This week, we talk to Brian Gerkey the co-founder and CEO of Open Robotics about ROS and open source software.

Analog Devices, Inc. announced the industry’s first high-resolution, industrial quality, indirect Time-of-Flight (iToF) module for 3D depth sensing and vision systems.

The new software suite is designed to reduce the programming effort of new robotic solutions.

MiR said the new software lays a foundation for faster missions, tighter integration and enhanced cybersecurity.

The fully containerized Ubuntu 22.04 LTS release introduces support for real-time compute in robotics and industrial applications.

SICK has launched a product called Monitoring Box that enables access to sensor data for cloud-based condition monitoring.

PickNik Robotics and Optimax Systems released a ROS 2 driver for ABB manipulators. The package has been tested with an ABB IRB 1200-5/0.9 manipulator.

Realtime Robotics’s software streamlines production of complex cells with offline programming that synchronizes to live operations.

Ready Robotics’ Forge/OS 5 universal operating system now works with NVIDIA’s Omniverse Isaac Simulator. NVIDIA also made an undisclosed investment into Ready Robotics.

Watch a live demo of the Spot quadruped and how the captured data can be streamed into Formant’s platform and displayed for custom visualization.

Kenco’s collaboration with SVT and Locus Robotics has made deploying autonomous mobile robots seamless, significantly easier, and faster.

Available as a complete out-of-the-box system or as individual components, the OnRobot Palletizer is compatible with cobots and light industrial robots from Doosan, FANUC, OMRON, Techman and Universal Robots.

The iRobot OS works on the Roomba j7 and j7+ robot vacuums, and leverages feedback from iRobot’s over 20 million connected devices sold.

MuJoCo, which stands for Multi-Joint Dynamics with Contact, is a physics engine that aims to facilitate R&D in robotics, biomechanics, graphics and animation.

Humble Hawksbill is a long-term support (LTS) release that will be supported until May 2027. It is the first ROS 2 release on Ubuntu 22.04

Sapera Vision Software from Teledyne DALSA offers field proven image acquisition, control and image processing.

With more than 40 locations, Daimler Truck is one of the largest commercial vehicle manufacturing company in the world. 

Intel develops advanced simulation solutions to help bridge the gap from virtual to real-world environments for off-road vehicles.

Developed for maximum flexibility and uncompromising safety, the highly configurable software stack significantly accelerates the implementation of unmanned systems to boost operating efficiency and profitability

With its latest tool, InOrbit wanted to solve a problem that existed specifically in autonomous mobile robot deployments.

Software uses vision technology to deliver 70% increase in speed and 50% increase in accuracy for select ABB industrial robots.

Collaborative solution to provide both the machine vision computing and software platform developers need to build and deploy mobile robots.