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Our mission is to support development, distribution, and adoption of open source software like #ROS and #Gazebo for use in the robotics industry. Formerly OSRF.
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🚨We need your help to test the next release of
@GazeboSim
, codenamed Ionic!
If you are looking to contribute to open source software this a great place to start, and we'll recognize you in the release notes and potentially send you some swag.👕
Instructions are in this thread:
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Today we are proud to announce that we are starting development on ROS 3!
ROS 3 will be first "blockchain native" ROS release and will coincide with the release of ROSCoin, a crypto-security built on the ROS blockchain.
Read our whitepaper here:
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Best use of ROS in 2023 so far!
One of our biggest projects yet... mark your calendars, it comes out on Saturday at 12PM EST!
If you can't wait, our youtube members get to see it right now!
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🎉We're happy to announce the formation of the new Open Source Robotics Alliance, which will orchestrate and fund the future development of our open source projects.
Big thanks to our inaugural platinum members
@NVIDIARobotics
and
@IntrinsicAI
.
Details:
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We made this helpful diagram on how to spell the second version of ROS.
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ROSCon 2020 is canceled.
-HOWEVER-
ROS WORLD 2020 IS STILL TAKING PLACE!!!
We're planning an on-line only ROS event for November 12th. 2020. It will be free and open to the entire ROS community. Get all the details on ROS Discourse.
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🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
ANNOUNCING ROS 2: FOXY FIZTROY!!!
It runs on Ubuntu 20.04, OSX, and Windows 10 with three years of support. Learn about all of the features and where to download the binaries in this blog post:
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We would like to introduce you to ROS 2 Humble Hawksbill!
Humble is the latest ROS 2 release with support until 2027! This ROS release cones with lots of upgrades and improvements and we are sure you'll love it!
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⚠️We don't know who needs to hear this, but it is "ROS 2" not "ROS2"!⚠️
We can't stress this enough. We use "ROS 2" in all of our official docs, communications, and in our official brand guide.
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Need a tool to export your robot's CAD files to
@GazeboSim
and
@rosorg
?
Check out RoboCAD, a
@FreeCADNews
plugin that allows you to import and export common ROS and Gazebo file types, complete with collision and inertia information.
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ROSCon 2022 will by October 19th thru 22nd in Kyoto Japan. Stay tuned for details. ⛩️🏯🇯🇵🤖
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Space ROS is happening! You heard it here first! 🤖🚀🛰️☄️🪐🌑
#ROSWorld
.
Open-source software is going to the moon!
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AR-RViz is a new ROS package for ROS 1 and ROS 2 that allows you to overlay your ROS RViz data in an augmented reality environment. The app works in both iOS and Android.
More details on ROS Discourse.
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🎉Happy world 🐢 day!
𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗢𝗦 𝟮 𝗜𝗿𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗿𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗶!
This release is notable for both its size and the amount of support we've received from the
#ROS
community!
Details at:
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#ROSCon2023
is a wrap! Thanks to all 700+ of you from 42 countries who showed up.
We look forward to seeing you in Odense Denmark next October!
☮️🩷🤖
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🥳🐢🤖
It is world turtle day! That means a ROS Release!
We're proud to announce the final ROS 1 LTS Release: Noetic Ninjemys. We want to thank everyone for their contributions and support! Find out all the details here:
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Its not ROS but check out this super slick hexapod robot simulator with forward and inverse kinematic solver.
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We regret to inform you that ROS 1 Melodic Morenia is officially end of life as of 2023-04-01.
Melodic was a fantastic distro, and many will mourn its passing.
However, hope springs eternal, and now is a fantastic time to switch to ROS 2 Humble.
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🚀Big news for Space ROS!
@NASA
has put together a Space ROS Summer Sprint Challenge with
@freelancer
! All pull requests to the Space ROS GitHub repo between now and Sept. 11th are eligible for a US$10,000 prize.
Full details at:
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As teased at ROSCon 2023, our friends and colleagues at
@clearpathrobots
have released the full set of design files for the PR2 robot!
These design files include all of the electrical and mechanical CAD files, schematics, and cabling diagrams.
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Today we’re happy to announce that the OSRC team at Open Robotics has become part of
@Intrinsicai
! This change will accelerate
#ROS
, Gazebo, and Open-RMF development and allow the OSRF to better serve the community.
