Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.15
May 11, 2021
…has continued building on the Robot Operating System or ROS, it has also received support from major software vendors. Last month, Amazon Web Services Inc. announced support for ROS 2 Foxy Fitzroy, the latest long-term support release for ROS 2, as well as the Gazebo 11 simulation engine and the Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) operating system. Seattle-based Amazon Web Services (AWS) said that “ROS 2 Foxy is the most secure and reliable ROS distribution to date for production robotics application development.” While AWS RoboMaker no longer supports ROS Kinetic, its support of ROS 2 Foxy Fitzroy for simulation and development…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.08
April 28, 2022
…security vulnerabilities affecting the open-source Robot Operating System, or ROS 2. The Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain-based company claimed that more than 650 devices worldwide are vulnerable. Alias Robotics said it has seen the vulnerabilities in robots owned by NASA, Huawei, and Siemens, as well as in hospitals, banks, and universities. Alias Robotics noted that the security flaws related to ROS 2 could have “devastating consequences” if they are not addressed. ROS 2 was released in February 2015. They could allow distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on robots, asserted Victor Mayoral Vilches, robotics architect and co-founder of Alias Robotics. “That means you can externally…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.64
May 24, 2022
…Open Robotics today announced two features in the Humble ROS 2 release intended to improve performance on platforms that offer hardware accelerators. “The Robot Operating System evolved in a CPU-only world, but newer SoC architectures with onboard hardware accelerators required us to make changes to maximize efficiencies,” said Gerard Andrews, senior product marketing manager for robotics at NVIDIA. “We identified two things for this release—type adaptation and type negotiation.” The features are intended to help robotics developers incorporate machine learning and computer vision into ROS-based applications and will be available in the next Isaac ROS Developer Preview in late June,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.96
May 05, 2022
…system with improved perception, increased payload capacity, support for ROS 2, and auto-docking capabilities. “This year marks 10 years since we started working with the Open Robotics’ founding team on the TurtleBot 2,” said Bryan Webb, president of Clearpath Robotics. “We are very excited to continue our support for the open-source community by providing cutting-edge technology for robotics research, development, and education.” “Turtlebot 4 offers automatic charging, the latest sensors and computing, as well as larger and heavier payload support,” he added. “Furthermore, Clearpath Robotics is committed to offering a world-class user experience at an affordable price point.” Clearpath Robotics…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.92
January 11, 2022
…of useful robots, said Cogniteam. Source: Cogniteam NVIDIA and ROS support The latest NVIDIA Isaac release includes support for the Robot Operating System (ROS) developer community. NVIDIA has released new Isaac GEMs, hardware-accelerated software packages that make it easier for ROS developers to build high-performance AI-enabled robots on the Jetson platform. Software developers can now install advanced AI algorithms from NVIDIA Isaac ROS GEMs and standard ROS packages in just a few clicks, said NVIDIA and Cogniteam. The cloud-based approach allows teams to collaborate anywhere around the world, they added. “We’ve been synchronizing ROS and other third-party integrations since the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.09
September 06, 2022
…speed up development. Source: Lanner Electronics NVIDIA provides Isaac ROS GEMs The new system uses Lanner's EAI-I130 NVIDIA Jetson-based edge AI computing appliance and MOV.AI's Robotics Engine Platform, which incorporates NVIDIA Isaac ROS GEMs. The Robot Operating System (ROS)-based GEMs are hardware-accelerated packages for perception, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) navigation, image processing, and more. Optimized for AI functionality, performance, and ease of deployment, Lanner said its Edge AI appliances are NVIDIA NGC-ready, compatible with NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs). Developers can drag and drop the NVIDIA Isaac ROS GEMs directly in the MOV.AI development tools to quickly build high-performance…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.91
December 15, 2022
…offer open-source tools such as the Robot Operating System (ROS), Gazebo, and Open-RMF for free. Intrinsic plans to expand ROS tools Intrinsic came out of X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory, and is now independently run under the Mountain View, Calif-based company. It primarily creates software for developers of industrial automation. Intrinsic has already been using ROS to help build its tools, Tan White noted. “Our team is eager to welcome and work with our new colleagues, expand our use and integration of ROS tools, and build the Intrinsic platform,” she said. “As we work together to support and serve developers, we…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.91
August 30, 2023
…hardware and the application software.” Apex.AI SDK compatible with ROS plus safety-certified Palo Alto, Calif.-based Apex.AI said it has applied its experience in robotics and artificial intelligence to develop operating systems for autonomous vehicles. The company claimed that its SDK enables customers to accelerate software development for specific mobility applications. Apex.AI noted that its products are based on open-source software such as the Robot Operating System (ROS) or Eclipse iceoryx. It then adds proprietary support for commercial and safety-critical applications such as real-time determinism. Key functions of the Combined Powers architecture are based on ROS, making it a good fit…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.83
October 19, 2022
…build non-differentiating tools in-house,” Linnell added. RaaS platform monitors ROS systems Founded in 2017, Formant said robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) providers including Canvas Technology, Blue River Technologies, and Burro have chosen its data platform. Initially released for systems using the Robot Operating System (ROS), Formant's free tier will let engineers easily monitor ROS topics and key metrics from their devices via SSH out of the box, said the company. A user can also send commands to a robot, or even enter into full teleoperation mode to remotely control the robot, all with minimal setup time, it claimed. “Formant's free tier provides any…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.82
May 20, 2022
…and adaptive system-on-modules, or SOMs. With native support for ROS 2, the open-source Robotics Operating System, and prebuilt interfaces, the new SOM kit enables rapid development of hardware-accelerated applications for robotics, machine vision, and industrial communication and control, said AMD. “The Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kits builds on the success of our Kria SOMs and KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit for AI and embedded developers, providing roboticists with a complete, out-of-the-box solution for this rapidly growing application space,” stated Chetan Khona, senior director of industrial, vision, healthcare, and sciences markets at AMD. “Roboticists will now be able to work in…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.79
June 12, 2023
…explore just how they might be used. NVIDIA Isaac ROS takes robots to the edge In October 2022, NVIDIA Corp. released Isaac ROS Developer Preview (DP) 2, which uses the open-source Robot Operating System (ROS 2) to enhance robot capabilities with advanced cloud and edge software. The company said its updated software included innovations and features for robustness, including an array of task management tools for AMR fleets. ROS 2 developers can use it to develop additional capabilities for their unique applications, it said. Specifically, NVIDIA's Isaac ROS includes individual packages called GEMs (Generalized Machine Learning Systems) and comprehensive pipelines…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.54
December 14, 2021
…meet certification requirements. Apex.OS is a real-time fork of ROS 2.” “Our first challenge was that real-time processing could not rely on dynamic memory allocation, which happens almost automatically in C++,” he explained. “In automotive systems, resources are constrained, and memory could run out.” “We've reworked memory allocation to be static when booting up CPUs,” Becker said. “Memory is pre-allocated, which is a major change.” “Second, ROS relies on locking,” he added. “We changed it to never write directly to disk but to the buffer, decoupling access from execution.” Also this year, Apex.AI opened new offices in Stuttgart, Germany, and…
