# ROS News for the Week of May 8th, 2023

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**Created:** [May 12, 2023, 7:52pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-may-8th-2023/31382 "2023-05-12T19:52:14Z")\
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# ROS News for the Week of May 8th, 2023

 ![registration_s1_v2](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/5/d/5d085feefacd79e014725800c3cb77fb500f1de8.jpeg)  
[Intrinsic has their big product keynote announcement on Monday at 9am PST!](https://rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/intrinsic-product-keynote) I recommend you check it out. 😉

  

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[Sense, Think, Act Podcast: How is Nvidia Betting Big on Reinforcement Learning for Robot Control.](http://discourse.ros.org/t/how-is-nvidia-betting-big-on-reinforcement-learning-for-robot-control-sense-think-act-podcast/31335)  
  

 ![Screenshot from 2023-05-12 12-40-40](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/0/a/0af1ac84db78b9fab607cdaf550ea570ce328d89.png)  
[This week we got a new ROS Status Page!](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-consolidated-status-page-for-open-robotics-infrastructure-and-deprecation-of-status-ros-org/31353) See it live at [status.openrobotics.org](https://status.openrobotics.org/).

  

 ![Automate MEETUP (1)](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/d/c/dcdd5f2c90b604aafcd5f07cfe0aa505e7137c6b.jpeg)  
If you are going to Automate or the ROS Industrial Annual Meeting we’re putting together an [Iron Irwini Launch Party / ROS Meetup in Detroit on May 23rd.]([2023-05-23 ROS Meetup Detroit / Automate](https://ros.splashthat.com/)) All are welcome!

  

 ![IronIrwiniLogo](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/f/8/f84ceadc97657db0bb55a3474d8fbbeae90e8ba9.jpeg)  
[The Iron Irwini Tutorial Party is still going on!](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-2-iron-irwini-testing-and-tutorial-party-instructions/31233). We’ve still got a handful of tickets that need to get closed.

  

# Events

- [2023-05-13 ROS Robot Party 東京](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-robot-party/31244)
- [2023-05-15 Intrinsic Keynote](https://rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/intrinsic-product-keynote)
- [2023-05-16 How to Integrate ROS 2 with DDS](https://newsroom.eclipse.org/events/how-integrate-ros-2-dds)
- [2023-05-16 Open Source Robotics Revolutionizes Space Exploration](https://gateway.on24.com/wcc/eh/2927718/lp/4196714/open-source-robotics-revolutionizes-space-exploration?partnerref=WindRiverSocial)
- [2023-05-17 ROS Infrastructure Community Meeting](http://discourse.ros.org/t/infrastructure-community-meeting-2023-05-17/31268)
- [2022-05-22 ROS Krakow Meetup](https://www.meetup.com/cracow-robotics-ai-club/events/292848103/)
- [2023-05-23 Automate Startup Challenge](https://www.automateshow.com/trade-show/startup-challenge?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=owned&utm_content=show)
- [2023-05-23 ROS Meetup Detroit / Automate](https://ros.splashthat.com/)
- [2023-05-24 → 2023-05-25 ROS Industrial Annual Meeting](https://rosindustrial.org/events/2023/5/ros-industrial-consortium-americas-2023-annual-meeting)
- [2023-06-01 - 2023-06-03 Toulouse Robot Race](http://discourse.ros.org/t/toulouse-robot-race-juin-2023/30709)
- [2023-06-02 ICRA Robot Wrestling Competition](http://discourse.ros.org/t/icra-2023-simulated-humanoid-robot-wrestling-competition/29268) – [More Info](https://webots.cloud/run?version=R2023a&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fcyberbotics%2Fwrestling%2Fblob%2Fcompetition%2Fworlds%2Fwrestling.wbt&type=competition)
- [2023-06-06 Kidnapped Robot? Get it back with Isaac ROS Map Localization](http://discourse.ros.org/t/kidnapped-robot-get-it-back-with-isaac-ros-map-localization-webinar/31350)
- [2023-06-08 World MoveIt Day](http://discourse.ros.org/t/join-us-for-world-moveit-day-2023-celebrating-10-years-of-moveit-open-source-software-june-8th/31320)
- [2023-07-04 → 2023-07-05 ROScon France in Bordeaux](http://discourse.ros.org/t/rosconfr-2023-a-bordeaux-pendant-robocup/29181) –[in conjunction with RoboCup](https://2023.robocup.org/en/)
- [2023-07-04 → 2023-07-05 ROS Industrial EU](https://rosindustrial.org/rosindustrial-conference-2023)
- [2023-07-07 Construct ROS Developers Day](https://www.theconstructsim.com/ros-developers-day-2023/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=hootsuite&utm_term=&utm_content=&utm_campaign=rosdevday23_keynote_title)
- 2023-07-09 ROSCon Submission Deadline
- [2023-08-14 - 2023-08-25 ROS Summer School](https://eveeno.com/ROS_Summer_School_2023)
- [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)
- [2023-10-18 → 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

