# ROS News for the Week of November 18th, 2024
**URL:** https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-november-18th-2024/40777
**Category:** Community News
**Tags:** weekly-update
**Created:** [November 22, 2024, 9:34pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-november-18th-2024/40777 "2024-11-22T21:34:57Z")
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### Author:  [@Katherine\_Scott](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/Katherine_Scott)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2024, 9:34pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-november-18th-2024/40777/1 "2024-11-22T21:34:57Z")
# ROS News for the Week of November 18th, 2024
The ROSCon 2024 videos are finally here! If you missed a talk or missed the whole event you can now catch up by watching the [videos online](http://discourse.ros.org/t/roscon-2024-videos-are-now-available/40677).
[Join us on 2024-11-27 for our monthly Gazebo Community Meeting. We’ll have eight competitors from the NASA Space ROS Summer Sprint Challenge on to talk about their work.](https://community.gazebosim.org/t/community-meeting-nasa-space-ros-sim-summer-sprint-challenge-nov-2024/3210)
@cottsay, one of our fantastic ROS core contributors, just added a new automatic review tool to rosdistro that should make it faster and easier to get your pull requests approved. Learn all about it [in this post](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-automation-for-validating-rosdistro-changes/40732) or by watching this [ROSCon lightning talk](https://vimeo.com/1026038503#t=27m2s).
Check out this [homebrew ROS 2 snow plowing robot](https://x.com/serdar_abali/status/1859317324911661195) by [Serdar Abali](https://github.com/SerdarAbali/) in Finland! With winter fast approaching in the northern hemisphere this seems like an amazing project! Coming across cool DIY ROS projects like this always makes my day.
# Events
- [2024-11-27 Gazebo Community Meeting – Space ROS Summer Sprint Challenge](https://community.gazebosim.org/t/community-meeting-nasa-space-ros-sim-summer-sprint-challenge-nov-2024/3210)
- [2024-12-02 Space Station OS Meeting 12pm JST/ 7am PST](https://meet.google.com/sgz-ridb-zad)
- [2024-12-03 ROSCon Germany](https://roscon2024.de/)
- [2024-12-05 ROSCon India](http://discourse.ros.org/t/roscon-india-2024/39338)
- [2024-12-07 Circuit Launch Mountain View Grand Opening](https://lu.ma/2lkm9otp?tk=wqm4zy)
- [2024-12-07 → 2024-12-08 ROSCon China in Shenzhen](https://www.roscon.cn/2024/index.html)
- [2024-12-11 =\> 2024-12-12 Humanoids Summit Bay Area](https://humanoidssummit.com/)
- [2024-12-15 FIRA Ag Robotics Hackathon Registration Deadline](https://firahackathon.github.io/)
- [2024-12-16 =\> 2024-12-19 F1Tenth Sim Racing League at CDC 2024](https://autodrive-ecosystem.github.io/competitions/f1tenth-sim-racing-cdc-2024/)
- [2024-12-22 Open Hardware Summit CFP Deadline](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeiuWtUClyQ2Aj-CBFwZacpfL9xxgG_ZA8ImF0SF9sT2-sqKA/viewform)
- [2024-12-31 Deadline for Natural Robotics Contest](https://www.naturalroboticscontest.com/)
- [2025-02-01 FOSDEM 25](https://fosdem.org/2025/) – [See Robotics and Sim Room](http://discourse.ros.org/t/fosdem-2025-robotics-simulation-first-edition/40349)
- [2025-02-04 =\> 2025-02-06 World FIRA Ag Robotics Conference in Toulouse, France](https://world-fira.com/)
- [2025-04-28 International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering](http://discourse.ros.org/t/7th-international-workshop-on-robotics-software-engineering/39901)
- [2025-05-30 =\> 2025-05-31 2025 Open Hardware Summit in Edinburgh](https://2025.oshwa.org/)
# News
- [Seegrid joins OSRA](https://hub.seegrid.com/news/seegrid-joins-open-source-robotics-alliance?utm_content=316784566&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin&hss_channel=lcp-157132)
- [DIY ROS 2 Snow Removal Robot in Finland](https://x.com/serdar_abali/status/1859317324911661195)
- [Bringing robot skills from simulation to the real world](https://itcanthink.substack.com/p/bringing-robot-skills-from-simulation?r=3uj5js&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true)
- [Adaptive morphing for stable, resilient, and energy-efficient flight of avian-informed drones](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n8Mlsi7tFk)
- [Cyobot v2 Open Hardware Quadruped](https://hackaday.io/project/199084-cyobot-v2-transformable-quadruped-robot)
- [Four Growers builds robots to help solve greenhouse labor shortages](https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/20/yc-backed-four-growers-builds-robots-to-help-solve-greenhouse-labor-shortages/?guccounter=1)
