# ROS News for the Week of September 23rd 2024

**URL:** https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-september-23rd-2024/39795
**Category:** Community News
**Tags:** weekly-update
**Created:** [September 27, 2024, 7:49pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-september-23rd-2024/39795 "2024-09-27T19:49:47Z")
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#### Post date: [September 27, 2024, 7:49pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-news-for-the-week-of-september-23rd-2024/39795/1 "2024-09-27T19:49:47Z")

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# ROS News for the Week of September 23rd 2024
  

 ![roscon_2024-odense](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/0/9/0911532b87b7280dc7b12189d6034b2cdb5656e1.png)  
⏱This is your _final_ [ROSCon 2024](https://roscon.ros.org/2024/) ticket reminder. The last day to purchase regular price ROSCon tickets is Monday 2024-09-30T07:00:00Z. Prices go up after Monday! I believe we [have one ROSCon sponsorship slot](https://roscon.ros.org/2024/img/ROSCon_2024_Sponsorship_Prospectus.pdf) remaining, if your org would like to snap it up please reach out to us before 2024-10-01T07:00:00Z.

  

 ![Ionic Swag Sale](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/2/0/200de750596d30e01f84ab3bf5e424fe5efeefc4.jpeg)  
 ![Copy of Ionic Swag Sale](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/9/e/9e43900fbd1dab6d0b59af9818af4676b03aaad5.jpeg)  
[Gazebo Ionic drops on Monday! We’ve released the release illustration and kicked off our swag sale for this release.](https://community.gazebosim.org/t/gazebo-ionic-tutorial-party-results-artwork-swag-sale-and-more/3060) We’ve also released a 3D model you can download and print at home!

  

 ![GYZVTYwXwAABO5w](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/3/1/3140abab4467e11de201152a4a7b7921f61bd4ee.jpeg)  
Congratulations to our Japanese colleagues on another successful [ROSConJP](https://roscon.jp/) ‼ My understanding is that this was our biggest ROSConJP yet, and I woke up to an absolute storm of amazing social media posts on Tuesday morning.

  

![teleop](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/8/9/897b93d47f06312ae0d5933cb86d126b5ec2b565.gif)  
[Check out this cool demo of using your phone and ROS to do robot teleoperation](http://discourse.ros.org/t/servo-a-robot-arm-using-your-phone-and-webxr/39776)

  

 ![v1.15-Blog-post](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/7/c/7c428a5474ce0df9db9ca1f261de43486908abfa.png)  
[Congratulations to our friends at PX4 who released v 1.15 this week!](https://px4.io/px4-autopilot-release-v1-15-what-you-need-to-know/) They have a bunch of great new tutorials that are taking a look at.

  

 ![a7b808b342f7b40b33d159774ee3bed11290f481_2_690x412](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/a/1/a19259804a82dbdbc4b9e4a452a864fc43a5ca4f.png)  
@JM_ROS has released some helpful plots from their [ROS executor benchmarks](http://discourse.ros.org/t/the-ros-2-c-executors/38296/21?u=katherine_scott) that are worth checking out.  
  

 ![GYT1crwWAAA4yzW](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/9/c/9cc23ced78acbb52e20724f30c73f4468281aed2.jpeg)  
[The ROSCon India CFP is now live.](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf6aFXrDBRjStb4UbMZEGtg8P1LnyZ1rzjzUUJ0siSNxYGssw/viewform) Submissions are due 2024-10-31T07:00:00Z.

# Events

- [2024-10-03 Interop SIG: Resource Contention in Large Robot Fleets](http://discourse.ros.org/t/interoperability-interest-group-october-03-2024-the-challenge-of-resource-contention-in-large-scale-robot-fleets/39768)
- [2024-10-04 F1Tenth Race at IROS 2024](https://autodrive-ecosystem.github.io/competitions/f1tenth-sim-racing-iros-2024/)
- [2024-10-21 → 2024-10-24 ROSCon 2024 in Odense, Denmark](https://roscon.ros.org/2024/)
- [2024-10-22 → 2024-10-24 AgRobot FIRA in Sacramento](https://fira-usa.com/)
- [2024-10-24 → 2024-10-25 ROS Industrial Conference EU in Odense](https://rosindustrial.org/events/2024/ros-industrial-conference-2024)
- [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/)
- [2024-11-6 → 2024-11-7 ROS-Industrial APAC Summit](https://www.eventbrite.sg/e/ros-industrial-consortium-asia-pacific-annual-summit-2024-tickets-906578319157?aff=oddtdtcreator)
- – [More](https://a-star-engagementportal.glueup.com/event/ros-industrial-consortium-asia-pacific-annual-summit-2024-116803/)
- [CoRL Workshop on Lifelong Learning in Home Robotics](https://llhomerobots.github.io/)
- [2024-11-22 F1Tenth Learning to Trust Autonomy Workshop at BU](https://sites.bu.edu/learningautonomy/)
- [2024-12-03 ROSCon Germany](https://roscon2024.de/)
- [2024-12-05 ROSCon India](http://discourse.ros.org/t/roscon-india-2024/39338)
- [2024-12-16 =\> 2024-12-19 F1Tenth Sim Racing League at CDC 2024](https://autodrive-ecosystem.github.io/competitions/f1tenth-sim-racing-cdc-2024/)

