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Blog posts tagged
"ROS"

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
13 August 2021

Open Source Robotics Challenges – Planning for Security

Robotics Article

Open Source Robotics Challenges is a series of blogs that will share guidelines and advice for open source companies to overcome market barriers.  We will touch on topics regularly raised by companies in our open source community such as security awareness, prototyping strategies, safety architecture, adoption and more. Our aim is to help ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
23 July 2021

The State of Robotics – June 2021

Robotics Article

June was packed with interesting news. So this monthly blog won’t disappoint our readers. If you haven’t seen it already, we are running a content survey. It will take you 7 minutes to complete and it will help us create the content that you want to read. So if you haven’t done it yet, here ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
3 June 2021

ROS Kinetic migration and its challenges – A community perspective.

Robotics Article

ROS Kinetic has come to EOL. We have discussed the impact of EOL in the past, but with its final sync out on May 12th, ROS Kinetic is no longer supported. Together with Ubuntu Xenial, both distributions will no longer receive security updates or bug fixes.  ROS second LTS release became the largest rosdistro with ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
26 April 2021

ROS ESM: 15 things you need to know

Robotics Article

With the End of Life of ROS Noetic, we have received many questions from people in the robotics community who are interested in learning about Robot Operating System Extended Security Maintenance (ROS ESM). This blog aims to answer those questions. For more information on this topic, please have a look at our webpage If after ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
9 April 2021

The State of Robotics – March 2021

Robotics Article

It’s never too late to learn. As any reinforcement learning agent, we get rewarded by the new knowledge that we acquire. Likewise, we learn by doing, by rolling up our sleeves and getting to work. (Do you want a hands-on book on Reinforcement Learning? Here is my personal favourite) March has shown us great examples ...

Canonical
6 April 2021

Hardened ROS with 10 year security from Open Robotics and Canonical

Canonical announcements Article

Canonical ROS ESM customers now can access a long-term supported ROS and Ubuntu environment by the Ubuntu and ROS experts. Learn more about ROS ESM. 6 April 2021: Canonical and Open Robotics announced today a partnership for Robot Operating System (ROS) Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) and enterprise support, as part of Ubuntu Advantag ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
6 April 2021

What is ROS Extended Security Maintenance?

Robotics Article

Developing robots is not like building apps or IoT devices. Robots balance complex features such as scene awareness, social intelligence, physical intelligence, communication, dialogue, learning from interaction, memory, long-term autonomy, safe failure… the list goes on and on.  As a result, robotics startups can take years to get to a m ...

Jeremie Deray
25 March 2021

Getting started with micro-ROS on the Raspberry Pi Pico

Robotics Article

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 it to the microcontroller. We thus assume that you are somewhat familiar with ROS 2 development and VSCode. What is this all about? ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
18 March 2021

The State of Robotics – February 2021

Robotics Article

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 month where two robots landed on Mars, telling us all to “dare mighty things”.  Perseverance and Ingenuity  Do you want to know what Mars sounds like? Well, here ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
8 March 2021

ROS Kinetic and Ubuntu 16.04 EOL: how to mitigate the impact

Robotics Article

For more than ten years, the Robot Operating System (ROS) has been enabling innovators around the world to develop their robot platforms and applications. Through its collection of tools, libraries, and conventions, ROS simplifies the task of creating complex and robust robot behaviour.  Ubuntu has been the primary platform for ROS from t ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
19 February 2021

The State of Robotics – January 2021

Robotics Article

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, we all faced new challenges, we all united and did our best to help each other. We are grateful for the effort of our ...

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