# ROS Update for the week of 7/20/2020

**URL:** <https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-update-for-the-week-of-7-20-2020/15589>\
**Category:** ROS General\
**Tags:** weekly-update\
**Created:** [July 24, 2020, 5:27pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-update-for-the-week-of-7-20-2020/15589 "2020-07-24T17:27:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![Katherine\_Scott](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/katherine_scott/32/4434_2.png) [@Katherine\_Scott](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/Katherine_Scott)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 5:27pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-update-for-the-week-of-7-20-2020/15589/1 "2020-07-24T17:27:23Z")

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# ROS Update for the week of 7/20/2020

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_[Neave Engineering](http://discourse.ros.org/t/first-day-of-school-my-new-career/15491)_  
  
  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/2X/5/50a5454a0518c49a41b476754bc266314fadd8bd.jpeg)  
Parody [Gadsden flag](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsden_flag) stolen from [Twitter](https://twitter.com/nullagent/status/1285675450610733059?s=19)

Maybe we should plan a [Short Circuit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Circuit_(1986_film)) watch party for the ROS community?

_Events_

- [AWS Cloud Robotics Event August 18th and 19th](https://pages.awscloud.com/Cloud-Robotics-Summit.html)

_General ROS_

- [New Gazebo World from Clearpath](https://clearpathrobotics.com/blog/2020/07/clearpath-robots-get-new-gazebo-simulation-environments/)
- [Kalmann Filter Tutorial in ROS](https://medium.com/@gunjangiri8410/kalman-filtering-a-practical-implementation-guide-with-code-4bcbaceb0225)
- [New Foxy Packages!](http://discourse.ros.org/t/new-packages-for-foxy-fitzroy-2020-07-23/15570)
- [Canonical on ROS 2](https://ubuntu.com/blog/robotics-recap-learning-programming-and-snapping-ros-2)
- [New Dashing Packages](https://t.co/SU5bjS8pF1?amp=1)
- [AMA on ROS + LTE](http://discourse.ros.org/t/i-ve-spent-over-a-hundred-hours-connecting-robots-with-lte-ask-me-anything/15519/3)
- [ROS Industrial on ROS2 Scan-N-Plan](https://rosindustrial.org/news/2020/7/8/developing-a-ros2-collaborative-industrial-scan-n-plan-application)

_Videos / Recorded Talks_

- [APEX.AI Autoware Lecture 11: LGSVL Simulator](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcB6FUbjZXo&feature=youtu.be)
- [ROS X PX4 at PX4 Dev Summit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YsufNhu1Gw&feature=youtu.be)
- [James Burton on ROS: Jetson+TurtleBot+RPI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0--ZJfmUEM&feature=youtu.be)
- [Neave Engineering: New ROS YouTube Channel](http://discourse.ros.org/t/first-day-of-school-my-new-career/15491)

_Surveys_

- [Please Fill out the Solidworks URDF Exporter Survey](http://discourse.ros.org/t/help-plan-improvements-for-solidworks-urdf-exporter-2-0-survey/15538)
- [ROSBag Inspection Survey](http://discourse.ros.org/t/rosbag-inspection-survey/15513)
- [CMU Survey on ROS Config Files](http://discourse.ros.org/t/participants-wanted-for-a-survey-on-ros-configuration-issues/15493)

_Note: if you want to run a survey, drop me a line. I can help promote it and even help you analyze the results._

_Hardware_

- [ROS 2 Embedded Working Group is Back!](https://micro-ros.github.io/blog/2020/07/17/EWG/)
- [OpenCV AI Kit hit $500K, new features, cool demos at Edge WG](http://discourse.ros.org/t/opencv-ai-kit-oak/15406)

_For the Little Robots_

- [Robot activity sheets to keep your kids busy while you code.](https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/home-robots/robots-activity-sheets)  
\*[Sea Turtles!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fZRRfai1bs&feature=youtu.be)

  
  
  
  
  

**Fun Robot History Story This Week**

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/2X/f/f80846dd32639fca9ac9e8a78976b72efaa75d7e.jpeg)  
  
