ROS / Open Source Solutions

Motional’s nuReality set of VR environments are designed to study interactions between autonomous vehicles and pedestrians.

The first autonomous race at Indy Motor Speedway was a huge success and great entertainment.

The mobile base of TurtleBot 4 is built on the iRobot Create 3 educational robot, which provides an IMU, optical floor tracking sensor, and wheel encoders for accurate positioning and localization.

MuJoCo, which stands for Multi-Joint Dynamics with Contact, has been the physics simulator of choice for DeepMind’s robotics team.

Fortress, the sixth major release of the Ignition Gazebo simulation software, is a long-term release that will be supported until September 2026.

Cogniteam said Nimbus OS eases integration of spatial awareness tools, obstacle identification, navigation systems, cameras, LiDAR, and more.

Centralized toolbox includes SDKs, APIs and ready-to-use code for roboticists looking to build scalable robots.

NVIDIA and Open Robotics are enabling ROS 2 to run on Jetson processors for perception, modeling, and training to ease robotics development.

New support allows full integration of vision-based 3D mapping in ROS 2 designs.

MOV.ai and Velodyne deliver a complete navigation package for ROS-based AMR solutions.

ROSCon was scheduled to take place in New Orleans on October 21-23. But Louisiana currently has the highest case rate in the U.S.

Unity is supporting ROS 2 due to “significant advancements and support of more hardware drivers, networking modules, communication architecture, and several robot algorithms.”

Droidlet enables researchers to build robots that accomplish tasks either in the real world or in simulated environments like Minecraft or Habitat.

Created at NASA’s JPL, the open-source flight software called F Prime powered humanity’s first interplanetary helicopter.

NVIDIA releases the Isaac Sim version of its NVIDIA Omniverse simulation software, including new features to help train machine learning models.

This seventh version of ROS 2 is an interim release will be supported until November 2022.

Some new features enabled by ROS 2 include decreased latency, improved security, and more flexibility with middleware configuration.

For more than ten years, the Robot Operating System (ROS) has been enabling innovators around the world to develop robot platforms and applications. Through its collection of tools, libraries, and conventions, ROS simplifies the task of creating complex and robust robot behavior. Ubuntu has been the primary platform for ROS from the very beginning. That…

The ROS 2 package is compatible with the Doosan Robot Language, so operators who are familiar with Doosan but have basic ROS knowledge can create robotics application.

Over the past few years, you’ve likely heard mobile manipulation is a trend to watch. Perhaps advances being made in a variety of enabling technologies – sensors, controls, power – are finally making mobile manipulation a reality. There have been at least three mobile manipulators introduced within the past month. Boston Dynamics certainly had the…

Canonical and Open Robotics announced a 10-year partnership around extended security maintenance (ESM) and enterprise support for the Robot Operating System (ROS). ROS support will be made available as an option to Ubuntu Advantage support customers. Open Robotics is the organization behind ROS. Users already taking advantage of critical security updates and common vulnerabilities and…

Open Robotics released the latest version of its Gazebo simulator, called Edifice. The release includes the latest rendering features, as well as new sensors and controllers.