Weekly Robotics #334

Issue 334

Today’s issue is on the shorter side on account of me being at ROSCon. If you are attending, come say hi to me at the Foxglove booth. I should have some stickers!

Join us at the PX4 Developer Summit! [Sponsored]

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PX4 Developer Summit

Lightyear Robotics M1 Quadruped

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The other day, Lightyear Robotics announced this wheeled-quadruped robot. It has an interesting design with articulated joints at the hips, which should make it easier to traverse all obstacles. Good stuff!

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Copper now also runs on baremetal microcontrollers: same robotic runtime, no OS.

copper-rs, a Rust-based robotics middleware project that I’ve been following for a couple of years, boasts bare-metal embedded support. Great news for the Rust community in robotics!

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Hugging Face Robotics Course

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Hugging Face just announced a LeRobot-aligned free robotics course:

This free course will take you on a journey, from classical robotics to modern learning-based approaches, in understanding, implementing, and applying machine learning techniques to real robotic systems. This course is based on the Robot Learning Tutorial, which is a comprehensive guide to robot learning for researchers and practitioners. Here, we are attempting to distill the tutorial into a more accessible format for the community.

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rosetta

Since we are on the topic of LeRobot, rosetta is a ROS 2 package that standardizes the interface between ROS 2 topics and LeRobot policies using a small YAML contract. I’m looking forward to seeing how the community is going to embrace it.

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Pixi: Modern package management for Robotics

Recently, I was playing around with distrobox for handling multiple ROS environments, but having read this piece, I’m really eager to try Pixi as an alternative to Docker for ROS 2.

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Caltech and Technology Innovation Institute Demo Multirobot Response Team

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A humanoid robot carrying a multirotor-morphing-into-rover on its back to later deploy it? Sounds like an interesting project. I’m not sure I can think of a real-world application, though.

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Autonomous Drone Landing on HIGH-SPEED Truck

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This video introduces the DART-UAV, a drone capable of landing on targets moving at up to 110 km/h. This is an exciting challenge, as the drone needs to be inclined, descend quickly, level, and use reverse thrust to stay ‘glued’ to the car. Nicely executed!

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