  
A fun story this week, a friend sent this Craigslist listing for a [“NASA Tank for Sale”](https://lasvegas.craigslist.org/cto/d/las-vegas-1963-nasa-mini-tank/7159996810.html) to our shared slack group. Which lead another friend to figure out that this thing was part of a [Hughes Aircraft Mobot](http://cyberneticzoo.com/teleoperators/1963c-mobot-hughes-aircraft-american/), one of the first commercial mobile robots. One of the two locations where the Mobot was used is in the cleanup of the first US nuclear accidents, the [SL-1 reactor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1), which is a really interesting read (warning: it is fairly morbid). The SL-1 reactor was a prototype Arctic power station went critical while being serviced. There is a great [Atomic Energy Commission video on the whole incident on the Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.ntis.A13886VNB1). The other place the Mobot was used was [Jackass Flats, or “Area 25”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackass_Flats) in Nevada, right next to Yucca Mountain. Anyway, this Mobot is probably still a little bit radioactive so you might not want to buy it.

_Got a cool robot history lesson? Feel free to share it below._

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**Author:** ![emersonknapp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/emersonknapp/32/2969_2.png) [@emersonknapp](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/emersonknapp)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 8:55pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-update-for-the-week-of-7-20-2020/15589/2 "2020-07-24T20:55:00Z")

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Movie viewing party would be cool! I don’t know how it would work but I support this

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**Author:** ![gbiggs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/gbiggs/32/30361_2.png) [@gbiggs](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/gbiggs)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2020, 12:07pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-update-for-the-week-of-7-20-2020/15589/3 "2020-07-26T12:07:31Z")

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The Mobot looks like a robot from a parody of 50s scifi.

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**Author:** ![mkhansen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/mkhansen/32/3748_2.png) [@mkhansen](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/mkhansen)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 3:28pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-update-for-the-week-of-7-20-2020/15589/4 "2020-07-27T15:28:28Z")

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Kat,  
Thanks for these weekly updates, I try to follow Discourse regularly, but always miss some posts, and this summary always helps me catch up on the good ones I missed.

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**Author:** ![AirGar69](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/airgar69/32/17359_2.png) [@AirGar69](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/AirGar69)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 8:08pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-update-for-the-week-of-7-20-2020/15589/5 "2020-07-27T20:08:53Z")

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Aloha from Univ of Hawaii… Katherine, we also really appreciate these update summaries. big Mahalo, Gary

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**Author:** ![Katherine\_Scott](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/katherine_scott/32/4434_2.png) [@Katherine\_Scott](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/Katherine_Scott)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 9:51pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-update-for-the-week-of-7-20-2020/15589/6 "2020-07-27T21:51:19Z")

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Are y’all the group [working on this project?](https://twitter.com/JoeSpeeds/status/1287436699572682752) I would love to know more.

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**Author:** ![Luxonis-Brandon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/luxonis-brandon/32/6857_2.png) [@Luxonis-Brandon](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/Luxonis-Brandon)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 10:06pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-update-for-the-week-of-7-20-2020/15589/7 "2020-07-27T22:06:39Z")

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Yes! It’s such a small world… we are (Luxonis is) working with Gary (who is leading this project) on that as well! It is going to have an integrated OAK-D!

One of our engineers (Jon) is working closely with Gary from Univ of Hawaii, part of that is doing ROS2 integration of OAK-D as the whole system is ROS-based.

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**Author:** ![AirGar69](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/airgar69/32/17359_2.png) [@AirGar69](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/AirGar69)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 10:13pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-update-for-the-week-of-7-20-2020/15589/8 "2020-07-27T22:13:19Z")

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Aloha Katherine,

Yep, that is us…

Mahalo,

Gary Passon, AVT Program and Team leader of the University of Hawai’i – Autonomous Vehicle team

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**Author:** ![kneave](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/kneave/32/6768_2.png) [@kneave](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/kneave)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 2:34pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-update-for-the-week-of-7-20-2020/15589/9 "2020-07-29T14:34:14Z")

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Thanks for featuring my robot 🙂

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**Author:** ![Katherine\_Scott](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/katherine_scott/32/4434_2.png) [@Katherine\_Scott](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/Katherine_Scott)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 4:59pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-update-for-the-week-of-7-20-2020/15589/10 "2020-07-29T16:59:12Z")

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![input](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/2X/7/7ac8b5504654d69a58f789326573f70748650886.gif)

_I needed some input!_