The Robot Operating System (ROS) has a deeper foothold in the robotics industry than you might think. Since it was first developed in 2007, the open-source framework for developing robotics software ...

Northwestern Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) student Maurice Rahme talks about what he learned teaching a Baxter robot to play checkers. Embedded Systems in Robotics is one of three required ...

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 ...

The ROBOTCORE™ hardware acceleration framework helps roboticists build “robot chips” and make robot computations faster, more deterministic and power efficient through FPGAs and GPUs. VITORIA-GASTEIZ, ...

Just a few months after buying fellow robotic software firm Vicarious, Alphabet-owned Intrinsic has acquired several divisions within Open Robotics, the company behind the widely used robotics ...

The 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) wrapped up last month, and while teams from Korea and the U.S. took away $3.5M in prize money, the real winner was the open source robotics movement. Of the 23 ...

The robotics software ROS 2, on Ubuntu 20.04, is now available on iWave’s 100 x 72mm Pico-ITX single-board computers with i.MX 8QM, i.MX 8M Plus and i.MX 8M Mini application processors. ROS is a ...