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 adds NVIDIA Isaac GEMs to robotics development platform
Cogniteam said more of its customers are moving to NVIDIA’s GPU-accelerated technologies that can be developed and deployed through the cloud.
TDK unveils RoboKit1 robotics development platform
The RoboKit1 robotics development platform comes with ROS 1 and ROS 2 compatible drivers and software algorithms.
Point One, Quectel making mobile robotics positioning more precise
New small and easy to use high precision GNSS module is one more option for AMR, AV and drone positioning.
Motional open-sources VR environments for autonomous vehicle research
Motional’s nuReality set of VR environments are designed to study interactions between autonomous vehicles and pedestrians.
TUM Autonomous Motorsport wins the Indy Autonomous Challenge
The first autonomous race at Indy Motor Speedway was a huge success and great entertainment.
DeepMind acquires MuJoCo physics engine for robotics R&D
MuJoCo, which stands for Multi-Joint Dynamics with Contact, has been the physics simulator of choice for DeepMind’s robotics team.
Open Robotics releases Ignition Fortress simulation software
Fortress, the sixth major release of the Ignition Gazebo simulation software, is a long-term release that will be supported until September 2026.
Cogniteam Nimbus OS aims to ease robotics development
Cogniteam said Nimbus OS eases integration of spatial awareness tools, obstacle identification, navigation systems, cameras, LiDAR, and more.
InOrbit launches robotics development portal
Centralized toolbox includes SDKs, APIs and ready-to-use code for roboticists looking to build scalable robots.
Woven Planet buys Renovo to improve autonomous vehicle software
Woven Planet said this acquisition will play a key role in the development of its Arene vehicle development platform.
How NVIDIA, Open Robotics are improving ROS 2
NVIDIA and Open Robotics are enabling ROS 2 to run on Jetson processors for perception, modeling, and training to ease robotics development.
SLAMcore spatial intelligence software now fully supports ROS 2
New support allows full integration of vision-based 3D mapping in ROS 2 designs.
Velodyne Lidar, MOV.AI team up on AMR navigation tools
MOV.ai and Velodyne deliver a complete navigation package for ROS-based AMR solutions.
Unity showcases ROS 2 support with new AMR demo
Unity is supporting ROS 2 due to “significant advancements and support of more hardware drivers, networking modules, communication architecture, and several robot algorithms.”
Interop Working Group at MassRobotics publishes interoperability standard for AMRs
MassRobotics AMR Interoperability Working Group, comprised of AMR vendors, engineers and AMR end-user companies, has published a consortium-built standard to guide robotic automation interoperability.
Start-ups powering the new era of industrial robotics
Robotics start-ups are releasing solutions designed to assist manufacturers address labor challenges, confront global competition and provide lasting business value. Examples include products and technologies that increase the ease and speed of robotics software development, as well as support sensor-driven autonomy and mobility.
Waymo dataset to crowdsource behavior prediction breakthroughs
New motion dataset offers object trajectories and corresponding 3D maps for over 100,000 segments, each 20 seconds long and mined for interesting interactions with cars, people, and more.
How robotization Is transforming BIM workflow
Building Information Modeling (BIM) has found great success in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industries, and robotics solutions are making AEC inroads. The two technologies can be synergistic, and when used together can deliver additional value to AECs.
Amazon SageMaker RL tools manage robotics workflows
Amazon launched SageMaker Reinforcement Learning (RL) Kubeflow Components, an open-source toolkit designed to help manage robotics workflows. SageMaker RL is designed to make it faster to develop machine learning capabilities for everything from perception to controls and optimization. Amazon SageMaker is a service built on Amazon’s two decades of experience developing real-world machine learning applications.…
Unity demos how synthetic data can help robots learn
Training data is collected in Unity and used to train a deep neural network that predicts the pose of a cube. This model is then deployed in a simulated robot pick-and-place task.
New directions for an old robotics toolbox
For tens of thousands of students globally, over the last two decades, a part of their education involved an open-source software toolkit known as the Robotics Toolbox for MATLAB. This started as a modest collection of tools to help me in my PhD research in the early 1990s. It leveraged MATLAB, at that time a…