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Gabriel Aguiar Noury
16 October 2021

The State of Robotics – September 2021

Article Robotics

September news is charged with analysis and comment of what has been a month with important announcements for open source robotics. It has been a month to understand that, in a nascent and fragmented market, the actors have a deeper impact upon all the stakeholders. A flop won’t be just a flop, it could be

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
16 October 2021

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
14 October 2021

Driving innovation in autonomous mobile robots – University of Hawaii hits Indy 500

Article Robotics

On October 23, the historic Indy 500 will experience a new type of race. Not just a race for all the fans and lovers of racecars, but a race that is now changing the future of driving. Autonomous mobile robots will be racing to see not only who is the fastest, but also the most

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
14 October 2021

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
5 October 2021

ROS CVE alert; ensuring security for robotics

Article Robotics

Security for robotics is a priority for ROS developers and crucial for the success of robotics. Open Robotics has registered a CVE that affects ROS Kinetic, Melodic and Noetic. CVE stands for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, and it’s an international system that provides a method for publicly sharing information on...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
5 October 2021

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
15 September 2021

The State of Robotics – August 2021

Article Robotics

Robotics is everywhere. Researchers and companies are all working on groundbreaking developments, either improving robotics to be state of the art or pursuing innovative applications. That is the main aim of this monthly blog; to show you what we are capable of doing today and to inspire you to think about the bigger...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
15 September 2021

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
22 August 2021

The State of Robotics – July 2021

Article Robotics

From autonomous mobile robots to robot butlers. It is impressive to see how much progress has been made in the last decade. Thanks to our open source robotics community we keep learning, and this newsletter is filled with events, R&D updates, new products and tutorials for you. Thanks July! Open source robotics events – ROS

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
22 August 2021

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
13 August 2021

Open Source Robotics Challenges – Planning for Security

Article Robotics

Open Source Robotics Challenges is a series of blogs that will share guidelines and advice for open source companies to overcome market barriers. We will touch on topics regularly raised by companies in our open source community such as security awareness, prototyping strategies, safety architecture, adoption and more....

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
13 August 2021

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
23 July 2021

The State of Robotics – June 2021

Article Robotics

June was packed with interesting news. So this monthly blog won’t disappoint our readers. If you haven’t seen it already, we are running a content survey. It will take you 7 minutes to complete and it will help us create the content that you want to read. So if you haven’t done it yet, here

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
23 July 2021

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
3 June 2021

ROS Kinetic migration and its challenges – A community perspective.

Article Robotics

ROS Kinetic has come to EOL. We have discussed the impact of EOL in the past, but with its final sync out on May 12th, ROS Kinetic is no longer supported. Together with Ubuntu Xenial, both distributions will no longer receive security updates or bug fixes. ROS second LTS release became the largest rosdistro with

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
3 June 2021

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
26 April 2021

ROS ESM: 15 things you need to know

Article Robotics

With the End of Life of ROS Noetic, we have received many questions from people in the robotics community who are interested in learning about Robot Operating System Extended Security Maintenance (ROS ESM). This blog aims to answer those questions. For more information on this topic, please have a look at our webpage If after

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
26 April 2021

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
9 April 2021

The State of Robotics – March 2021

Article Robotics

It’s never too late to learn. As any reinforcement learning agent, we get rewarded by the new knowledge that we acquire. Likewise, we learn by doing, by rolling up our sleeves and getting to work. (Do you want a hands-on book on Reinforcement Learning? Here is my personal favourite) March has shown us great examples

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
9 April 2021

Canonical
6 April 2021

Hardened ROS with 10 year security from Open Robotics and Canonical

Article Canonical announcements

Canonical ROS ESM customers now can access a long-term supported ROS and Ubuntu environment by the Ubuntu and ROS experts. Learn more about ROS ESM. 6 April 2021: Canonical and Open Robotics announced today a partnership for Robot Operating System (ROS) Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) and enterprise support, as part...

Canonical
6 April 2021

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
6 April 2021

What is ROS Extended Security Maintenance?

Article Robotics

Developing robots is not like building apps or IoT devices. Robots balance complex features such as scene awareness, social intelligence, physical intelligence, communication, dialogue, learning from interaction, memory, long-term autonomy, safe failure… the list goes on and on. As a result, robotics startups can take...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
6 April 2021

Jeremie Deray
25 March 2021

Getting started with micro-ROS on the Raspberry Pi Pico

Article Robotics

In this post we will see how the Raspberry Pi Pico can natively speak to a ROS 2 graph using micro-ROS. We will set up a project in VSCode, compile and upload it to the microcontroller. We thus assume that you are somewhat familiar with ROS 2 development and VSCode. What is this all about?

Jeremie Deray
25 March 2021

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
18 March 2021

The State of Robotics – February 2021

Article Robotics

And that was February! A month where a rover showed what perseverance means and a small drone what ingenuity looks like. February will be remembered as the month where two robots landed on Mars, telling us all to “dare mighty things”. Perseverance and Ingenuity Do you want to know what Mars sounds like? Well, here

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
18 March 2021

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