NEWSLETTER
It seems it's time to dust off your presentation-making skills. The ROSCon 2025 website is now live, and as you will see below, the Embedded Linux Conference is holding a Robotics & Simulation track. I'm going to do my best to attend these two events, if you are there too and want to try to grab a coffee, please get in touch!
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Robotics & Simulation track at Embedded Linux Conference
Copper drone
The Folks behind Copper, a Rust-based runtime engine for robotics, created a nine part video tutorial on programming a multirotor with their framework.
Int-Ball2 ROS/Gazebo Simulator Released
JAXA released the source code and the simulator of Int-Ball2. The software is based on ROS Melodic. In the repo instructions, you will find how to run the simulation using Docker. To learn more about this work, check out the project repository.
Correct vs Good; Part 2
Back in the issue #304 we featured the first part of this article series. In this one, the author compares how the size of the company can matter in the correct vs good calculations, and how striving for correctness can kill a startup.
LeRobot goes to driving school: World’s largest open-source self-driving dataset
Hugging Face and Yaak announced Learning to Drive (L2D). According to the article, this is the largest multimodal dataset for autonomous driving. The dataset was collected in driving school and is divided into expert policies (driving instructor) and student policies (learner driver). The sensor suite consists of 6 RGB cameras, a GPS, an IMU, and data from the vehicle’s CAN interface.
10 Insights from 120,000+ PX4 Drone Logs Collected in 2024
Folks from Roboto analysed 123,227 Px4 Flight Review logs, and the output of the analysis is this article. From it, you can learn which countries uploaded the most logs, what was the most frequent error, and more!
Categorizing robots by performance fitness into the tree of robots
In this work, researchers from TUM took 11 industrial robot manipulators and created a “tree of robots”, a taxonomy that classifies robots based on their performance fitness for a specific process. Next time I have to use a robot manipulator in a project, I know where I’ll start the selection process!
ukmarsbot
Using inexpensive, readily available materials, components and techniques, the UK Micromouse and Robotics Society (UKMARS) has created a basic robot design that can be used in a variety of common contests such as line following, wall following, drag race and mini-sumo.
Events
- European Robotics Forum 2025: Mar 25 - Mar 27, 2025. Stuttgart, Germany
- RoboSoft 2025: Apr 23 - Apr 26, 2025. Lausanne, Switzerland
- Farm Robotics Challenge: Apr 24, 2025 (ddl: Dec 12, 2024). Davis, California, United States of America
- 7th International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering: Apr 28, 2025. Ottawa, Canada
- Robotics Summit & Expo 2025: Apr 30 - May 01, 2025. Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Automate 2025: May 12 - May 15, 2025. Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
- ICUAS (UAVs) 2025: May 14 - May 17, 2025. Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
- Xponential 2025: May 19 - May 22, 2025. Houston, Texas, United States of America
- ICRA 2025: May 19 - May 23, 2025. Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Eurobot Open 2025: May 28 - May 31, 2025. La Roche-sur-Yon, France
For more robotic events, check out our event page.