For more than two decades, people in the robotics industry had been trying to come up with a set of common tools that others could use on any robot they were designing or building. Tools that could ...

SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a flexible and collaborative open-source framework for building operating systems for robotics. As its adoption continues to grow, ROS ...

On a recent trip to the Bay Area, I took a few hours to pay a visit to Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (BAIR). Professor Ken Goldberg walked me around the lab and introduced me to a ...

The Robot Operating System (ROS) has a deeper foothold in the robotics industry than you might think. Since it was first developed in 2007, the open-source framework for developing robotics software ...

Sony is investing in Acutronic Robotics‘ Series A round, via its Sony Innovation Fund. Sony will also adopt Acutronic’s Hardware Robot Operating System (H-ROS), for use in its own robotics division, ...

When most people think about robotics, they think about large metal appendages coming together with swarms of wires to create a lanky, humanoid frame. What people don’t always realize is that making a ...

Northwestern Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) student Maurice Rahme talks about what he learned teaching a Baxter robot to play checkers. Embedded Systems in Robotics is one of three required ...

Ever heard about the Robot Operating System? It’s a BSD-licensed open-source system for controlling robots, from a variety of hardware. Over the years we’ve shared quite a few projects that run ROS, ...

I start each day checking out the new and updated projects over on Hackaday.io. Each day one can find all manner of projects – from satellites to machine vision to rockets. One type of project which ...

Microsoft is working on an "="" release="" of="" the="" robot="" operating="" system="" (ros)="" for="" windows"="">. Microsoft's goal with this move is to "bring the ...

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