Development Tools / SDKs / Libraries

Researchers at MIT’s CSAIL released an open-source simulation engine that can construct environments to test autonomous vehicles.

The Horizon Hobot Platform consists of the company’s Sunrise chip, the TogetherROS operating system, Boxs reference algorithm, robot application examples and supporting development tools.

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.

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.

Developed by Universal Robots, PickNik Robotics and FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik, the driver is compatible across the entire line of UR cobots.

The partnership enables MOV.AI customers to quickly integrate Ouster LiDAR units into the AMR platform.

AMD’s Kria KR260 robotics starter kit is scalable and out-of-the-box development platform for robotics with native ROS 2 support.

Vention plans to use the funding to grow its go-to-market and accelerate the development of its hardware and software platform. 

Qualcomm’s Robotics RB6 Platform is made up of both hardware and software development tools and can make robotics development faster.

SLAMcore uses deep learning to help robots and drones identify physical space, objects and people around them to autonomously navigate the world.

The Toposens Processing Unit DK makes it easier to integrate the Toposens ultrasonic sensing technology into a customer’s existing platform.

Brian Gerkey, co-founder and CEO of Open Robotics, will discuss how companies are addressing interoperability and what options are available to vendors, end users, and integrators.

NVIDIA has over one million developers now deploying on Jetson with John Deere, Medtronic, Hyundai Robotics, Komatsu, Meituan among early adopters

With Onshape, MassRobotics’ startup community can leverage the latest in cloud product design software for robotics development.

Today’s device makers are caught between two opposing trends. On the one hand, legacy code continues to run in deployed systems. On the other hand, development tools — and developers — have continued to evolve. The challenge is how to bridge today’s developers to yesterday’s systems. A key technology in bridging legacy embedded systems with…

Adrian Macneil, co-founder and CEO of Foxglove, discusses the company’s spin-out from autonomous driving company Cruise, how its solutions differ from RViz, challenges of robotics development and the keys to running his startup.

Cogniteam said more of its customers are moving to NVIDIA’s GPU-accelerated technologies that can be developed and deployed through the cloud.

The RoboKit1 robotics development platform comes with ROS 1 and ROS 2 compatible drivers and software algorithms.

New small and easy to use high precision GNSS module is one more option for AMR, AV and drone positioning.

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