
The Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF) this week announced the launch of the similarly named Open Source Robotics Alliance (OSRA).

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Nvidia and Qualcomm join Open Source Robotics Alliance to support ROS development
The Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF) this week announced the launch of the similarly named Open Source Robotics Alliance (OSRA).
Download the full report here: metrics-report-2024-01.pdf (2.9 MB) Once a year we check up on the general health, well-being, and growth of the ROS community by collecting metrics from the various ROS projects and services in a report. The goal of this metrics report is to give the community a sna...
ROS News for January 22nd, 2024 Our January Gazebo Community Meeting is next Wednesday. We’ll be discussing simulating drone inspection of wind turbines Our ROS Meetup in Singapore happens next week. They’ve got two great speakers lined up. Photonics West is next week in San Francisco....
ROS News for the week of January 15th, 2024 We’ve got a ROS By-the-Bay scheduled for next Thursday! Our next Gazebo Community Meeting will on January 31st and include a talk about using ROS 2, Gazebo, and Aerostack to build drones for wind turbine inspection Gazebo Classic is End-of...
ROS News for January 8th, 2024 CMU dropped their ROS-based “Autonomous Navigation Development Environment” this week. It is definitely worth a look. We’re going to have them do a demo at the March Gazebo community meeting. It was CES this week and a lot of ROS companies released ...
⚜️ ROSCon 2023 Videos and Slides Now Available! - General - ROS Discourse
ROSCon 2023 Videos and Slides Now Available Hi Everyone, I am happy to announce that the videos and slides from ROSCon 2023 are now available online. You can find everything on the ROSCon website and in the OSRF Vimeo Showcase of the event. We’ve also created a short link for the videos that sho...
Articulated Robotics: I program robots with a video game console
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Flappy Bird ROS Simulation in Gazebo | GitHub - ldtalent/flappy_bird_gazebo
Flappy Bird ROS Simulation in Gazebo. Contribute to ldtalent/flappy_bird_gazebo development by creating an account on GitHub.
Checkout the author's blog post on how they developed this repository and the hurdles they overcame:
The 11th edition of ROS-Industrial Conference will take place in Bordeaux in colocation with RoboCup and ROSCon France. It is not only the annual community meeting for the European ROS-Industrial community but also an opportunity to learn more about the ROS and its use in industry. The conference gi...
If you’ve ever worked with images in ROS, you’ve met image_transport, a library that hides a lot of complexity of image de/compression, leaving you a nice interface via which you can dynamically decide how your images should be transported. If you’ve ever worked with pointclouds in ROS, you’ve met…...
ROS-I Consortium 2023 - Americas Annual Meeting - Detroit | Youtube Playlist
This is the video playlist for speaker presentations captured during the May 25th ROS-Industrial Consortium 2023 Annual Meeting. #RICA2023
Robotics simulators should provide accurate physics, photorealism, a diverse range of sensors and provide ample resources for robot models and environment objects. We use Webots with ROS SLAM Toolbox for an AMR application. Read more to find out how.
ROS2 and PX4 Tutorial | Simulated Offboard Mode
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Hello, I wanted to let the ROS community know that we have just released the ROS1 plugin for Zenoh. This provides optimised mapping over Zenoh, e.g. mapping actions on Zenoh’s queryables, and beside allowing you to do R2X over any network, it opens the door of interworking with ROS2 via the Zenoh D...
A chatGPT demo based on Mini Pupper 2 with ROS2 Humble
This repo is a chatGPT demo based on Mini Pupper 2 with ROS2 Humble. - GitHub - mangdangroboticsclub/chatgpt-minipupper2-ros2-humble: This repo is a chatGPT demo based on Mini Pupper 2 with ROS2 H...
Hello all, In my free time over the last month I have been building AR-RViz, an open source tool that allows you to view robot data in augmented reality. The app is available for iOS and Android(untested) and works with ROS and ROS 2(limited testing) with the only robot side dependency being ros-t...
🎉 ROSCon 2023 Registration and Workshop 🎉 Hi everyone! On Monday we released our first batch of ROSCon sponsors and today I am happy to announce that the ROSCon workshops have been posted and we’ve opened up ROSCon registration and our hotel block. 🎉 👏 We 👏 recommend 👏 that 👏 you 👏 reg...
Major tech news outlet references ROS in Robotic hardware review
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Crossposted from here, as it's cool to see ShortCircuit briefly reference ROS in a consumer tech video:
ROS News for the week of June 12th, 2023 This week we announced our first batch of ROSCon sponsors, the ROSCon workshops, and opened up registration! I suggest you register early! Last year workshops and the event itself sold out. I’ve been working with the ROS Munich community and TUM to...
ROS on the Steam Deck
Not a question, more of a comment… 🤣 It works a treat! I have up on the package manager as I’m new to Arch Linux but installing Noetic using RoboShack and its worked a treat! I got my Turtlebot 3 up and running, got teleop working using the built in controllers, and fired up the SLAM package on t...
Running ROS on the Steam Deck is indeed possible, unlocking a world of opportunities for robotics enthusiasts and professionals. Currently, I am working on integrating the Steam Deck into a system that records multiple sensory inputs (LiDAR, RGBD, IMU, GNSS) into a rosbag, offering portability and real-time monitoring. This setup allows us to assess data quality on the fly, ensuring reliable and accurate results.
I believe the Steam Deck holds immense potential for application in the field of robotics. What other projects do you think could take advantage of the Steam Deck's capabilities?