Robotics archives

134 posts

Optimise your ROS snap – Part 4

By gbeuzeboc, 21 April 2023

Welcome to Part 4 of our “optimise your ROS snap” blog series. Make sure to check Part 3 before. This fourth part is going to explain what dynamic library...

Optimise your ROS snap – Part 3

By gbeuzeboc, 17 April 2023

Welcome to Part 3 of our “optimise your ROS snap” blog series. Make sure to check Part 2. This third part is going to present safe optimisations consisting of...

Optimise your ROS snap – Part 2

By gbeuzeboc, 11 April 2023

Welcome to Part 2 of the “optimise your ROS snap” blog series. Make sure to check Part 1 before reading this blog post. This second part is going to present...

Optimise your ROS snap – Part 1

By gbeuzeboc, 6 April 2023

Do you want to optimise the performance of your ROS snap? We reduced the size of the installed Gazebo snap by 95%! This is how you can do it for your snap....

Snapping out of Docker: a robotics guide for migrating Docker to Snap

By Giuseppe Barbieri, 23 March 2023

In this blog post, we are going to see when and how to migrate a ROS application currently deployed with Docker to Snap. This topic is also covered on our...

Top 10 robotics snaps in the Snap Store – Part 1

By Gabriel Aguiar Noury, 28 February 2023

The number of robotics applications being distributed by snaps just keeps growing! From toolkits and plugins to dedicated robotics launch files and ROS-based...

Course for deploying ROS applications now available in The Construct

By Gabriel Aguiar Noury, 17 February 2023

We are happy to announce the release of our first e-training course for deploying ROS applications in The Construct. The Construct is the leading e-learning...

ROS 2 Foxy and ROS Melodic EOL – Keep your robots up and running

By Gabriel Aguiar Noury, 27 January 2023

ROS Melodic EOL is around the corner. With more than 1,004 repositories in rosdistro, Melodic is among the top 3 ROS distributions (with Indigo and Kinetic)....

Getting started with ROS security scanning

By Florencia Cabral Berenfus, 16 January 2023

It’s a new year, and an especially great time to reflect on the security of your robots. After all, those interested in breaching it are probably doing the...

ROS Docker; 6 reasons why they are not a good fit

By Gabriel Aguiar Noury, 15 January 2023

The Robot Operating System (ROS) has been powering innovators for the last decade. But as more and more ROS robots are reaching the market, developers face...

The State of Robotics – 2022 news rewind

By Gabriel Aguiar Noury, 23 December 2022

Welcome to our 2022 robotics news rewind! We’ll be highlighting some of the most impressive feats of robotics engineering that we covered throughout the year...

ROS orchestration with snaps

By gbeuzeboc, 22 September 2022

Application orchestration is the process of integrating applications together to automate and synchronise processes. In robotics, this is essential,...