The 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) wrapped up last month, and while teams from Korea and the U.S. took away $3.5M in prize money, the real winner was the open source robotics movement. Of the 23 ...

In the rapidly evolving world of robotics research, choosing the right operating system is paramount to the success of any project. Linux, with its open source ethos and robust capabilities, has ...

A robot is made up of many hardware components each of which requires its own software. Even a small robot arm with a handful of servo motors uses a servo motor library. Add that arm to a wheeled ...

First released in 2007 by two Stanford PhD students who observed their colleague’s lack of entry into the robotics field, the Robot Operating System (ROS) was developed to be a distributed and modular ...

Open Robotics' Katherine Scott looks at robot development, from her entry into the industry to what's happening now in robotics. I spoke with Open Robotics' Katherine Scott, Developer Advocate at Open ...

Just a few months after buying fellow robotic software firm Vicarious, Alphabet-owned Intrinsic has acquired several divisions within Open Robotics, the company behind the widely used robotics ...

Simulators have been a godsend when it comes to testing robots. Real-world testing is lengthy, expensive and potentially dangerous, so anything you can do to work out as many kinks as possible ahead ...

Nvidia and Open Robotics announced a partnership to enhance the ROS 2 (Robot Operating System) development suite. The partnership essentially combines the two most powerful robotics development ...

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Overview Python remains one of the most widely used languages in robotics, thanks to its readability, extensive libraries, ...