ROS / Open Source Solutions

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.

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…