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HAPTIX program underway to create prosthetic hand system that moves and feels like a real hand
Open Source Robotics Foundation
09 Sep 2016
By: Brian Gerkey
Fundamentally, robotics is about helping people. Robots help us manufacture things, help us build things, and help make our lives easier and more convenient. As robotic systems in...
ROSCon 2015 recap and videos – part 2
Open Source Robotics Foundation
23 Mar 2016
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...
Robots in Depth: OSRF’s Tully Foote on open source, ROS, and standardization
Per Sjöborg and Robots in Depth
14 Oct 2015
Robots in Depth is a new video series featuring interviews with researchers, entrepreneurs, VC investors, and policy makers in robotics, hosted by Per Sjöborg. In this interview, Tully Foote -- ROS...
Gazebo gets better at flying and diving
Open Source Robotics Foundation
15 Jun 2015
As another result of the exciting DARPA Robotics Challenge, Gazebo has improved its capabilities in the aeronautics and hydrodynamics fields. We expect these changes to benefit the way UAVs and UUVs a...
DARPA’s Robotics Challenge: A pocket-sized guide to the finals
Adriana Hamacher
03 Jun 2015
DARPA's latest Challenge reaches its climax on 6 June 2015, when 25 finalists compete for $3.5m of prize money in what’s possibly the most anticipated robotic contest ever. Since its inception in 20...
DARPA’s legacy: Open source simulation for robotics development and testing
DARPA Robotics Challenge
27 May 2015
When the DARPA Robotics Challenge first began to coalesce from an idea to a plan, we knew that we wanted to create a lasting legacy not only for robot hardware capabilities, but also for robotics simu...
Robotics Fast Track now accepting applications
Open Source Robotics Foundation
19 May 2015
We’re excited to announce that OSRF and BIT Systems are seeking innovative and revolutionary robotics projects for the Robotics Fast Track (RFT) effort, sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Pr...
Steffi Paepcke on Robots, women and design: Opportunities abound
Open Source Robotics Foundation
29 Apr 2015
This piece was written by Steffi Paepcke as a precursor to the Silicon Valley Robotics panel titled “Women in Robotics: Challenge or Opportunity?”
Let me get the basic statistics out of t...
DARPA’s HAPTIX project hopes to provide prosthetic hands with sense of touch
Open Source Robotics Foundation
11 Feb 2015
The Gazebo team has been hard at work setting up a simulation environment for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)’s Hand Proprioception and Touch Interfaces (HAPTIX) program. The g...
Humanoid robot with open electronics
Open Source Robotics Foundation
17 Dec 2014
We’re pleased to announce the public release of information on a long-standing collaboration between OSRF and Sandia National Labs. The Intelligent Systems Control Department at Sandia is developing...
OpenStreetMap support in Gazebo
Open Source Robotics Foundation
22 Oct 2014
During her internship as part of the Gnome Outreach Program for Women, Tashwin Khurana developed a tool for downloading data from the OpenStreetMap database to produce a corresponding world file fo...
ROS meets precision agriculture at Blue River Technology
Open Source Robotics Foundation
05 Jun 2014
If you were to design the worst possible environment for software engineering, the cramped jump seat of a John Deere tractor would be a contender. The sound and vibration of the engine makes conversat...
CloudSim-Ed: A robotics MOOC prototype
Open Source Robotics Foundation
30 Apr 2014
CloudSim-Ed from OSRF.
During her Gnome Outreach Program for Women internship with OSRF, Ana Marian Pedro worked on CloudSim-Ed a prototype for a massive open online robotics course built with Goog...
ROS goes to space!
Robohub Editors
13 Mar 2014
As part of a resupply mission to the International Space Station, ROS will board a SpaceX Rocket on March 16 and, barring inclement weather, will launch into space. According to a blogpost by Brian Ge...
DARPA’s Virtual Robotics Challenge a practical step forward on the long road toward disaster-response capable humanoids
Hallie Siegel
24 Jul 2013
Based on a media rountable discussion with DRC Program Manager Gill Pratt and CEO of the Open Source Robotics Foundation Brian Gerkey.
The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear disaster was a wake-up call...
DARPA Virtual Robotics Challenge results
Andra Keay
27 Jun 2013
The first competition of the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) was a software simulation of humanoid rescue work. The 6 best teams were to be allocated ATLAS robots for the next stage of the challenge, b...
TurtleBot 2 at ROSCon
John Payne
21 May 2012
http://youtu.be/P27Vj7E2FoU
This video introduces TurtleBot 2, which was shown this past weekend at ROSCon 2012. TurtleBot 2, built around an iClebo Kobuki from Korean firm Yujin Robot, improves upon...
Open source robotics foundation announced
John Payne
17 May 2012
Announced via the Willow Garage website, the Open Source Robotics Foundation, Inc. (OSRF) is an independent non-profit organization founded by members of the global robotics community. Its mission is ...
