Robotics archives

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Installing Foxglove Studio is now easier than ever

By Gabriel Aguiar Noury, 11 July 2022

Today, Foxglove announced the release of the Foxglove Studio snap. Foxglove Studio helps you experience the world as a robot does, providing a rich set of...

Install Gazebo for ROS 2 in under a minute

By gbeuzeboc, 8 July 2022

Recently, we announced the beta release of the Gazebo snap to help you install Gazebo for ROS 2. The gazebo snap is easy to install on dozens of Linux...

The State of Robotics – May & June 2022

By Gabriel Aguiar Noury, 4 July 2022

In May, robotics felt the waves of the Hawksbill and Jellyfish. Last month brought us the first LTS for ROS 2, Humble Hawksbill. As part of the ROS community,...

An intro to real-time Linux with Ubuntu

By Edoardo Barbieri, 8 June 2022

A real-time system responds to events within a specified deadline. If the timing constraints of the system are unmet, failure has occurred. In the kernel...

ROS 2 Humble security, a tour of the new and improved features

By Florencia Cabral Berenfus, 25 May 2022

We’re excited about the recent release of ROS 2 Humble Hawksbill, a Long Term Support (LTS) distro, supported for the next five years. ROS 2 releases come out...

Install ROS 2 Humble in Ubuntu 20.04 or 18.04 using LXD containers

By Gabriel Aguiar Noury, 23 May 2022

We welcome the new release of ROS 2 Humble which targets the recently released Ubuntu 22.04. If you want to install it now, please visit the ROS 2 Humble...

How to raise funding for your robotics venture | Chapter 2 – Akara

By Gabriel Aguiar Noury, 20 May 2022

Robotics ventures are different. They face different technical challenges in design, testing and deployment. This has an implication for everything, including...

Kria KR260 – a scalable robotics platform powered with Ubuntu

By Gabriel Aguiar Noury, 17 May 2022

Today, robotics developers have something to look forward to with the release of AMD Kria™ KR260 Robotics Starter Kit. Robotics is a challenging endeavour. By...

Real-time Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Beta – Now Available

By Edoardo Barbieri, 27 April 2022

On 21 April 2022, Canonical announced Real-time Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, available in beta.  Based on upstream v5.15, the 22.04 LTS kernel integrates the out-of-tree...

The State of Robotics – February & March 2022

By Gabriel Aguiar Noury, 6 April 2022

When you use open source software, you establish a connection with its maintainers, contributors, and users. You join a community, leveraging code and...

The State of Robotics – January 2022

By Gabriel Aguiar Noury, 12 February 2022

What a way of starting the year! Setting milestones, helping those in need, and daring to dream. January 2022 starts with one of the biggest technological...