Announcing the Open Source Robotics Alliance
Open Robotics (OSRF) is pleased to announce the creation of the Open Source Robotics Alliance (OSRA). The OSRA is a new initiative from the OSRF to ensure the long-term stability and health of our open-source robot software projects.
Audrow Nash to step down from hosting the Sense, Think, Act podcast
Audrow Nash is moving on to the next phase of his podcasting career and will be stepping down as the host of the OSRF’s Sense, Think, Act podcast. Under Audrow’s masterful leadership and hosting, Sense, Think, Act has become one of the premier places to hear interviews with leaders in the world of robotics.
ROSCon 2023 Recap
ROSCon 2023, our twelfth annual ROS developers' conference, was held in New Orleans, Louisiana on October 18-20, 2023. The conference was a success, bringing together over 700 ROS developers from 42 countries to learn from each other and share the latest advances in ROS and robotics technology. We were also thrilled to see the Dronecode Foundation’s flagship PX4 Developers’ Summit hosted immediately after ROSCon in the same venue, allowing a number of attendees to attend both events and learn from others in a closely-related field (not to mention see a fantastic drone show put on by the Dronecode Foundation and UVify!).
Gazebo Harmonic Released!
The Gazebo team is happy to announce the 8th release of Gazebo, “Gazebo Harmonic”. This new release represents a year of development by our Gazebo developer community, and it is one of our biggest Gazebo releases yet! The release is jam packed full of new features, and we believe that most Gazebo users will be excited to upgrade as soon as possible! A complete list of features can be found in the release notes, but we wanted to take a moment to point out some of the highlights.
Google Summer of Code & Virtual RobotX
Meet Tejal, one of our Google Summer of Code students for 2023.
Gazebo 2023 Google Summer of Code
We’re really excited to announce our Google Summer of Code (GSoC) students for 2023. This year we are mentoring two GSoC students who are helping us with the development of new features for Gazebo that will hopefully make it into the Gazebo Harmonic release later this year. We asked the students to share a little bit about themselves and what they plan to work on over the summer.
ROS 2 Humble Now Available on TurtleBot 4
We are excited to announce that Clearpath Robotics, our partners in developing the TurtleBot 4, have released Humble Hawksbill packages for the TurtleBot 4! Humble Hawksbill is currently the latest long term support (LTS) version of ROS 2, and our recommended ROS distribution for those who wish to learn about ROS.
ROS 2 Iron Irwini Released!
Crikey, it’s that time of year already! May 23rd, World Turtle Day and ROS release day. Today we are happy to announce the ninth release of ROS 2, Iron Irwini! Iron is a short term release that will be supported until the end of November 2024. In accordance with REP-2000, ROS Iron supports three Tier 1 operating systems: Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish (both arm64 and amd64 architectures) and Windows 10. If you want to try it out, our installation instructions and tutorials are now up and ready to go on docs.ros.org.
Congratulations to our colleagues at Intrinsic!
This morning our colleagues at Intrinsic had their first product Keynote, which you can watch here. We are thrilled to congratulate Intrinsic on the launch of the Intrinsic platform and their new product Flowstate! We are pleased to see that our former Open Robotics colleagues are helping Intrinsic democratize access to robotics and that they are making progress towards this mission with the help of both ROS and Gazebo.
OSRF launches an official Discord server
To support those members of the community who prefer a real-time chat-based method of communication, OSRF has launched an official Discord server.
Announcing the OSRF Project Committee for Space ROS
Following the successful first two years of the collaboration between NASA, Blue Origin, and Open Robotics, the Open Source Robotics Foundation, as the steward of the project, is pleased to announce the launch of the Space ROS Project Committee.
Open-RMF Capabilities Extended in Collaboration with NCS
Open source works best when you have a strong community that embraces collaboration. We’re really excited to share that NCS (ncs.co) is one of those community members that saw the value of Open-RMF (open-rmf.org) and worked with us to extend and apply the open source platform in order to better support their specific needs in fleet management of security robots.
Countdown to ROSCon 2022
Eleven reasons to attend the eleventh annual ROSCon in Kyoto Japan.
SubT Part 5: Results and the Future
This is the final post in our SubT series, in which we’ll cover the results and where SubT is going now that the competition is over.
SubT Part 4: Cloudsim
Welcome to the fourth article in our five part SubT series. Today we will be covering Cloudsim, the open source application developed at Open Robotics to run Ignition on cloud infrastructure.
SubT Part 3: Ignition
This is the third article in our five part SubT series. In this article I’ll talk about Ignition, which provided the simulation capabilities for SubT.