ROS / Open Source Solutions

In September 2020, Clearpath Robotics released a ROS package for Boston Dynamics’ Spot quadruped. The idea was to allow robotics researchers to leverage ROS capabilities out-of-the-box, as well as open-source libraries, tools and the greater ROS community to accelerate their robotics development. Spot comes with a dedicated computer, power and communication interfaces and a flexible…

A new ROS driver for ABB robots was introduced at the recent ROS-Industrial Conference. The driver, which is now available on GitHub, is designed to ease interaction between ABB robot controllers and ROS-based systems by providing ready-to-run ROS nodes. Here is a look at the included (principal) packages are brief descriptions for each: abb_rws_state_publisher: Provides…

In his RoboBusiness Direct session, Matthew Robinson, ROS-Americas program manager at the Southwest Research Institute, will discuss how the Robot Operating System can aid safe advanced automation. In addition, a DreamVu robotics expert will break out how omnidirectional 3D vision can benefit disinfection robots.

Real-Time Innovations said that robotics developers can now use RTI Connext DDS scalability and productivity tools within the ROS 2 ecosystem.

The Robotics Handbook focuses on the hottest global robotics sectors and analyses key trends enabling the development of robotics systems.

While many of the ROS 1 to ROS 2 ports basically amount to a find-and-replace of the various ROS interfaces and CMake directives, navigation got a fairly extensive re-architecture.

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ACEINNA has released its OpenIMU ROS driver, which it said will make it easier for robotics developers to build precise navigation systems.

This month’s print and downloadable issue of The Robot Report focuses on the Robot Operating System. Learn about the history of ROS, how ROS 2 can help commercial developers, and more.

A collaboration between Hexagon units NovAtel and AutonomouStuff is intended to reduce time to market for the development of autonomous agricultural vehicles.

Clearpath Robotics has extended its support for the ROS operating system and Boston Dynamics’ Spot quadruped robot to help researchers.

From agriculture and disinfection to retail and supply chain, robots are being rushed into development and deployment. Freedom Robotics says its cloud-based Pilot and Resource Monitor tools can help.

I’ve been using ROS 2 quite a bit over the past several months. As I’ve previously mentioned, it would appear there aren’t too many real robots running ROS 2 yet. We have a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem where the tools are not yet fully ready for real robots, but until people start using ROS…

RTI said its Connext Drive will provide performance and reliable communications as part of the Apollo Enterprise Platform, Baidu’s ecosystem for autonomous vehicle development.

Ricardo Tellez, CEO and co-founder of The Construct, shares tips for teaching robotics to students who are currently learning remotely due to COVID-19.

MIT researchers have developed a representation of spatial perception for robots that is modeled after the way humans perceive and navigate the world.

InOrbit has raised seed funding as it expands its robotics operations offerings for companies looking to scale their robot fleets.

RIOS has raised $5 million as it emerges from stealth and offers its DX-1 multipurpose robot for complex component assembly and other tasks.

ROScube-I includes I/O connectivity features and uses the new Foxy Fitzroy build ROS 2 to enable robotics developers to quickly build, scale, and deploy AI robots such as AMRs at the edge, says ADLINK.

ROS on Windows 10 adds extra layers of security to Clearpath mobile robots and allows them to take full advantage of cloud computing.

MoveIt, the Motion Planning Framework for ROS, has been successfully used in numerous industrial and research applications where complex collision-free robot motions are needed to complete manipulation tasks. In recent months, a great deal of effort has gone into migrating MoveIt into ROS2. As a result, the new MoveIt2 framework already provides access to many…

Synthiam, which develops software to ease robot programming, has released Exosphere. It enables humans to help complete tasks and build machine learning data sets.