Blog posts tagged
"ROS"

109 posts

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
8 March 2021

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

Article Robotics

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...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
8 March 2021

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
19 February 2021

The State of Robotics – January 2021

Article Robotics

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

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
19 February 2021

Kyle Fazzari
9 December 2020

The State of Robotics – November 2020

Article Robotics

Goodbye Thanksgiving (well, for some of us), hello Christmas! The holiday season really is the best, and it always brings interesting robotics news, which we will now distill into a quick dose of delightful and easily-digestible tidbits. As always, if you’d like to see your work showcased here, please send an email to...

Kyle Fazzari
9 December 2020

sidfaber
17 November 2020

Distribute ROS 2 across machines with MicroK8s

Article Cloud and server

Introduction Our simple ROS 2 talker and listener setup runs well on a single Kubernetes node, now let’s distribute it out across multiple computers. This article builds upon our simple ROS 2 talker / listener setup by running it on multiple K8s nodes. At the completion of this setup expect to have a ROS2 Kubernetes

sidfaber
17 November 2020

sidfaber
6 November 2020

The State of Robotics – October 2020

Article Robotics

This post marks the one year anniversary of the Ubuntu Robotics newsletter: the place we showcase our work and discussing cool robotics happenings.

sidfaber
6 November 2020

anastasiavalti
5 November 2020

Ubuntu at ROS World 2020: Learn how to do more for your robot

Article Robotics

Come and connect with the Ubuntu robotics team on November 12th to answer all of your questions. This is the first time ROSCon has ever been virtual and is the first time it’s ever been free to attend, so we’re looking forward to seeing tons of new faces! We have ROS experts and field engineers ready and waiting to talk.

anastasiavalti
5 November 2020

Kyle Fazzari
12 September 2020

The State of Robotics – August 2020

Article Robotics

So that’s the summer gone (hopefully, that heat was awful). Or winter if that’s where you are. Seasons change and so does the state of robotics. Fortunately, that’s what we’re here for. Before we get into it, as ever, If you’re working on any robotics projects that you’d like us to talk about, be sure

Kyle Fazzari
12 September 2020

sidfaber
3 September 2020

Tutorial: Getting Started with ROS

Article Robotics

ROS, the Robot Operating System, is the platform of choice for robot development. However, the breadth and depth of existing documentation can be daunting for the ROS beginner. Where should you start learning about ROS 2 on Ubuntu? All robots based on ROS and ROS 2 are programmed using five simple but core constructs: Nodes

sidfaber
3 September 2020

Kyle Fazzari
17 August 2020

How to build a snap using ROS 2 Foxy

Article Robotics

The snapcraft CLI (the tool used to create snaps) has long had support for building snaps that use both ROS 1 and ROS 2. ROS 2 Foxy Fitzroy is the latest ROS 2 LTS, which runs on Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa). The snapcraft CLI recently gained experimental support for building Foxy snaps, so I wanted

Kyle Fazzari
17 August 2020

Adi Singh
7 August 2020

The State of Robotics – July 2020

Article Robotics

We know a lot of you are on vacation so we’ll keep this month’s State of Robotics edition short and sweet. Try out the Hello World of ROS Looking for an easy way to get familiar with ROS 2? We recently published a few helpers on how to simulate robots with turtlesim to help our

Adi Singh
7 August 2020

sidfaber
24 July 2020

Simulate the TurtleBot3

Article Robotics

Interested in getting started in robotics? There’s no need to purchase expensive hardware before you try some things out: simulate a TurtleBot3 instead! The simulator is complete with LIDAR, a camera, a gyro and many other sensors and actuators. You can also see this installation in action at the Ubuntu Robotics YouTube...

sidfaber
24 July 2020

sidfaber
17 July 2020

ROS Security Benchmark open for public comment

Article Robotics

We’re pleased to announce that the Center for Internet Security (CIS) has publicly released the ROS Security Benchmark for community discussion. When published, this benchmark will document community best-practice configuration settings to properly secure ROS Melodic running on Ubuntu Bionic. Hopefully this is just the...

sidfaber
17 July 2020

sidfaber
13 July 2020

Robotics Recap: Learning, Programming & Snapping ROS 2

Article Robotics

Robotics@Canonical puts a strong focus on the migration from ROS to ROS 2. ROS 2 benefits from many improvements, especially robot security. Our goal is to make it easy for you to transition to ROS 2, whether you’re completely new to ROS or a seasoned engineer retooling for a new environment. Your new platform should

sidfaber
13 July 2020

Adi Singh
8 July 2020

The State of Robotics – June 2020

Article Robotics

ROS, Ripple and reflections – In this month’s edition of The State of Robotics, we’ll tell you about the recently discovered Ripple vulnerability, the latest and greatest in robots reflecting nature, and a dash of news from the ROS universe. Foxy Fitzroy released ROS 2 Foxy Fitzroy was released on June 5 for Ubuntu 20.04.

Adi Singh
8 July 2020

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