Robotics

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
17 May 2021

The State of Robotics – April 2021

Article Robotics

Together we have reached the end. Two partners, two allies, two distributions that supported millions of innovators have reached their end-of-life (EOL). April will be remembered as the month where ROS Kinetic and Ubuntu Xenial reached EOL. ROS Kinetic is one of the most used, widely deployed and extensively contributed...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
17 May 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

Leia Ruffini
30 March 2021

Ubuntu in the wild – 30th of March 2021

Article Cloud and server

The Ubuntu in the wild blog post ropes in the latest highlights about Ubuntu and Canonical around the world on a bi-weekly basis.

Leia Ruffini
30 March 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

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
19 February 2021

The State of Robotics – January 2021

Article Robotics

A new start? 2020 came and went, and in the process, it left a mark in history and our lives that won’t be erased. Together, as a community, we all struggled, we all faced new challenges, we all united and did our best to help each other. We are grateful for the effort of our

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
19 February 2021

Kyle Fazzari
9 December 2020

The State of Robotics – November 2020

Article Robotics

Goodbye Thanksgiving (well, for some of us), hello Christmas! The holiday season really is the best, and it always brings interesting robotics news, which we will now distill into a quick dose of delightful and easily-digestible tidbits. As always, if you’d like to see your work showcased here, please send an email to...

Kyle Fazzari
9 December 2020

sidfaber
23 November 2020

Exploring ROS 2 Kubernetes configurations

Article Cloud and server

Kubernetes and robotics make a great match. However, as we have seen, robots running ROS 2 can be tricky to set up on Kubernetes. This blog series has explored running ROS 2 on Kubernetes, set up a simple talker and listener, and distributed that demo across three machines. The configurations presented may not quite fit

sidfaber
23 November 2020

sidfaber
9 November 2020

ROS 2 on Kubernetes: a simple talker and listener setup

Article Cloud and server

Kubernetes and ROS make a great match, but ROS2 can be tricky to set up. In this post we demonstrate a scalable system with MicroK8s on Ubuntu.

sidfaber
9 November 2020

sidfaber
6 November 2020

The State of Robotics – October 2020

Article Robotics

This post marks the one year anniversary of the Ubuntu Robotics newsletter: the place we showcase our work and discussing cool robotics happenings.

sidfaber
6 November 2020

anastasiavalti
5 November 2020

Ubuntu at ROS World 2020: Learn how to do more for your robot

Article Robotics

Come and connect with the Ubuntu robotics team on November 12th to answer all of your questions. This is the first time ROSCon has ever been virtual and is the first time it’s ever been free to attend, so we’re looking forward to seeing tons of new faces! We have ROS experts and field engineers ready and waiting to talk.

anastasiavalti
5 November 2020

Whether you're starting in the lab or already in production, Canonical can help manage the complexity of the open source software underpinning your robot's brains and personality.

Whether you're starting in the lab or already in production,
Canonical can help manage the complexity of the open source software
underpinning your robot's brains and personality.