# News

- [🔥 Gazebo Ionic Swag + 3D Model](https://community.gazebosim.org/t/gazebo-ionic-tutorial-party-results-artwork-swag-sale-and-more/3060)
- [OSRF Interim Policy on GenAI](http://discourse.ros.org/t/interim-policy-on-the-use-of-generative-ai-in-osrf-projects/39731?u=katherine_scott)
- [Critical Container Escape NVIDIA Bug](https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/26/critical_nvidia_bug_container_escape/)
- [ROSCon BoF: Medical Applications](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-medical-bof-at-roscon-2024/39766)
- [ROSCon Bof: Maritime Robotics](http://discourse.ros.org/t/maritime-lunch-huddle-at-roscon-2024/39718)
- [ROSConES Report](http://discourse.ros.org/t/reporte-de-la-roscon-espana-2024/39739)
- [🆒 URDFormer: A Pipeline for Constructing Articulated Simulation Environments from Real-World Images](https://urdformer.github.io/)
- [GGRt: Towards Pose-free Generalizable 3D Gaussian Splatting in Real-time](https://github.com/lifuguan/GGRt_official)
- [Expressive Whole-Body 3D Gaussian Avatar](https://mks0601.github.io/ExAvatar/)
- [Visual Programming of Offboard Mode with PX4 v1.15](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeiHbkxyFUg)
- [🆕 Robotica: Montreal Robotics Hacker Space](https://www.robotica.sh/)
- [New ROS Robot in Space](https://humans-in-space.jaxa.jp/news/detail/003155.html)
- [Autonomous Kia Soul built by students](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGUT1n2OOdU)
- [ShapeLLM: Universal 3D Object Understanding for Embodied Interaction](https://github.com/qizekun/ShapeLLM)
- [Text2Interaction: Establishing Safe and Preferable Human-Robot Interaction](https://sites.google.com/view/text2interaction/)
- [Video Friday](https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-icra40)
- [Mendaera brings in $73M to finish developing its handheld robotic device](https://www.therobotreport.com/mendaera-brings-in-73m-to-finish-developing-its-handheld-robotic-device/)
- [Pyka raises $40M for autonomous electric aircraft](https://therobotreport.com/pyka-raises-40m-for-autonomous-electric-aircraft/)
- [Intel RealSense D421 offers low-cost depth sensing for robots](https://www.therobotreport.com/intel-realsense-d421-offers-low-cost-depth-sensing-for-robots/)
- [Epica raises $18M for industrial, medical robots](https://www.therobotreport.com/epica-raises-18m-for-industrial-medical-robots/)
- [Vsim, founded by Nvidia alums, raises $24M for robotics simulation tech](https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/25/vsim-founded-by-nvidia-alums-raises-21-5m-for-robotics-simulation-tech/)
- [Meet Tennibot, the tennis ball Roomba](https://techcrunch.com/podcast/meet-tennibot-the-tennis-ball-roomba/)

# ROS

- [🆒 ROS Teleop using Your Phone](http://discourse.ros.org/t/servo-a-robot-arm-using-your-phone-and-webxr/39776)
- [Px4 v 1.15 Release Now Available](https://px4.io/px4-autopilot-release-v1-15-what-you-need-to-know/)
- [Exporting SolidWorks Design as URDF for ROS](http://discourse.ros.org/t/exporting-solidworks-design-as-urdf-for-ros/39738)
- [ROS Executors Benchmarks](http://discourse.ros.org/t/the-ros-2-c-executors/38296/21?u=katherine_scott)
- [50 New and 423 Updated Packages for ROS Rolling](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-packages-for-ros-2-rolling-ridley-2024-09-26/39774)
- [47 New and 492 Updated Packages for Jazzy](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-packages-and-patch-release-for-jazzy-jalisco-2024/39727)
- [3 New and 204 Updated Packages for Iron Irwini](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-packages-for-iron-irwini-2024-09-23/39726)
- [TurtleNest Package Creator Now in Most Active Distros](http://discourse.ros.org/t/introducing-turtle-nest-gui-for-ros-2-package-creation/39229/18?u=katherine_scott)
- [3D Object Detection and Navigation with YOLOv8 and LIMO Robot](http://discourse.ros.org/t/3d-object-detection-and-navigation-with-yolov8-and-limo-robot-ros-developers-openclass-197/39767)
- [A collection of ROS 2 Aliases](https://github.com/kimushun1101/ros2-aliases/blob/main/README-ja.md)
- [A New Wave in Robotics: Survey on Recent mmWave Radar Applications in Robotics](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10683889)
- [Best Of Github: ROSConES 2024](https://github.com/stars/ivrolan/lists/rosconspain2024)
- [ROS 2: Clients within a Callback](https://techmagic.co.jp/ros-2-clients-within-a-callback-%e3%82%b3%e3%83%bc%e3%83%ab%e3%83%90%e3%83%83%e3%82%af%e3%81%ae%e4%b8%ad%e5%bf%83%e3%81%a7%e3%80%81%e3%82%af%e3%83%a9%e3%82%a4%e3%82%a2%e3%83%b3%e3%83%88%e3%82%92/)
- [A tightly coupled and real time LiDAR-Inertial SLAM algorithm. Based upon LIMO-Velo and FAST\_LIO projects.](https://github.com/fetty31/fast_LIMO)
- [A ROS 2 stack that contains agents, interfaces and RQT plugins for connecting to CORTEX architecture using a Deep State Representation (DSR) graph.](https://github.com/grupo-avispa/dsr_ros)
- [RViz Plugins for HRI](https://github.com/ros4hri/hri_rviz)
- [Text2Speech for ROS](https://github.com/mgonzs13/tts_ros)

# Got a Minute? 🕰

If you learned something new about ROS this week [consider sending us a documentation pull request covering what you learned.](https://github.com/ros2/ros2_documentation/pulls) The ROS Docs are a community effort, and we could really use your help filling in the gaps in our documentation.