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Your first robot: Introduction to the Robot Operating System [2/5]
by Kyle Fazzari on 21 January 2018
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Your first robot: A beginner’s guide to ROS and Ubuntu Core [1/5]
by Kyle Fazzari on 19 December 2017
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From ROS prototype to production on Ubuntu Core
by Kyle Fazzari on 6 April 2017
Please note that this blog post has outdated technical information that may no longer be correct. For latest updated documentation about robotics in Canonical...
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Distributing a ROS system among multiple snaps
by Kyle Fazzari on 22 March 2017
One of the key tenets of snaps is that they bundle their dependencies. The fact that they’re self-contained helps their transactional-ness: upgrading or...
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ROS on arm64 with Ubuntu Core
by Kyle Fazzari on 27 January 2017
Previous Robot Operating System (ROS) releases only supported i386, amd64, and armhf. I even tried building ROS Indigo from source for arm64 about a year ago,...
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Welcoming the Parrot S.L.A.M.dunk: the new drone development kit
by Thibaut Rouffineau on 7 September 2016
Parrot collaborates with Canonical to launch the Parrot S.L.A.M.dunk, a new development kit for the creation of autonomous and obstacle avoidance drones and...
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Canonical launches new ‘#InternetOfToys’ initiative with partners
by Maarten Ectors on 2 October 2015
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The App-Enabled Spider
by Maarten Ectors on 8 September 2015
This is a guest post by the Erle-Robotics team as part of “the startup stories”, a series of blog posts about how and why innovative companies are using...
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The first app-enabled spider
by Maarten Ectors on 5 August 2015
If you are into robot spiders then the erle-spider is something to look forward to. It will be the first app-enabled Snappy Ubuntu Core and ROS powered robot...
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Autopilot Apps & Boards for Drones
by Maarten Ectors on 27 March 2015
Drones are getting Snappy Autopilot Apps. On Indiegogo you can contribute to the PixHawk Fire (PXF). The PixHawk Fire (PXF) is an open hardware cape (daughter...
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Why Drones need Snappy Apps?
by Maarten Ectors on 9 March 2015
Erle-Robotics just showed the world how Snappy Ubuntu Core can power the autopilot in their Erle-Copter drone and push drones to their limits. It is a really...