Robotics archives
139 posts
What is ROS Extended Security Maintenance?
By Gabriel Aguiar Noury, 6 April 2021
Developing robots is not like building apps or IoT devices. Robots balance complex features such as scene awareness, social intelligence, physical...
Ubuntu in the wild – 30th of March 2021
By Leia Ruffini, 30 March 2021
The Ubuntu in the wild blog post ropes in the latest highlights about Ubuntu and Canonical around the world on a bi-weekly basis.
Getting started with micro-ROS on the Raspberry Pi Pico
By Jeremie Deray, 25 March 2021
In this post we will see how the Raspberry Pi Pico can natively speak to a ROS 2 graph using micro-ROS. We will set up a project in VSCode, compile and upload...
The State of Robotics – February 2021
By Gabriel Aguiar Noury, 18 March 2021
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...
Ubuntu in the wild – 17th of March 2021
By Andreea Munteanu, 17 March 2021
The Ubuntu in the wild blog post ropes in the latest highlights about Ubuntu and Canonical around the world on a bi-weekly basis.
ROS Kinetic and Ubuntu 16.04 EOL: how to mitigate the impact
By Gabriel Aguiar Noury, 8 March 2021
For more than ten years, the Robot Operating System (ROS) has been enabling innovators around the world to develop their robot platforms and applications....
Ubuntu in the wild – 2nd of March 2021
By Andreea Munteanu, 2 March 2021
The Ubuntu in the wild blog post ropes in the latest highlights about Ubuntu and Canonical around the world on a bi-weekly basis. It is a summary of all the...
The State of Robotics – January 2021
By Gabriel Aguiar Noury, 19 February 2021
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,...
The State of Robotics – November 2020
By Kyle Fazzari, 9 December 2020
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...
Exploring ROS 2 Kubernetes configurations
By sidfaber, 23 November 2020
Kubernetes and robotics make a great match. However, as we have seen, robots running ROS 2 can be tricky to set up on Kubernetes. This blog series has...
Distribute ROS 2 across machines with MicroK8s
By sidfaber, 17 November 2020
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...