ROS

With this initiative, the Open Source Robotics Foundation aims to strengthen governance of software projects and support the ROS community.

Tormach created a ROS-based industrial robotic manipulator and control system that avoids “black box” issues that plague modern robotics applications.

The new ROS 2 release of Iron Irwini triggers an end to long-term support for ROS 2 release Foxy Fitzroy.

Intrinsic announces a new robot development solution that combines process development with simulation, to make robot programming simpler.

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

Intralink’s offices in Shanghai and Seoul will allow SLAMcore to pursue new business opportunities in the countries. 

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

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

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

The partnership enables MOV.AI customers to quickly integrate Ouster LiDAR units into the AMR platform.

In all but a few metrics the ROS community is growing and for many metrics the numbers almost doubled year over year.

New support allows full integration of vision-based 3D mapping in ROS 2 designs.

Unity is supporting ROS 2 due to “significant advancements and support of more hardware drivers, networking modules, communication architecture, and several robot algorithms.”

Cartesian control of UR’s cobots is now available via ROS. Beta testing of this new code is just beginning.

The Robot Operating System (ROS) has played a fundamental role in the development of robots as solutions to real-world challenges in many different sectors. From warehouses and logistics, to agriculture and healthcare, ROS-based designs are delivering real value. Since its birth at Willow Garage in 2007, this flexible framework has helped thousands of robotics developers.…

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

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.

The Kompaï-3 mobile robot is designed to be modular and can assist healthcare personnel and the aging with mobility, social engagement, and more, said KOMPAÏ Robotics.

MoveIt 2 is a version of the popular open-source platform for developing robot arm controls that has been released under ROS 2.

   BEDFORD, Mass. – Energid and Motiv announced today a software development kit that would allow users of Motiv’s RoboMantis modular robotic system to more easily program the robot. The companies said Energid’s Actin SDK is a real-time adaptive robotic control tool kit that can help RoboMantis extend its capabilities within sophisticated applications in…

Microsoft Windows 10 has officially supported ROS since May 2019. This is, of course, an opportunity for Microsoft to expose its Azure platform to the ROS community. Microsoft is expanding its ROS/ROS2 support with new robotics development tools announced at ROSCon in Macau. The new tools include a Visual Studio Code extension for ROS, Azure…

There is now an official Robot Operating System (ROS) driver that is compatible with Universal Robots collaborative robots. Third-party developers have created ROS drivers for UR, but the world’s leading cobot company has never before supported or developed any of these drivers. The ROS driver works with all UR cobots that come with a CB3 or…