Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is moving out of standard support in May 2025.
Powering robotics in every industry
Develop, deploy and maintain your fleet of robots with Ubuntu.
Ubuntu is all your robot needs
We provide you with the essential infrastructure to easily, securely, and reliably deploy your robots
Our open source tools help you:
- Keep your robots up-to-date efficiently and cost-effectively with over-the-air and low bandwidth updates that include failure rollback.
- Comply with cybersecurity requirements with built-in security tools and security maintenance.
- Reduce engineer intervention and operational costs for software maintenance.
- Accelerate software development, including unparalleled flexibility in development, device driver and cloud services.
- Improve the user experience in robotics with increased stability, security, and reduced downtime.
Bringing Ubuntu's worldwide infrastructure to your robot
Deploying a robotics solution?
For more than a decade, Ubuntu has provided the best development environment for robotics developers. Your team can easily build and securely deploy their devices with Ubuntu Core, an operating system optimised for IoT and edge devices, and Snaps, fully-confined embedded containers. For low-tech device management, the IoT Snap Store enables developers to unlock a reliable and widely-used update infrastructure that's ideal for robotics applications.
Explore documentationRobotics software updates
Unlock a reliable infrastructure for compressed, transactional, signed, and secure updates
With Ubuntu Core and the Snap store, full containerisation means:
- Transactional, over-the-air updates
- Air-gapped infrastructure
- Data snapshot backup and restore
- Signed software integrity
- Compressed delta updates
Robotics security
Comply with cybersecurity requirements with in-built security for your device
With Ubuntu Core, in-built security means:
- Secure boot
- Full disk encryption
- Signed software packages
- Device recovery
- 10-year security update commitment
Learn about our solutions
Case Study and Whitepaper
Video and Webinar
Enterprise services for robotics companies
Deploy robust platforms with our enterprise services for robotics companies and provide a production-grade solution to your customer.
Our services allow robotics companies to reduce overhead costs and operational expenses for deployment, maintenance, security and support. Our services for robotics companies include:
Device Enablement and Maintenance
Your own production-grade image in our testing infrastructure
Embedded applications depend on the kernel, drivers, libraries, file systems, and runtime environment. How can you guarantee that your robot will continue working after critical security upgrades to the base kernel and the OS?
Our Enablement services allow you to get a production-grade Ubuntu image for your robot, while our Maintenance services guarantee that any security update won't break your device.
No regressions, no surprises.
Reach out to hear moreROS Expanded Security Maintenance
Hardened ROS with 10-year security
ROS ESM is a service by Canonical that provides security maintenance for ROS Long Term Support (LTS) releases and the underlying Ubuntu distributions, starting with ROS Kinetic on Ubuntu 16.04.
This includes core ROS libraries, the underlying Ubuntu system and more than 23,000 packages from the Ubuntu Universe repository.
No more neglecting security updates.
Canonical Embedding Programme
Are your devices running Ubuntu Desktop or Server?
Treat every device on your fleet as a first-class server-grade managed asset, with monitoring, security, role-based access controls, and application lifecycle management. The embedding program includes:
- Security maintenance for Ubuntu Universe and Main
- Ubuntu systems management with Landscape
- Kernel Livepatch service to avoid reboots
- Security certification
- 24/7, open source software support for the full stack.
- Trademark use
Robotics Security Compliance
Security updates will become your ally
Whatever cybersecurity framework you have chosen, including ISO 27000, NIST, PCI, or CIS Controls, Ubuntu helps you stay compliant and reduces your operational risk.
Access automation for hardening and compliance profiles, such as CIS and DISA-STIG, as well as the FIPS 140-2 and Common Criteria certifications.
Ready for all boards
With partners across the industry, we are creating a new kind of embedded OS for hardware platforms. Work with certified hardware to minimise your startup costs and time to market.
Download the optimised OS for your robotics boards
Raspberry Pi
AMD Kria SOMs
Dragonboard
Or check the full list of Ubuntu certified hardware and find the right one for your application.
