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 snapshot of the growth and composition of the ROS community. There were a lot of changes to the ROS Community this year that required us to retool our metrics collection process. In April of 2023 our web...

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. If you live in the area and do perception work I encourage swinging by. It is free to walk the floor. Phil from OpenCV and myself are going to head over on Tuesday if you want to meet up. We had two ...

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-Life in 2025! With Rolling moving over Ubuntu 24.04 ROS 2 will no longer support Gazebo Classic. If you are not thinking about upgrading to the latest version now is the time! We’re currently trying ...

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 their products this week. CES was also the venue for the Indy Autonomous Challenge Race (according to this tweet TUM won the competition.) The IAC also released their new vehicle. The fine folk...

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 should make the videos easier to share: bit.ly/ROSCon23Vids. To aid discoverability on ROS Discourse I’ve pasted links to all of the talks at the bottom of the post that you can also use. Along with the...

Valve's Steam Deck is sold as a video game console, but could it also be the best new tool for robotics development? Or is it just a gimmick?💬 Join the disc...

Flappy Bird ROS Simulation in Gazebo. Contribute to ldtalent/flappy_bird_gazebo development by creating an account on GitHub.

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 gives you the chance to see the newest technical developments and to meet people and companies, which are active in the ROS community. Venue: July 4-5, 2023 The conference takes place at Parc des Exp...

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… Nothing. point_cloud_transport was not there. But that’s no longer true! I’m happy to announce that today’s Noetic sync (and the next Melodic sync) brings point_cloud_transport - ROS Wiki for everyb...