Get the full details at:
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Looking for an affordable ROS 2 robot for education?
Our friends at
@ekumenlabs
have created Andino, an open-source diff drive robot based on ROS 2 that costs less than $300 to build.
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Today is our tenth birthday! 🎂 On this special occasion, we take a look back at all we've accomplished and the community that has made it all possible.
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Guess what open source software library is going to be powering all of
@Toyota
's autonomous vehicles!
Congratulations
@ApexAI_Inc
! We're so proud of your hard work and determination. We look forward to seeing what comes next.
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🎉ROS 2 Jazzy Jalisco is here!🎉
🕰️Jazzy is a long term support release with a 5 year support window.
💯Jazzy has a ton of great new features that we're sure ROS developers will enjoy.
💕Big thanks to our community, contributors, and testers!
Info at:
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A brigade of TurtleBots!
What would you do with this many TurtleBots?
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Our friend
@youtalk
and the team from
@pfrobotics
came by for lunch today.
Their new Kachaka robot helped us clean up! The Kachaka is presently available in Japan and has a
#ROS
2 API.
More details here:
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AWS has just released a number of Gazebo simulation worlds for testing and debugging your robot applications. The number of free high-fidelity simulation environments keeps growing!
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Are you looking for a web-based alternative to RVIZ for both ROS 1 and ROS 2? Check out ROSBoard, it has lots of great features and a slick user interface.
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We are proud to announce that our paper, "Robot Operating System 2: Design, architecture, and uses in the wild" was just published in
@SciRobotics
. This paper is a collaboration with
@OTTOMotors
and
@Samsung_RA
.
Read all about it here:
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When you finally get semantic segmentation running on your robot at 60FPS.
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First San Francisco Open Robotics meetup was a success. Thanks
@noisebridge
@Dronecode
@Hacksterio
@opencvweekly
.
What should we do for September?
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Learning ROS is part of becoming a Gundam pilot. Just saying.
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Up for a little weekend reading about simulation software?
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Modern problems require modern solutions!
Our friend
@NeaveEng
had a problem: he lost a wrench in the subfloor of his shop.
His solution? Create a custom robot to rescue his beloved wrench.
Read more about it here:
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We're are happy to announce our first official ROSCon in India🇮🇳!
ROSCon India will take place December 14th and 15th at
@artparkindia
in Bangalore!
Get your talks ready! The CFP goes out September 1st!
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Did you catch the huge all-weather autonomous vehicle ROSBag data set that
@ford
released yesterday? This morning they released the pre-print publication. You should check it out!
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🚨We just launched
#TurtleBot4
Pre-orders!🚨
We've been working with
@clearpathrobots
to build the best TurtleBot yet! This is the first TurtleBot to run ROS 2 from the ground up, and it comes with a great set of features.
Specs and details here:
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When the said walking desk are the new standing desks this isn't what they meant.
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The ESP32 is fun little system on a chip with a microprocessor, wifi, and bluetooth, at a rock bottom price point. Guess what! It now runs microROS! Get all the details here:
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Have you ever wondered how a ROS release is made? We made this exciting video of the ROS 2 Eloquent Elusor release happening!!! So majestic! 🐢🐢🐢🎉🎉🎉🤖🤖🤖
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ROS 2 Foxy and ROS 1 Melodic are end of life at the end of the month.
ROS 1 Noetic goes end of life in two 2025
We recommend that you start planning your ROS 2 transition as soon as possible.
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The memes will continue until the abbreviation improves.
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ROS + SPOT?!?
We are excited to announce that we have teamed up with
@BostonDynamics
to offer a
#ROS
Package for Spot. Academic and corporate robotics researchers can now get a ROS-enabled, fully-integrated Spot robot from Clearpath. Read more here:
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🎉We're bringing back in-person ROSCon in 2021!🎉
Please join us October 21st through 23rd in New Orleans for ROSCon 2021! We're presently soliciting community ideas and looking for sponsors. Get all the details on ROS Discourse.
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We don't need to translate the text.
We've all been there.
