# ROS News for the Week of June 17th, 2024

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# ROS News for the week of June 17th, 2024
  

 ![GQhtOBQWMAAmfVv](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/c/8/c89f3a788fec2d3d06061e098ebf04142f03c602.jpeg)  
[ROSCon France](https://roscon.fr/) was this week in Nantes, here’s a group shot of the sold out conference!

  

![garfield](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/0/1/01205440e1a6006217579740713db6a7934cefca.gif)  
CVPR was this week. I’ve dropped a list of robotics related CVPR papers below. Pictured above is [“GARField Group Anything with Radiance Fields”](https://www.garfield.studio/) from UC Berkeley and Luma.ai.

  

 ![Awarded_SBIR](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/3/b/3b39db67ffa0a61b404892918cda2baba4abeb2d.jpeg)  
[Our friends at PickNik have been awarded three NASA SBIR grants for SpaceROS!](http://discourse.ros.org/t/nasa-funding-picknik-for-ros-development/38247)

  

 ![IMG20240616121447](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/4/b/4b78af61b3a1a7eaac957178aaca1d7b03973030.jpeg)  
After a successful [Open Sauce](https://opensauce.com/) pre-party last Friday I ended up getting a loaner badge for Open Sauce. [Here’s a photo dump of robots from the event.](https://photos.app.goo.gl/nGAy5XYnY6hD4FnJA) Pictured is Kev from [Kev’s robots.](https://www.kevsrobots.com/) I am going to try and put together an OSRF booth next year!

# Events

- [2024-06-25 Hamlyn Symposium on Open-Source Software for Surgical Technology](https://www.hamlynsymposium.org/events/open-source-software-for-surgical-technologies-2/)
- [2024-06-26 Master Multi-Robot Fleet Management: Open-RMF](http://discourse.ros.org/t/master-multi-robot-fleet-management-open-rmf-training-starts-june-26/37723)
- [2024-06-26 Gazebo Community Meeting](https://community.gazebosim.org/t/community-meeting-building-and-optimizing-gazebo-simulation-environments/2831)
- [2024-06-19 =\> 2024-06-20 ROSCon France](http://discourse.ros.org/t/roscon-france-2024/35222)
- [2024-07-02 Medical Community Group Meeting](http://discourse.ros.org/t/next-medical-community-group-event-theme-announced/38099)
- [2024-07-29 =\> 2024-08-02 IEEE RAS Multi-Robot Summer School Prague](https://mrs.felk.cvut.cz/summer-school-2024/)
- [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)
- [2024-08-16 =\> 2024-08-17 Ubucon Latin America](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ubucon-latin-america-2024-llamado-a-conferencias-y-talleres/37844)
- [2024-09-07 Silicon Valley Robotics Robot Block Party](https://www.meetup.com/Silicon-Valley-Robotics/events/299742839/)q`
- [2024-09-18 Foxglove Actuate San Francisco](https://actuate.foxglove.dev/?utm_campaign=actuate+summit&utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social)
- [2024-09-19 ==\> 2024-09-20 ROSCon Spain](https://roscon.org.es/ROSConES2024.html)
- [2024-09-25 ROSConJP](https://roscon.jp/2024/)
- [2024-10-22 → 2024-10-24 AgRobot FIRA in Sacramento](https://fira-usa.com/)
- [2024-10-23 → 2024-10-25 16th International Conference on Social Robotics +AI](https://icsr2024.dk/)
- [2024-11-02 → 2024-11-03 ROSCon China in Shenzhen](http://roscon.roseducation.org.cn/2024/en/)
- [2024-12-03 ROSCon Germany](http://discourse.ros.org/t/roscon-de-2024-ankundigung/37854)

