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.

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.