- [Another boring SMACC demo in IsaacSim](http://discourse.ros.org/t/another-boring-smacc-demo-in-isaacsim/40709)
- [FreeCAD 1.0 Release](https://hackaday.com/2024/11/20/freecad-version-1-0-released/) – [Sizzle Reel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5oXSGhK7EY)
- [OpenCV Live: The Best Stuff from ROSCon 2024](https://www.youtube.com/live/xu3y1f5PNK4)
- [TRUMPF & Intrinsic: AI-enabled robotics for the machine tool industry](https://www.intrinsic.ai/blog/posts/trumpf-intrinsic-ai-enabled-robotics-for-the-machine-tool-industry)
- [Dave Coleman on Audrow Nash Podcast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L78mSk7-qMU)
- [Teleo wants to help the robotics industry reach its ‘ChatGPT moment’](https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/21/teleo-wants-to-help-the-robotics-industry-reach-its-chatgpt-moment/)
- [Video Friday](https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-cobot-proxie)
- [New Robot Sensor Modality?](https://spectrum.ieee.org/electronic-nose)
- [Red Cat beats Skydio for Drone Contract](https://www.therobotreport.com/red-cat-wins-u-s-army-next-gen-drone-contract-over-skydio/)
- [Pickle Robot gets orders for over 30 unloading systems plus $50M in funding](https://www.therobotreport.com/pickle-robot-gets-orders-over-30-unloading-systems-plus-50m-funding/)
- [Collaborative Robotics unveils Proxie mobile manipulator](https://www.therobotreport.com/collaborative-robotics-unveils-proxie-mobile-manipulator/)
- [ZettaScale designs Zenoh to transcend DDS for automotive, ROS communications](https://www.therobotreport.com/zettascale-designs-zenoh-to-transcend-dds-for-automotive-ros-communications/)
# ROS
- [ROSCon 2024 Videos and Slides](http://discourse.ros.org/t/roscon-2024-videos-are-now-available/40677)
- [New Automation for Validating rosdistro Changes](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-automation-for-validating-rosdistro-changes/40732)
- [October TGC Meeting Minutes](http://discourse.ros.org/t/osra-tgc-meeting-minutes-for-october-2024/40768)
- [A Python Package that helps you generate ROS 2 Packages](http://discourse.ros.org/t/introducing-ros2-pkg-create-new-powerful-ros-2-package-generator/40669)
- [Simplifying AI Integration in UAVs: Challenges, Ideas, and Community Solutions](http://discourse.ros.org/t/simplifying-ai-integration-in-uavs-challenges-ideas-and-community-solutions/40705)
- [0 New and 47 Updated Noetic Packages](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-packages-for-noetic-2024-11-15/40633)
- [43 New and 347 Updated Packages for Jazzy](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-packages-for-jazzy-jalisco-2024-11-21/40763)
- [ROS PMC Meeting Minutes for 2024-11-19](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-pmc-meeting-minutes-2024-11-19/40758)
- [Further Development of the ROS ABB Driver](http://discourse.ros.org/t/further-development-of-the-ros-2-abb-driver/40745)
- [ROS Embodied AI Community Group](https://github.com/ros-wg-embodied-ai)
- [Reference implementation of Zenoh-pico to micro-ROS](http://discourse.ros.org/t/reference-implementation-of-zenoh-pico-to-micro-ros/40750)
- [Auto Car ROS 2 Vehicle Simulator](https://github.com/winstxnhdw/AutoCarROS2)
- [Floor Plan Based Active Global Localization and Navigation Aid for Persons with Blindness](https://github.com/raktimgg/FloorPlanActiveLocalization)
- [30 Different Image Matching Techniques in One Repository](https://github.com/alexstoken/image-matching-models)
- [Fault Tolerant FogROS2](https://autolab.berkeley.edu/assets/publications/media/2024_IROS_FogROS2_FT_final.pdf)
- [ROS Voice Assistant](https://github.com/victorcarvesk/ros-voice-assistant)
- [Unlocking for Industrial Users the Power of ROS 2: ROS-I October Training Highlights](https://rosindustrial.org/news/2024/11/21/unlocking-for-industrial-users-the-power-of-ros-2-ros-i-october-training-highlights)
# Got a Minute? 🕰
@DLu just sent over this [amazing custom RViz panel tutorial](https://github.com/ros2/ros2_documentation/pull/4869) to the ROS 2 documentation. We should all be more like @DLu and spend some time porting and updating ROS 1 Wiki articles to the ROS 2 documentation.
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### Author:  [@Katherine\_Scott](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/Katherine_Scott)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2024, 10:07pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-november-18th-2024/40777/2 "2024-11-22T22:07:13Z")
I forgot to mention, no news next week due to the Thanksgiving holiday break. 🦃