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🌩️
#ROSWORLD
Lightning Talk🌩️
"Open3D is an open source library from Intel for rapid development of software that deals with 3D data. It provides both C++ and Python interfaces with similar or better performance than PCL."
cc:
@arlteam
/
@n_khedekar
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👏 SIMULATED👏 ROBOT👏 DANCE 👏 OFF 👏
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Hey Students! We just announced our projects for Google Summer of Code 2021! This year we'll have nin projects split between
@rosorg
and
@GazeboSim
. Find out all the details on ROS Discourse
#GSoC2021
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Our friends at
@nvidia
just announced a new CUDA libraries for the Point Cloud Library (PCL). These updates can increase performance by 10x on the right hardware. Get all the details here:
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"A dance that encourages people who are still using ROS1 to reflect."
This is also your periodic reminder that ROS 1 Noetic goes end of life in 2025.
If you are not planning your ROS 1 to ROS 2 transition, you should be.
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Great News!
The Gazebo simulator is moving from Bitbucket to
@github
, and off of Mercurial. We're hoping to make this transition as painless as possible but there are a lot of things you should know. Find out more here:
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Hey
#ROS
developers!
The
#ROSCon2023
videos and slides are now online! They're free and a great resource to learning about ROS.
You can find them on the ROSCon website:
And on Vimeo:
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🚨🌛🤖🚀🚀🚨
Big news! ROS 2 is going to the moon!
@NASA
is using ROS 2 as part of the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) mission. Learn all about the rover and its mission here:
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This python package to convert a YAML specifications to wiring diagrams looks like it is a really handy tool for documenting your robot.
Good hardware documenation is just as important as software documentation!
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Check out this cool new 17DOF robot that was just posted on ROS Discourse. All of the software is open source and it runs ROS.
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Amazon is all in on ROS 2. They do a great job articulating all of the advantages of using ROS 2 in robotic application development. Check it out.
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Looking for alternatives to
@IntelRealSense
? Here are a few:
👁️
@luxonis
OAK-D
👁️
@occipital
Structure Sensor
👁️
@Azure
Kinect
👁️Fusion Sens
👁️Mynt Eye
👁️
@Sony
Depth Sens
👁️
@Asus
Xtion
Did we miss something? Add it here:
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As fleets of robots become more common managing their interactions with each other and their environment becomes a challenge. That's why we're developing Robotic Middleware for Healthcare, or RoMi-H, a layer on top of ROS 2 for fleet management.
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Here is your
#ROS
news for this week:
🎉 New TSC community Reps
🎉 ROSCon Recap
🎉
@nvidia
Nova Carter robot
🎉 Gazebo community meets with
@o3dengine
🎉
@oshwassociation
on hardware in academia
🎉 ROS in Asia
🎉 Racecars with ROS 2
🎉 Lots more!!!
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It is great pride and a heavy heart that we announce the 11th and final release of
@GazeboSim
. Find out about the new features and get the code here:
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We're working with
@linuxfoundation
,
@AWSOpen
and a few others to kick start the Open 3D Foundation. The plan is to develop a new Open 3D Engine (O3DE) as an alternative to proprietary rendering technologies. Learn more about this work here:
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You know what makes our day?
When we get an awesome pull request!
Check out this PR for joint trajectory controler plugin for Igntion /
@GazeboSim
. It makes it possible to couple
#MoveIt
2 with Ignition Gazebo.
Take a look at the source code:
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Congratulations to our colleagues at
@PickNikRobotics
on the launch of the new MoveIt Studio!
MoveIt studio should make it much easier to use
#ROS2
to build complex behaviors using robotic arms.
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Check out this nifty PID tuner web app.
This app is a great alternative to the customary procedure of holding onto the actuator and fiddling with the values until everything seems to move smoothly.
🤣😬😐
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ROS 2 Rust 0.4 has been released! 🦀🦀🦀
New features:
🦀 Support for parameters
🦀Support for Iron
🦀Serde big array support
🦀Loading introspection type support
🦀Extend string type
🦀Add time source and clock API
🦀Removed Galactic & Foxy
Details
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#ROSCon2022
is a wrap! We want to thank all of our speakers, sponsors, attendees, and staff for making the event a success.
For those staying on for
#IROS2022
come by the
@clearpathrobots
booth to meet with us and check out the new Turtlebot4!
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If you want to learn about legged robots there is now a
#ROS
interface to the Champ quadraped controller. It is worth taking a look at.
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This looks really useful for robotic agriculture simulations!
CropCraft
A Procedural World Generator for Robotics Simulation of Agricultural Tasks
> CropCraft is a python script that allows to generate 3D models of crop fields specialized for real-time simulation of robotics application.
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