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 from the package that I’ve helped […]
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Sarcos’ Ben Wolff, Uber ATG low on fuel, ROS on Spot
Welcome to Episode 17 of The Robot Report Podcast, which brings conversations with robotics innovators straight to you. Join us every week for discussions with leading roboticists, innovative robotics companies, and other key members of […]
Aceinna’s IMU ROS drivers for robots
Aceinna, the inertial based guidance and navigation system specialist, has produced OpenIMU ROS Driver for developers of robots and robotic applications. Available on the Sensors Page at ROS.org and GitHub this new driver enables robotic […]
5 features ROS 2 needs to add for robotics developers
Photo via The Construct 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 […]
Baseball & robotics startups during COVID-19; ROS on Windows 10
Welcome to Episode 6 of The Robot Report Podcast, which brings conversations with robotics innovators straight to you. Join us every Wednesday for discussions with leading roboticists, innovative robotics companies, and other key members of […]
Robot controller and SBC run Ubuntu and ROS 2 on Coffee Lake CPUs
Adlink unveiled a “ROScube-I” robot controller that runs Ubuntu and Adlink’s ROS 2 based Neuron SDK on 8th or 9th Gen Coffee Lake CPUs. There is also an 8th Gen based ROScube-I Starter Kit SBC.Adlink […]
ROScube-I from ADLINK and Intel provides ROS 2 control on the edge
ADLINK and Intel have launched the ROScube-I ROS 2 controller. Source: ADLINK ADLINK Technology Inc. today announced that it and and Intel Corp. have released the ROScube-I Series controller, which runs on ROS 2, the […]
Sigur Ros’ Jónsi Announces First New Solo Music in Over a Decade
By the end of April, Jónsi plans to release his first solo music in over ten years. His last unaccompanied album was 2010’s Go, though he also composed the soundtrack to We Bought a Zoo in 2011. The […]
MoveIt 2 enables realtime robot arm control with ROS 2
MoveIt 2 includes support for the Rviz motion-planning plugin. Source: PickNik PickNik Inc. last week announced a new version of the MoveIt open-source software for controlling robot arms. MoveIt 2 Beta works with ROS 2 […]
MoveIt, the Popular Open Source Platform For Robotic Arms, Releases ROS 2 Version
BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — PickNik Robotics is pleased to announce today the release of a much anticipated new version of MoveIt for use with the industry-advocated ROS 2. PickNik Robotics and its partners […]
Apex.OS 1.0 now available, brings ROS 2 development to self-driving cars
Apex.OS enables autonomous vehicle developers to build on a safe framework based on ROS 2. Source: Apex.AI Last week, Jan Becker, co-founder and CEO of Apex.AI, announced the availability of Apex.OS 1.0. The framework is […]