneMapping)
- [MicroROS + FreeRTOS Tutorial](https://youtu.be/f3_Zk93HkgY)
- [Pure Python Reeds-Shepp Path Planner](https://github.com/builtrobotics/rsplan)

# ROS Answers Questions

No ROS questions this week. [Please read our post about the Stack Exchange migration and take action.](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-and-gazebo-answers-migration-to-robotics-stack-exchange-process/31494)

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