Clearpath Robotics

Customer story: Deployable, autonomous vibration control of bridges using Husky UGV

Sriram Narasimhan’s research team are shaking things up in the Civil Engineering Structures Lab at the University of Waterloo. The research, which is led by Ph.D Candidate Kevin Goorts, is developin...

05 January 2017, by Clearpath Robotics

Clearpath Robotics launches “Warthog UGV”, the amphibious robot

Clearpath Robotics, a leading provider of mobile robotic platforms for research and development, has partnered with ARGO XTR to release Warthog – a large, amphibious, all-terrain mobile robot desig...

03 November 2016, by Clearpath Robotics

ROSCon 2015 recap and videos – Part 5

ROSCon is an annual conference focused on ROS, the Robot Operating System. Every year, hundreds of ROS developers of all skill levels and backgrounds, from industry to academia, come together to teach...

09 August 2016, by Open Source Robotics Foundation

Interview: International Ground Vehicle Ground Competition (IGVC) winner on “Bigfoot 2” Husky UGV

By: Chris Bogdon The International Ground Vehicle Ground Competition (IGVC) is an annual event that brings together teams of college students from all over the globe to compete in an autonomous gro...

08 August 2016, by Clearpath Robotics

5 innovation challenges in materials transport

by: Meghan Hennessey Walk into any manufacturing facility today. Forklifts and AGVs may be in operation serving specific parts of the manufacturing floor, but you’ll also see hundreds of people a...

18 March 2016, by Clearpath Robotics

Interview: The team behind the apple harvesting robot

By: Chris Bogdon Amir Degani is an assistant professor at Technion Institute of Technology and Avi Kahnani is the CEO and Co-Founder of Israeli robotics start-up Fresh Fruits Robotics. Together, they...

08 March 2016, by Clearpath Robotics

Sensor-driven armband used to direct robots

ThalmicLabs' MYO gesture-based armband is making inroads driving robots, moving robot arms and on the arms of a Dutch trance music producer, DJ and radio personality....

21 March 2015, by Frank Tobe

Hansen Medical gets $35M; Clearpath Robotics $11.2M

Two robotics-related companies just got funding. Hansen Medical sold 53,846 shares to get $35M; and Clearpath Robotics got $11.2M for an unusual reason....

21 March 2015, by Frank Tobe

This military robotics company vows to never make a killer robot | Fast Company

Cars are already close to driving themselves down the highway. How far are we then from military weapons systems that decide on their own when and where to fire? "You want the scary answer?" asks C...

23 October 2014, by CIS Blog

10 best quotes from IROS 2014 Industry Forum

How do I get to MVP? How do I take my existing technology to a different market? How do I attract outside funding for my idea? Does IP matter? (The answer to the last question is yes, although researc...

18 September 2014, by Shima Rayej

Clearpath introduces Jackal, their new unmanned ground vehicle

http://youtu.be/Sw5lSGkaNAU We’ve been keeping a huge secret and now we’re ready to share it… Earlier this year, Army Research Labs (ARL) contracted us to design an affordable, portable researc...

15 September 2014, by Clearpath Robotics

ROS 101: Drive a Grizzly!

So you have had a taste of driving a virtual Husky in our previous tutorial, but now want to try something a little bigger? How about 2000 lbs bigger?...

03 July 2014, by Clearpath Robotics

Tweet to drive a robot!

Happy Birthday!! Clearpath is officially 5 years old and what better way to celebrate than let all of our fans drive a robot. No matter where you are in the world, you can experience what it’s like ...

13 June 2014, by Clearpath Robotics

ROS 101: Drive a Husky!

In the previous ROS 101 post, we showed how easy it is to get ROS going inside a virtual machine, publish topics and subscribe to them. If you haven’t had a chance to check the out all the previous...

21 March 2014, by Clearpath Robotics