From Ruben Smits via ROS Discourse. Dear ROS community,. For developers who want to write robotic applications on the Android platform, or who want to extend their robot with new sensors for indoor positioning and 3D perception, Intermodalics created the ROS Streamer App for Tango.

From Davide Faconti. I would like to announce PlotJuggler, a Qt based application that allows the user to load, search and plot data. Many ROS user would use MATLAB or rqt_plot for this purpose, but these solutions might be frustrating to use when the data to be analyzed is considerably large.

We've reached another milestone for ROS Answers, 30000 questions asked! answers.ros.org_30000.png. The 30000th question was asked Friday by @Mani who regularly helps answer others questions as well. To see the many contributors to the site please view the list of users.

Announcing the release v0.6 of RAPP Platform and RAPP API. By Tully Foote on January 7, 2017 2:00 PM. From Manos Tsardoulias. We are happy to announce the v0.6 version of RAPP Platform and RAPP API, oriented to provide an online platform for delivering ready-to-use generic cloud services to ...

From Medium: Announcing alpha support for the PX4 flight stack in a path towards drones that speak ROS natively. The drones field is an interesting one to analyze from a robotics perspective. While capable flying robots are reasonably new, RC-hobbyists have been around for a much longer time ...

The annual ROS developer conference.

From Damon Kohler, Wolfgang Hess, and Holger Rapp, Google Engineering. We are happy to announce the open source release of Cartographer, a real-time SLAM library in 2D and 3D with ROS support. Cartographer builds globally consistent maps in real-time across a broad range of sensor configurations ...

From Péter Fankhauser via ros-users@: We'd like to announce our new Grid Map package, developed to manage two-dimensional grid maps with multiple data layers and designed for mobile robotic mapping in rough terrain navigation. The package is available for ROS Indigo, Jade, and Kinetic and can be ...

This summer, Risto Kojcev, sponsored by the Google Summer of Code (GSOC) and directed by the Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF) and the ROS-Industrial (ROS-I) Consortium developed a user friendly ROS Interface to control and change a manipulator into Cartesian Impedance control mode.