Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.58
October 27, 2021
…subsidiary. The nonprofit has developed the Robot Operating System (ROS) and the Ignition simulation software formerly known as Gazebo. Hospital pain points lead to Open-RMF Open-RMF arose out of efforts in 2018 to get autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for cleaning, delivery, security, and other applications to operate in the same space within hospitals in Singapore. Productivity depends on such robots being able to communicate with one another and be orchestrated by human managers or higher-level systems. “Our initial customer request was to coordinate the behavior of multiple AMRs from different vendors,” recalled Brian Gerkey, co-founder and CEO of Open Robotics.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.99
October 23, 2021
…products as well. We've built the world's most powerful ROS 2 controller.” Open-source community supports IAC ADLINK has also partnered with The Autoware Foundation, the Open Source Robotics Foundation, and the Eclipse Foundation to provide the IAC teams with open-source tools and expertise, from Robot Operating System and ROS 2 robotics controllers to edge AI systems. The Taiwan-based company is supplying each university team with an ADLINK AVA-3501-series rugged edge platform for in-vehicle computing. The AVA-3501 uses AI to work through gigabytes of image analysis in real time to cope with the massive data load of high-speed, autonomous driving. All…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.35
October 21, 2021
…a critical challenge for autonomous robots. In conjunction with ROS World 2021, NVIDIA Corp. announced its latest efforts to deliver performant perception technologies to the Robot Operating System developer community. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company said these initiatives will accelerate product development, improve performance, and simplify the task of incorporating computer vision and artificial intelligence functionality into ROS-based applications. NVIDIA claimed that it will provide the highest-performing, real-time stereo odometry system as a ROS package. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company also noted that all NVIDIA inference deep neural networks (DNNs) will be available on NVIDIA GPU Cloud (NGC) as a…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.97
October 19, 2021
…MoveIt, which integrates within the open-source Robot Operating System (ROS) to enable developers to build automation applications. The Boulder, Colo.-based company added that its software and services have helped corporations such as Google, Hyundai, and Samsung solve difficult manipulation problems. NASA recently awarded PickNik an Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant for robot arm motion planning in microgravity environments. The company has also announced the development of a commercialized open-core model of MoveIt, branded MoveIt Studio. It will focus on supervised autonomy and teleoperation to provide localized autonomous action in high-latency environments with the ability to reduce operator…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.47
October 19, 2021
…company. It is based on the Robot Operating System (ROS) and has a Web-based user interface. “Robot development is complex, and there are very few development tools to speed it up,” said Limor Schwietzer, founder and chief technology officer of MOV.AI. “ROS is great and constantly evolving, but it was built for robotics researchers that do not need to deal with enterprise needs such as quality, versioning or security.” “We built a platform that non-expert developers can use to pick and choose the functionality they need and easily configure it into their robot software,” he said. “We also added all…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.14
October 16, 2021
…know what you are getting. Ease of use with ROS: SwRI uses the Robot Operating System in almost all its projects, so this is a consideration for us. If you also use ROS, it is always helpful if the robot is currently supported by existing ROS drivers and Unified Robot Description Formats (URDFs), which are essentially robot model files. However, it is also possible to write your own drivers and URDFs, so this is a relatively minor consideration. Some Closing Thoughts Collaborative robots are becoming increasingly useful and capable. It is worth remembering they are really nothing more than force-limited…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.30
October 15, 2021
…Jason Walker, CEO of Waypoint Robotics. “InOrbit even has ROS code with the standard baked in. We wanted to bring to robotics development what agile [methodology] does—rapid iterations versus waiting a year for perfection in the waterfall approach.” InOrbit recently joined MassRobotics' standard effort. Its CEO, Florian Pestoni, is also co-founder of the Robot Operations Group (ROG), an industry community dedicated to advancing robot operations, or RobOps, best practices. ROG had its latest meeting at the A3 AMR & Logistics Conference. AMR & Logistics Conference panel on interoperability, from left: Robert Huschka, A3; Aaron Prather, FedEx; Florian Pestoni, InOrbit; Daniel…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.79
October 13, 2021
…dramatically decreases development time and cost.” Nimbus integrates with ROS Nimbus offers pre-developed drivers and software packages in a drag-and-drop environment, making it easy to incorporate advanced sensors and complicated features. It also integrates with the open-source Robot Operating System (ROS) and other third-party resources. Yehuda Elmaliah, CEO of Cogniteam “In the past, hardware-focused teams would focus their resources on developing the physical aspects of the robot,” said Dr. Yehuda Elmaliah, CEO of Cogniteam. “They become tied down by the unexpectedly complex nature of robotic software development.” “The Nimbus cloud-based platform makes it possible to share robot access through multiple…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.29
October 05, 2021
…shows that the simulator can be controlled from both ROS and Python. The outputs of the simulator include the digital twin and synthetic data, which can be used to train perception models. Functional block diagram of NVIDIA Isaac Sim on Omniverse. Source: NVIDIA After the datasets are generated, formatting them properly to work with the NVIDIA TAO Toolkit enables you to greatly reduce the amount of time and expense of training the models while ensuring that the models are accurate and performant. The toolkit supports segmentation, classification, and object detection models. The datasets that are synthetically generated in NVIDIA Isaac…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.38
September 22, 2021
…that it is working with Open Robotics to improve ROS 2 performance on its Jetson platform for artificial intelligence at the edge and its GPU-based systems. The company said this initiative will enable robotics developers to more easily and quickly incorporate computer vision and machine learning functionality into systems based on the Robot Operating System (ROS). “We've been working closely with Open Robotics to bring a host of NVIDIA AI technologies to the ROS community,” said Murali Gopalakrishna, head of product management, autonomous machines, and general manager for robotics at NVIDIA. “We want to make it seamless for developers to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.93
September 03, 2021
…that it has worked with eProsima to port the micro-ROS development framework into its Renesas Advanced microcontroller units, or RA MCUs. The Renesas EK-RA6M5 Evaluation Kit for RA MCUs is the official supported reference platform for micro-ROS, they said. The goal is to ease development of professional robotics applications, said the companies. “Robotics is becoming increasingly important as Industry 4.0 and Industrial IoT gain steam,” said Roger Wendelken, senior vice president in the IoT and Infrastructure Business Unit at Renesas. “The performance and feature set of the RA family make it the best choice for robotic applications, and we’re pleased…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.07
August 31, 2021
…to their needs,” he said. MOV.AI builds platform on ROS The dramatic growth of e-commerce is driving the materials handling and logistics markets, said the companies. The COVID-19 pandemic helped grow U.S. online sales to $791 billion in 2020, up 32% from the prior year, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. The combination of MOV.AI's Robotics Engine Platform and Velodyne’s Puck sensors will allow mobile robot makers and integrators to address the challenges of safely moving in environments such as warehouses and e-commerce fulfillment centers. The Robotics Engine is based on the Robot Operating System (ROS) and includes an…
