v1.11.0

[stephane-caron]

This release adds 6 robot descriptions thanks to @lvjonok and @kevinzakka 👍 It also renames iiwa descriptions (to account for the 7-kg and 14-kg payload capacity variants), and bumps the minimum Python version to 3.9 (most loaders will still work with 3.8).

Added

• Description: KUKA iiwa 7 (URDF)
• Description: Unitree G1 (MJCF) (thanks to @kevinzakka)
• Description: Unitree G1 (URDF) (thanks to @lvjonok)
• Description: Boston Dynamics Spot (MJCF) (thanks to @kevinzakka)
• Description: Franka Robotics FR3 (MJCF) (thanks to @kevinzakka)
• Description: WidowX 250 6-DOF (MJCF) (thanks to @kevinzakka)

Changed

• Bump minimum Python version to 3.9
• CICD: Pin NumPy version to <2 for PyBullet and yourdfpy
• CICD: Update ruff to 0.2.2
• Rename iiwa_description to iiwa14_description
• Rename iiwa_mj_description to iiwa14_mj_description
• Update repository for iiwa14_description to drake_models

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This discussion was created from the release v1.11.0.