Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is moving out of standard support in May 2025.
Powering robotics
in every industry
Develop, deploy and maintain your fleet of robots with Ubuntu.
Ubuntu is all your robot needs
We provide you with the essential infrastructure to easily, securely, and reliably deploy your robots.
Our open source tools help you:
- Keep your robots up-to-date efficiently and cost-effectively with over-the-air and low bandwidth updates that include failure rollback.
- Comply with cybersecurity requirements using built-in security tools and security maintenance.
- Reduce engineer intervention and operational costs for software maintenance.
- Accelerate software development; gain unparalleled flexibility in development, device driver and cloud services.
- Improve the user experience in robotics with increased stability, security, and reduced downtime.
Building the future with
Robotics software updates
Unlock a reliable infrastructure for compressed, transactional, signed, and secure updates.
With Ubuntu Core and the Snap store, full containerization means:
- Transactional, over-the-air updates
- Air-gapped infrastructure
- Data snapshot backup and restore
- Signed software integrity
- Compressed delta updates
Bringing Ubuntu’s worldwide infrastructure to your robot
Deploying a robotics solution?
For more than a decade, Ubuntu has provided the best development environment for robotics developers. Your team can easily build and securely deploy their devices with Ubuntu Core, an operating system optimised for IoT and edge devices, and Snaps, fully-confined embedded containers. For low-tech device management, the IoT Snap Store enables developers to unlock a reliable and widely-used update infrastructure that's ideal for robotics applications.
Ubuntu is an open-source operating system. For more than a decade, Ubuntu has supported key robotics open-source projects, such as ROS, PX4, Autoware, Open-CV, PCL, and more. Every aspect of the development process benefits from Ubuntu's responsiveness, ease of use, regular software updates, lightweight nature, and a high degree of security.
Snapcraft is the command-line tool for packaging your software as a Snap. Snaps are containerised software packages designed for embedded applications, with increased performance compared to other technologies. Snaps give you all the interfaces you need to bundle your dependencies in one package, while providing secure interfaces to access the host disc and privileged resources.
Canonical's IoT App Store enables developers to host and manage software updates for their devices. It provides a trusted update infrastructure, including reliable over-the-air updates, secure authentication, CI/CD integration, and more. Companies can create either a public or private marketplace, where applications can be managed by developers and contributors.
Ubuntu Core is an optimised version of Ubuntu for edge devices. It brings a reliable software management infrastructure, including independent, transactional, and delta updates for the OS, kernel, and applications. It provides advanced security features, such as secure boot and strict confinement. Ubuntu Core uses the same kernel, libraries, and system software as classic Ubuntu, resulting in a smooth transition to production.
Robotics security
Comply with cybersecurity requirements with in-built security for your device.
With Ubuntu Core, in-built security means:
- Secure boot
- Full disk encryption
- Signed software packages
- Device recovery
- 10-year security update commitment
Enterprise services for robotics companies
Deploy robust platforms with our enterprise services for robotics companies and provide a production-grade solution to your customer.
Our services allow robotics companies to reduce overhead costs and operational expenses for deployment, maintenance, security and support. Our services for robotics companies include:
Device Enablement and Maintenance
Your own production-grade image in our testing infrastructure
Embedded applications depend on the kernel, drivers, libraries, file systems, and runtime environment. How can you guarantee that your robot will continue working after critical security upgrades to the base kernel and the OS?
Our Enablement services allow you to get a production-grade Ubuntu image for your robot, while our Maintenance services guarantee that any security update won't break your device.
No regressions, no surprises.
ROS Expanded Security Maintenance
Hardened ROS with 10-year security
ROS ESM is a service by Canonical that provides security maintenance for ROS Long Term Support (LTS) releases and the underlying Ubuntu distributions, starting with ROS Kinetic on Ubuntu 16.04.
This includes core ROS libraries, the underlying Ubuntu system and more than 23,000 packages from the Ubuntu Universe repository.
No more neglecting security updates.
Learn about our solutions
Case Study and Whitepaper
Video and Webinar
Ready for all boards
With partners across the industry, we are creating a new kind of embedded OS for hardware platforms. Work with certified hardware to minimize your startup costs and time to market.
Download the optimized OS for your robotics boards
Or check the full list of Ubuntu certified hardware and find the right one for your application.
Ready for the next steps?
Get in touch and let's roll out your robots ›
