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Blog posts tagged
"ROS"

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
18 March 2021

The State of Robotics – February 2021

Robotics Article

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
8 March 2021

ROS Kinetic and Ubuntu 16.04 EOL: how to mitigate the impact

Robotics Article

For more than ten years, the Robot Operating System (ROS) has been enabling innovators around the world to develop their robot platforms and applications. Through its collection of tools, libraries, and conventions, ROS simplifies the task of creating complex and robust robot behaviour.  Ubuntu has been the primary platform for ROS from t ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
19 February 2021

The State of Robotics – January 2021

Robotics Article

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 ...

Kyle Fazzari
9 December 2020

The State of Robotics – November 2020

Robotics Article

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 robotics.community@c ...

sidfaber
17 November 2020

Distribute ROS 2 across machines with MicroK8s

Cloud and server Article

Introduction Our simple ROS 2 talker and listener setup runs well on a single Kubernetes node, now let’s distribute it out across multiple computers. This article builds upon our simple ROS 2 talker / listener setup by running it on multiple K8s nodes. At the completion of this setup expect to have a ROS2 Kubernetes ...

sidfaber
6 November 2020

The State of Robotics – October 2020

Robotics Article

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

anastasiavalti
5 November 2020

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

Robotics Article

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. ...

Kyle Fazzari
12 September 2020

The State of Robotics – August 2020

Robotics Article

So that’s the summer gone (hopefully, that heat was awful). Or winter if that’s where you are. Seasons change and so does the state of robotics. Fortunately, that’s what we’re here for. Before we get into it, as ever, If you’re working on any robotics projects that you’d like us to talk about, be sure ...

sidfaber
3 September 2020

Tutorial: Getting Started with ROS

Robotics Article

ROS, the Robot Operating System, is the platform of choice for robot development. However, the breadth and depth of existing documentation can be daunting for the ROS beginner. Where should you start learning about ROS 2 on Ubuntu? All robots based on ROS and ROS 2 are programmed using five simple but core constructs: Nodes ...

Kyle Fazzari
17 August 2020

How to build a snap using ROS 2 Foxy

Robotics Article

The snapcraft CLI (the tool used to create snaps) has long had support for building snaps that use both ROS 1 and ROS 2. ROS 2 Foxy Fitzroy is the latest ROS 2 LTS, which runs on Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa). The snapcraft CLI recently gained experimental support for building Foxy snaps, so I wanted ...

Adi Singh
7 August 2020

The State of Robotics – July 2020

Robotics Article

We know a lot of you are on vacation so we’ll keep this month’s State of Robotics edition short and sweet. Try out the Hello World of ROS Looking for an easy way to get familiar with ROS 2? We recently published a few helpers on how to simulate robots with turtlesim to help our ...

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