- [Sense, Think, Act: How is Nvidia Betting Big on Reinforcement Learning for Robot Control](http://discourse.ros.org/t/how-is-nvidia-betting-big-on-reinforcement-learning-for-robot-control-sense-think-act-podcast/31335)
- [Open Robotics Garage Sale](http://discourse.ros.org/t/open-robotics-robot-garage-sale/31321)
- [World MoveIt Day 2023!](http://discourse.ros.org/t/join-us-for-world-moveit-day-2023-celebrating-10-years-of-moveit-open-source-software-june-8th/31320)
- [AMP Robotics attracts investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund](https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/11/amp-robotics-attracts-investment-from-microsofts-climate-innovation-fund/)
- [This robot hand can manipulate objects without seeing them](https://www.therobotreport.com/this-robot-hand-can-manipulate-objects-without-seeing-them/)
- [Mother’s Day is Sunday – Get Mom a ROSBag](https://www.rosbags.com/) 🤣
- [YOLO V8 How to Train a Custom Detector](https://youtu.be/ZUhRZ9UTkIM)
- [How Greenzie Does Obstacle Detection](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXM4o3VWQ_s)
- [A fleet of humanoid, open-source robots could change robotics research](https://www.popsci.com/technology/nsf-quori-robot-research/)
- [CV-CUDA is an open-source, GPU accelerated library for cloud-scale image processing and computer vision.](https://github.com/CVCUDA/CV-CUDA)
- [TidyBot: Personalized Robot Assistance with Large Language Models](https://tidybot.cs.princeton.edu/)
- [Multi-Space Neural Radiance Fields](https://zx-yin.github.io/msnerf/)
- [Python Robotics](https://github.com/AtsushiSakai/PythonRobotics)

# ROS

- [NEW! ROS Status Page](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-consolidated-status-page-for-open-robotics-infrastructure-and-deprecation-of-status-ros-org/31353)
- [VOTE NOW – ROS Awards 2023](http://discourse.ros.org/t/vote-now-ros-awards-2023/31334)
- [Announcing REP-2015 - ROS 2 DDS Security PKCS #11 Support](http://discourse.ros.org/t/announcing-rep-2015-ros-2-dds-security-pkcs-11-support/31357)
- [ROSConDe? Submit your feedback.](http://discourse.ros.org/t/proposal-for-roscon-de-2023-getting-feedback-on-interest-and-involvement/31310)
- [ROS Iron Irwini Testing and Tutorial Party](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-2-iron-irwini-testing-and-tutorial-party-instructions/31233)
- [ROS India Summit 2023 Survey](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-india-summit-2023-survey/31338)
- [Looking for awesome deliberation tools and resources](http://discourse.ros.org/t/looking-for-awesome-deliberation-tools-and-resources/31327) – [Source](https://github.com/ros-wg-delib/awesome-ros-deliberation)
- [Safe DDS 1.0.0 Presentation and Online Docs](http://discourse.ros.org/t/safe-dds-1-0-0-presentation-and-online-doc/31308)
- [Colcon extension for validating package dependencies](http://discourse.ros.org/t/colcon-extension-for-validating-package-dependencies/31303)
- [ROS development on Linux, Windows and macOS](https://ubuntu.com/blog/ros-development-on-linux-windows-and-macos)
- [New Iron Irwini Features](https://github.com/fujitatomoya/presentation/blob/master/ROS_Iron_Irwini_Release/ROS_Iron_Irwini.pdf)
- [ROS & Hardware](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ros-hardware-pratheesh-prakash/?trackingId=SkKUonT0pUdG1Y1Rl%2FTW2g%3D%3D)
- [ROS Ultimate guide for Custom Robotic Arms and Panda 7 DOF](https://github.com/noshluk2/ROS-Ultimate-guide-for-Custom-Robotic-Arms-and-Panda-7-DOF-/blob/master/Robotics_kinematics_solver.ipynb)
- [A Kinematic library for controlling cable driven continuum robot](https://github.com/elhussieny/continuum_robot)
- [Single Thread of ROS 2, Not Necessarily FIFO. Could be “Round Robin”](https://motion-boseong.vercel.app/post8)
- [The basics of getting up and running with ROS 2 in Windows](https://rosindustrial.org/news/2023/5/10/the-basics-of-getting-up-and-running-with-ros-2-in-windows)
- [microROS x ESP32 (Japanese)](https://rt-net.jp/notice/20230512/)
- [Tier 4 open source visual localization for self-driving vehicles](https://github.com/tier4/YabLoc)

# ROS Questions

- [URDF What is a dummy link needed for?](https://answers.ros.org/question/415304/urdf-what-is-a-dummy-link-needed-for/)
- [Unit Teting in ROS 2: DI, Wrappers, and Code Structure](https://answers.ros.org/question/414927/about-unit-testing-in-ros2-di-wrappers-and-code-structure/)
- [How to Add Git Repository as Submodule in ROS 2 Package?](https://answers.ros.org/question/415226/how-to-add-git-repository-as-submodule-in-ros2-package/)

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