This episode of The Robot Report Podcast features an interview with APEX.AI co-founder Dejan Pangercic on software development for autonomous vehicles.

Real-time Ubuntu provides a deterministic response to an external event, minimizing the response time guarantee within a specified deadline.

The total number of ROS packages downloaded increased 7.45%. ROS 2 accounted for 39.82% of all ROS downloads in 2022.

The SouthWest Research Institute shows how older robots can deliver value when you systematically design the approach and work within the constraints of your hardware.

New features include cloud accessibility, support for ROS 2 Humble and Windows, improved motion generation extension for robot arms and the ability to add human characters to simulation environments.

Running a successful robotics company is never easy. Unfortunately, these companies found out it’s even harder during a pandemic and supply chain crisis.

The benefit of using an open-source framework is that it includes a large contributing community, which is continuously developing and improving.

The Indy Autonomous Challenge returns to Las Vegas at CES 2023 with more powerful engines and improved sensors and computing infrastructure onboard.

Brian Gerkey said “greater institutional support from Intrinsic and the resources from this transaction allow our team to focus on what we do best and accelerate development of ROS, Gazebo, and Open-RMF in a sustainable way.”

Optimax approached PickNik Robotics for help improving the smoothness and latency of their robots using by using ROS 2.

Robotics Engineering Week’s sessions are focused on critical topics for robotics and automation professionals.

NVIDIA released the latest update to its Isaac Robot Operating System (ROS) software, Developer Preview (DP) 2.

Clearpath Robotics’ new OutdoorNav technology provides GPS-based navigation for Clearpath’s outdoor mobile robots and third-party vehicles.

NCS Robotics is working with Open Robotics to extend the Open-RMF capabilities to support security robot use cases.

NVIDIA released Jetson Orin Nano system-on-modules, updated its Nova Orin reference platform for autonomous mobile robots and announced cloud-based availability for its Isaac Sim technology.

Clearpath Robotics said it’s now easier to install, use, and diagnose issues with ROS on its mobile robots.

The new RADAR sensor is designed for the navigation requirements of outdoor AMRs and autonomous vehicles.

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

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.