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Steve Macenski: Open Source Robot Navigation | Sense Think Act Podcast #13

Audrow Nash and Sense Think Act Podcast 09 Feb 2022

In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks to Steve Macenski, who is the Open Source Robotics Engineering Lead at Samsung Research America. Steve leads the Nav2 project, which is an open source robot navigat...

The need for robotics standards

Ricardo Téllez 29 Aug 2017

Last week I was talking to one lead engineer of a Singapore company which is building a benchmarking system for robot solutions. Having seen my presentation at ROSCON2016 about robot benchma...

Using MATLAB for hardware-in-the-loop prototyping #1 : Message passing systems

Florian Enner 28 Jun 2017

MATLAB© is a programming language and environment designed for scientific computing. It is one of the best languages for developing robot control algorithms and is widely used in the research communi...

Teaching ROS quickly to students

Ricardo Téllez 09 Jun 2017

Lecturer Steffen Pfiffner of University of Weingarten in Germany is teaching ROS to 26 students at the same time at a very fast pace. His students, all of them within the Master on Computer Science of...

Smart Grasping System available on ROS Development Studio

Ruben Alves 10 May 2017

Would you like to make a robot to grasp something, but you think that is impossible to you just because you can’t buy a robot arm? I’m here to tell that you can definitely achieve this without buy...

Machine Learning with OpenAI Gym on ROS Development Studio

Ricardo Téllez 08 May 2017

Imagine how easy it would be to learn skating, if only it doesn’t hurt everytime you fall. Unfortunately, we, humans, don’t have that option. Robots, however, can now “learn” their skills o...

ROS robotics projects

Lentin Joseph 04 Apr 2017

A new book by Lentin Joseph, ROS Robotics Programming, outlines more than 14 robotics projects using ROS that can be engaged with without requiring a lot of hardware. The book starts with an introdu...

Developing ROS programs for the Sphero robot

Ricardo Téllez 13 Mar 2017

You probably know the Sphero robot. It is a small robot with the shape of a ball. In case that you have one, you must know that it is possible to control it using ROS, by installing in your computer t...

Programming for robotics: Introduction to ROS

Péter Fankhauser 07 Mar 2017

This handy video-tutorial course gives an introduction to the Robot Operating System (ROS), including many of the available tools that are commonly used in robotics. With the help of different example...

Clearpath Robotics launches “Warthog UGV”, the amphibious robot

Clearpath Robotics 03 Nov 2016

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...

ROSCon 2015 recap and videos – Part 5

Open Source Robotics Foundation 09 Aug 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...

ROSCon 2015 recap and videos – part 1

Open Source Robotics Foundation 13 Feb 2016

Mastering ROS for robotics programming

Lentin Joseph 19 Jan 2016

A new book by Lentin Joseph, Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming, discusses advanced concepts in robotics and how to implement them using ROS. Readers will learn how to build models of complex ...

Create a ROS sensor plugin for Gazebo

Ricardo Téllez 07 Jan 2016

There are magnificent tutorials about how to create plugins for Gazebo in the GazeboSim webpage. There are even some tutorials about how to create plugins for Gazebo + ROS, which show that there are...

$150M in VC funding (2015) for businesses that use ROS

Brian Gerkey and Open Source Robotics Foundation 08 Dec 2015

Eight years ago, Morgan Quigley, Eric Berger and Andrew Ng published a paper that was not about ROS. It was about STAIR, the STanford Artificial Intelligence Robot, which used a library called Switchy...

Liatris: looking to change how robots see the world

Mark Silliman 20 Oct 2015

Fully autonomous robotics could be developed today if objects could tell a robot what they are, their purpose and how to utilize them. Liatris is a new open source project built with ROS. Its objectiv...

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...

Fifty planes in the air running ROS & Gazebo

Open Source Robotics Foundation 23 Sep 2015

The Advanced Robotic Systems Engineering Lab at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA recently flew fifty small autonomous planes together using ROS....

Erle-Spider, the Ubuntu drone with legs

Víctor Mayoral Vilches 15 Sep 2015

Erle-Spider is a drone with legs powered by Canonical’s new distribution for robots and IoT devices: Snappy Ubuntu Core. This computer with legs uses the Robot Operating System (ROS), and has been ...

Coming of age: Clearpath’s Ryan Gariepy on growing a robotics startup

Hallie Siegel 01 Sep 2015

Launched in 2009 by a group of Waterloo engineering students, Clearpath's unmistakeable bright yellow and black robots have become synonymous with unmanned vehicle research in university research ...

Learning robotics using Python

Lentin Joseph 09 Jun 2015

[clear] A new book, Learning Robotics using Python, takes a different approach to teaching the Robotics Operating System (ROS). Written by Lentin Joseph, founder and CEO of Indian robotics start...

ROS101: Creating your own RQT Dashboard

Clearpath Robotics 18 Mar 2015

By Martin Cote After working in the terminal, gazebo and RViz, it’s time for a change of pace. For this ROS101 tutorial we’ll be detailing the basics of creating your own rqt dashboard! A dash...

New open source Turtlebot tutorial aims to bring robotic development to the masses

Mark Silliman 05 Mar 2015

Critical mass is required to start any revolution and robotics will be no different. The newly published open-source project learn.turtlebot.com is designed to introduce high school students and the w...

ROS, Arduino, and a Husky simulation

Clearpath Robotics 23 Jan 2015

By Martin Cote The Arduino family of micro controllers has quickly become a go-to board for hobbyists due to its ease of use. Often times roboticists must create communication protocols to allow th...

Do more with Udev

Clearpath Robotics 21 Jan 2015

By Paul Bovbel Udev is a device manager for Linux that dynamically creates and removes nodes for hardware devices. In short, it helps your computer find your robot easily. By default, hardware de...

ROS101: Creating a subscriber using GitHub

Clearpath Robotics 12 Dec 2014

By Martin Cote We previously learned how to write a publisher node to move Husky randomly. BUT: what good is publishing all these messages if no one is there to read it? In this tutorial we’ll ...

ROSCon 2014 videos and slides available

Open Source Robotics Foundation 20 Oct 2014

We’re happy to announce that videos and speakers’ slides from ROSCon 2014 have been posted....

ROS 101: Creating a publisher node

Clearpath Robotics 23 Sep 2014

By Martin Cote In our previous post, we graduated from driving a Husky to taking on a Grizzly! Now it’s time to get down and dirty with what ROS is really made of: nodes! We will first be crea...

ROS 101: Drive a Grizzly!

Clearpath Robotics 03 Jul 2014

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?...

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...

Meet your (ROS-based) cleaning team from Avidbots

Open Source Robotics Foundation 26 May 2014

The folks at Avidbots — who won an honourable mention in the Robot Launch 2014 competition — are developing ROS-based commercial cleaning robots....

ROS 101: Drive a Husky!

Clearpath Robotics 21 Mar 2014

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...

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...

ROS 101: A practical example

Clearpath Robotics 05 Feb 2014

In the previous ROS 101 post, we provided a quick introduction to ROS to answer questions like What is ROS? and How do I get started? Now that you understand the basics, here’s how they can app...

ROS 101: Intro to the Robot Operating System

Clearpath Robotics 29 Jan 2014

Clearpath Robotics brings us a new tutorial series on ROS! Since we practically live in the Robot Operating System (ROS), we thought it was time to share some tips on how to get started with ROS. W...

Is open source a good business model for robotics?

RBI Editors 09 Oct 2013

Open source vs. proprietary software is an age old question. Since the advent of robotics, we also have the question of open source hardware. In academia, where robotics researchers look to open so...

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