Open Robotics

Wow! Just, wow! We just wrapped up our November Gazebo Community meeting featuring the competitors from the NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration SpaceROS Summer Sprint Challenge and the results were absolutely amazing! Our talks this month included: ?? CADRE: Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration” with Sanjay Jayalakshmi Prabakar. ?? spaceros_gz_demos with David Dorf and Katie Hughes ?? Rotor Model of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter with Davide Zamblera ?? Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Simulation and Control with Baris Yazici ?? Apollo 15 Lunar Roving Vehicle Simulation with Jasper Grant ?? LunarSim with Munir Azme ?? Custom Models and Gazebo plugins for Extraterrestrial Simulation with Jasmeet Singh ?? Lunar Pole Exploration Rover & Plugins with Robin BARAN and Stevedan Ogochukwu Omodolor ?? Generating Procedural Space Environments for Gazebo with Blender with Andrej Orsula Check out the full meeting on our Vimeo account: ?? https://lnkd.in/gdPEFWcY

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The recording of our ROSCon talk on rmw_zenoh is now available! Have you tried out the new middleware in your ROS 2 application? ?? https://lnkd.in/gVTR2vM3

Want to make a difference in the world of robotics? This Giving Tuesday, please consider supporting the Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF) and its mission to create a free and open future for robotics! ?? You can directly impact the future of robotics by helping fund: ?? Our software infrastructure costs ?? Improved ROS and Gazebo documentation ?? Educational programs like the Diversity Scholars Program Every contribution, big or small, helps the OSRF empower the global robotics community. Plus, many employers offer donation matching – double your impact! ?? To donate once or monthly, and designate your donation to a particular project, please visit the link below: ?? https://lnkd.in/gXqGCpn8

A Columbia Engineering team developed a robot learning system that combines the sense of touch with sight, giving machines a new level of dexterity and precision — complete with an Arduino Nano-based tactile integrated soft gripper design.

???? ???????? ?????????????? ???? ???????????? ?????? ????????, learn all about the ??????????????????, a powerful microdrone, by the Malmo-based Bitcraze AB directly from Kimberly McGuire. ????????! ?? Get the inside scoop behind the Aerial Robotics Community Work Group hosted by Bitcraze + Dronecode in coordination with Open Robotics. https://lnkd.in/gicQQCGu

We are excited to announce the winners of one of our latest NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration challenges: NASA Space ROS Sim Summer Sprint! This challenge, launched in July 2024 with a total prize purse of $30,000 USD, aimed to advance the Space ROS initiative by developing high-level demo environments incorporating real-world data simulations, dynamics and system enhancements. Congratulations to our top winners: 1st Place: “Space ROS Gazebo Demos” - Katie Hughes, David Dorf? 2nd Place: “Parallel ProcGen Environments” - Andrej Orsula 3rd Place: “Space-ROS-NVIDIA-Isaac-Sim Curiosity's Sulfur Stone Discovery”- Po-Jen Wang, Alexander Kalmykov 4th Place: “Mars Rover Demo on NVIDIA ISAAC with RVIZ-based Teleop and a Controller Loader” - Philip Saidely, Abhinesh Srivastava, Abhi Anuket 5th place (tied): “Ingenuity Flight Simulation” - Baris Yazici? 5th place (tied): “Ingenuity Coaxial Helicopter Model” - Davide Zamblera Honorable mentions: “IsaacSim Integration of Curiosity Rover Demo” - Adithya Selvakumar “Improving fidelity of SSRMS Demo with Trick”- Blazej Fiderek “Exploration Rover & Plugins” - Robin BARAN, Stevedan Ogochukwu Omodolor “CADRE Demo: Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration” - Sanjay Jayalakshmi Prabakar “Apollo 15 Lunar Roving Vehicle Simulation” - Jasper Grant This challenge was run on behalf of NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, in collaboration with Matt Hansen and Ibility LLC, and with support from #ROS2 and Open Robotics community. To learn more about the challenge, visit: https://lnkd.in/gxZnRdhj

Who's excited for ROSCon India?

Zenoh [1] is a new communication middleware that ZettaScale Technology has developed. eSOL has been porting Zenoh-pico [2] to micro-ROS [3]. Zenoh-pico is Zenoh’s implementation for microcontrollers. -?RMW layer for Zenoh-pico [2]: ???????- Using Zenoh-pico version: 0.11.0 ???????- README.md is a tutorial. ??-?micro-ROS setup for Zenoh-pico [4]: ???????- Based micro-ROS branch: jazzy It's still experimental but It works on generic (Linx) or Raspbian platforms of micro-ROS. #ros #ros2 #microros #zenoh #zenohpico #opensource #middleware #microcontrollers #rmw [1] https://zenoh.io/ [2] https://lnkd.in/dZ7McByk [3] https://micro.ros.org/ [4] https://lnkd.in/dJNQWnAi

Did you catch Deanna Hood, MSc's ROSCon 2024 keynote titled "Saving lives sooner: leveraging ROS 2 for end-stage kidney disease? The team at Vexev just announced their first feasibility?study in the US! Congratulations to the entire Vexev team! https://lnkd.in/gGYiTBta