# News

- [NASA Funding for SpaceROS at PickNik](http://discourse.ros.org/t/nasa-funding-picknik-for-ros-development/38247)
- [Labor shortages are still fueling growth at automation firms like GrayMatter](https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/20/labor-shortages-are-still-fueling-growth-at-automation-firms-like-graymatter/) – [Robot Report](https://www.therobotreport.com/graymatter-robotics-raises-45m-series-b-ease-programming-manufacturers/)
- [DiffLoc: Diffusion Model for Outdoor LiDAR Localization](https://github.com/liw95/DiffLoc)
- [LEAP-VO: Long-term Effective Any Point Tracking for Visual Odometry](https://github.com/chiaki530/leapvo)
- [CFP: IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics Special Issue on Space Robotics](https://www.ieee-ras.org/publications/t-fr/special-issues/cfp-ieee-transactions-on-field-robotics-special-issue-on-space-robotics)
- [SPIN: Simultaneous Perception, Interaction and Navigation](https://spin-robot.github.io/)
- [GARField Group Anything with Radiance Fields](https://www.garfield.studio/)
- [Waabi’s GenAI promises to do so much more than power self-driving trucks](https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/18/waabis-genai-promises-to-do-so-much-more-than-power-self-driving-trucks/)
- [GM invests another $850M into Cruise as it expands manual operations](https://www.therobotreport.com/gm-invests-another-850m-into-cruise-as-it-expands-manual-operations/)
- [Vecna Robotics raises more than $100M](https://www.therobotreport.com/vecna-robotics-raises-100m-hires-coo-expand-warehouse-automation/)
- [coboworx raises $12M to make robotics more accessible](https://www.therobotreport.com/coboworx-raises-12m-to-make-automation-more-accessible/)
- [Korechi Innovations Pik’r-1500 robot retrieves golf balls at the U.S. Open](https://www.therobotreport.com/korechi-innovations-pikr-1500-robot-retrieves-golf-balls-at-the-u-s-open/)
- [Honoring the Legacy of Chip Design Innovator Lynn Conway](https://spectrum.ieee.org/chip-design-innovator-lynn-conway)
- [Here’s the Most Buglike Robot Bug Yet](https://spectrum.ieee.org/flying-robot-bug)
- [Kuka Medical Innovation Award](http://discourse.ros.org/t/kuka-medical-innovation-award-deadline-june-28-2024/38256)

# ROS

- [62 New and 63 Updated Packages for Humble](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-packages-for-humble-hawksbill-2024-06-20/38277)
- [4 New and 20 Updated Packages for Noetic](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-packages-for-noetic-2024-06-20/38278)
- [68 New and 196 Updated Packages for Jazzy](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-packages-for-jazzy-jalisco-2024-06-18/38240)
- [ROS2: How to achieve visual recognition with AgileX Limo ROS 2?](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ros2-how-to-achieve-visual-recognition-with-agilex-limo-ros2/38252)
- [ROS2\_documentation provides HTML artifacts via Github action](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ros2-documentation-provides-html-artifacts-via-github-action/38224)
- [F1Tenth Lecture Playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL868twsx7OjdnroeAUFVBGlKGnFGi9txc)
- [ROSCon Spain Workshops](https://roscon.org.es/ROSConES2024.html)
- [Sam Rossiter’s Rosmo Aims to Deliver an Easy-to-Build Robot Platform for ROS 2 and MicroBlocks](https://www.hackster.io/news/sam-rossiter-s-rosmo-aims-to-deliver-an-easy-to-build-robot-platform-for-ros-2-and-microblocks-85e2e0fa4b5a)
- [PyRoboPlan 1.1](https://github.com/sea-bass/pyroboplan/releases/tag/1.1.0)
- [Design and Evaluation of Motion Planners for Quadrotors](https://github.com/KumarRobotics/kr_mp_design)
- [Bidirectional ROS to gstreamer bridge and utilities for dynamic pipelines](https://github.com/tatsuyai713/ros-gst-bridge)

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**Late breaking update** : the next [Singapore ROS Meetup](https://www.meetup.com/Singapore-ROS-Meetup/events/301792621?utm_medium=email&utm_source=braze_canvas&utm_campaign=mmrk_alleng_event_announcement_prod_v7_en&utm_term=promo&utm_content=lp_meetup) is happening **Thursday, July 4, 2024 from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM SGT** so please click that link and RSVP if you can make it!

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