Shadow Robot Company has joined the ranks of Willow Garage, iRobot, and many other robot developers which have some of their hardware running the Robot Operating System (ROS). According to the ROS ...

Open-source software is giving rise to emerging breeds of quasi-commercial, prosthetic, and industrial robots. Robot Operating System (ROS) software — a suite of software libraries that help ...

DRESDEN, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wandelbots unveiled the world’s first agnostic operating system specifically developed for industrial robotic automation. This marks a new era of automation, setting ...

UNISIG’s next-generation operating system improves the human-robot interface and slashes programming times. The new operating system, featured on UNISIG’s UNE6-2i-750-CR small-diameter gundrilling ...

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 ...

If you are like us, you probably just spin up your own code for a lot of simple projects. But that’s wasteful if you are trying to do anything serious. Take a robot, for example. Are you using ROS ...

[Jack Qiao] wanted an autonomous robot that could be handy around an ever-changing shop. He didn’t want a robot he’d have to baby sit. If he said, ‘bring me the 100 ohm resistors’, it would go find ...

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 ...

For 10 years now, the Robot Operating System (ROS) has been used to write robot software. It is a system that is frequently used by students in the Master of Science in Robotics program at ...

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 ...

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