🚀 Distro 2020.11 Released

[Nicogene]

Brief description of the announcement

Hello @robotology/everyone 👋

iCub-Tech is happy to announce our Software Distro 2020.11 📦

This is a major release that comprises binary packages as well. Therefore, follow the instructions available in the wiki to upgrade your system and/or download the new dependencies.

You can find the tags composing this distro in our Software Versioning Table.

The binaries cover the following platforms:

• Ubuntu bionic 64-bits.
• Ubuntu focal 64-bits.
• Debian buster 64-bits.
• Windows 10 64-bits.

Detailed context

This distro is shipped with several updates and fixes, including the ones listed hereafter:

🆕 Updates

💥 iCub 3 urdf models

This release adds a first version of iCub 3 (a.k.a iCubGenova09) urdf model. 🤖
You can find it downloading the latest version of icub-models

This is the very first model completely built through the procedure we designed (see here for reference) for generating the urdf starting from the CAD.

This model has been created with tight collaboration with the @robotology/iit-dynamic-interaction-control group, which gave us useful feedback during the process🙏 .

💥 iCub v2.x new urdf models

Recently, new versions of iCub have been released(v2.6 and v2.7, see here the [versioning][table] ), with this release, we added the corresponding urdf models, in order to allow to test these new versions of iCub in simulation.
In particular, we created the urdf models called respectively iCubGazeboV2_6 and iCubGazeboV2_7 that carry the new features mounted on the real robots(e.g. new/additional imus etc.).

💥 App deployment

A list of brand new applications have been added to our robot-bazaar

1. Face Landmarks and Pose Detection (link)
2. Face and Gaze Tracking (link)
3. Gazebo Grasping Sandbox (link)
4. Grasp the Ball Application in Gazebo (link)
5. Google speech-to-text (link)
6. Google Speech Processing (link)
7. Google text-to-speech (link)
8. Google Dialog (link)
9. Google Speech Application (link)
10. Google Vision AI (link)
11. Superbuild PyTorch Application (link)
12. Superbuild Tensorflow (link)
13. Camera Pan Calibration (link)

💥 Audio support included by default in robotology-superbuild

This release added support to automatically compile all the YARP devices required for audio support on iCub.

This means that the YARP devices AudioPlayerWrapper, AudioRecorderWrapper, portaudioPlayer and portaudioRecorder are now
enabled by default in the superbuild without the need of manually enabling YARP options, and they are included
in the Windows binary installers as well.