Robotics

Whether you're starting in the lab or already in production,
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Gabriel Aguiar Noury
11 July 2022

Installing Foxglove Studio is now easier than ever

Article Robotics

Today, Foxglove announced the release of the Foxglove Studio snap. Foxglove Studio helps you experience the world as a robot does, providing a rich set of features to visualise data. By diversifying its distribution with a snap, Foxglove Studio is now available to millions of Linux users that can install this...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
11 July 2022

gbeuzeboc
8 July 2022

Install Gazebo for ROS 2 in under a minute

Article Robotics

Recently, we announced the beta release of the Gazebo snap to help you install Gazebo for ROS 2. The gazebo snap is easy to install on dozens of Linux distributions and comes bundled with all the dependencies and the ROS 2 integration. It currently supports Gazebo Citadel and thus ROS 2 Foxy. For the sake

gbeuzeboc
8 July 2022

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
4 July 2022

The State of Robotics – May & June 2022

Article Robotics

In May, robotics felt the waves of the Hawksbill and Jellyfish. Last month brought us the first LTS for ROS 2, Humble Hawksbill. As part of the ROS community, we welcome this new release and congratulate everyone who made it possible. In this round-up, we will talk about ROS, drones, football and robots that eat

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
4 July 2022

Edoardo Barbieri
8 June 2022

An intro to real-time Linux with Ubuntu

Article Internet of Things

A real-time system responds to events within a specified deadline. If the timing constraints of the system are unmet, failure has occurred. In the kernel context, real-time denotes a deterministic response to an external event, aiming to minimize the response time guarantee. Real-time Beta now available in Ubuntu 22.04...

Edoardo Barbieri
8 June 2022

Florencia Cabral Berenfus
25 May 2022

ROS 2 Humble security, a tour of the new and improved features

Article Robotics

We’re excited about the recent release of ROS 2 Humble Hawksbill, a Long Term Support (LTS) distro, supported for the next five years. ROS 2 releases come out on every even-numbered year together with the LTS release of Ubuntu, this time with Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish).  Earlier this week, we shared a step-by-step guide to

Florencia Cabral Berenfus
25 May 2022

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
23 May 2022

Install ROS 2 Humble in Ubuntu 20.04 or 18.04 using LXD containers

Article Robotics

We welcome the new release of ROS 2 Humble which targets the recently released Ubuntu 22.04. If you want to install it now, please visit the ROS 2 Humble documentation. But if you want to install ROS 2 Humble and test compatibility, keeping your current Ubuntu (20.04, 18.04,…) environment stable until you know you are

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
23 May 2022

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
20 May 2022

How to raise funding for your robotics venture | Chapter 2 – Akara

Article Robotics

Robotics ventures are different. They face different technical challenges in design, testing and deployment. This has an implication for everything, including funding. It’s not the same to raise funding for the next mobile app or IoT device, as for the next assistive robot. Investors and developers alike know about the...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
20 May 2022

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
17 May 2022

Kria KR260 – a scalable robotics platform powered with Ubuntu

Article Internet of Things

Today, robotics developers have something to look forward to with the release of AMD Kria™ KR260 Robotics Starter Kit. Robotics is a challenging endeavour. By reducing the barriers to entry on embedding design, AMD aims to accelerate robotics innovations in every industry. The latest addition to the Kria portfolio of...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
17 May 2022

julie-chevrier
6 May 2022

Let’s meet at Hannover Messe 2022

Article Ubuntu

Hannover Messe, one of the world’s largest trade fairs, dedicated to the industrial sectors (drive engineering, automation, robotics, R&D and industrial IT), will be held in Hannover, Germany from May 30th to June 2nd 2022. Come join us at Hall 5, Booth B51/1, where we will discuss all things IoT and embedded and introduce you

julie-chevrier
6 May 2022

Edoardo Barbieri
27 April 2022

Real-time Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Beta – Now Available

Article Internet of Things

On 21 April 2022, Canonical announced Real-time Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, available in beta.  Based on upstream v5.15, the 22.04 LTS kernel integrates the out-of-tree PREEMPT_RT patch for x86_64 and AArch64 architectures. Once in GA, the new real-time kernel will power the next generation of robotics, IoT, and telco innovations...

Edoardo Barbieri
27 April 2022

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
6 April 2022

The State of Robotics – February & March 2022

Article Robotics

When you use open source software, you establish a connection with its maintainers, contributors, and users. You join a community, leveraging code and knowledge. You share bugs, solutions, recommendations, and challenges. Open source accelerates innovation while uniting us all under the same cause. Today, millions of...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
6 April 2022

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
12 February 2022

The State of Robotics – January 2022

Article Robotics

What a way of starting the year! Setting milestones, helping those in need, and daring to dream. January 2022 starts with one of the biggest technological conferences — CES. So, in this piece, you will find a breakdown of three robots in our usual style. But there’s more… we also bring a story to inspire

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
12 February 2022

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
13 January 2022

The State of Robotics – December 2021

Article Robotics

I will be honest, I thought that December was going to be a slow month for the robotics news. With all the holidays, I was not expecting a month with exciting announcements or events. And when I was ready to put videos of robots dancing to Christmas carols, with Christmas hats and Christmas lights, I

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
13 January 2022

Florencia Cabral Berenfus
15 December 2021

Security vulnerabilities on the Data Distribution Service (DDS)

Article Robotics

Learn more about DDS, and how to stay protected while using it If you are currently running the Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2), this piece is especially relevant to the security of your robots. A few weeks ago, a group of security researchers reported 13 security vulnerabilities affecting some of the most used...

Florencia Cabral Berenfus
15 December 2021

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