ROS / Open Source Solutions

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.

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

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.

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

Now with ROS 2 and Python support, Create 3 is iRobot’s smartest developer platform to date.

Clearpath Robotics’ Husky UGV is an all-terrain mobile robot that weighs in at 110 lbs, and has a payload capacity of 165 lbs.

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.

All we had was a dream, some open-source code, and some very smart friends, a whole lot of them.

To successfully introduce robots to the public at scale, we need to acknowledge robotics as a more open-ended endeavor that requires more diverse tooling than traditional software development.

RE2 Robotics will develop its autonomous robotic systems for robotic arms with PickNik Robotics’ Movelt Studio software.

Space ROS is a version of ROS 2 meant to meet verification and validation requirements aerospace software must meet before being used in a mission.

RobOps best practices now include advanced capabilities that enable automation of robot management.

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.

Apex.OS can be used in a variety of applications, including autonomous cars, semi-trucks and construction equipment.

A gathering of the global community of robotics and operations experts will advance the best practices for scaling the use of autonomous robots across industries.

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.