Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 15.76
May 11, 2021
…reuse by robotics developers. ROS Navigation overivew (http://wiki.ros.org/navigation/Tutorials/RobotSetup). Source: Open Robotics How long would it take to build robotics applications in ROS before compared with Foxy? Hansen: Foxy provides a high bar for features, tools, and quality that has been previously hard to achieve without a large engineering effort. Using Foxy as a starting point gives developers a big head start over starting from scratch, saving development and testing time. Depending on the application, from a home cleaning robot to a lunar rover, the amount of time savings varies. Were features such as the regulated pure pursuit controller, waypoint follower,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 15.20
October 21, 2022
…and reference platform and the German VDA 5050 standard. “Open Robotics has been a great contributor to the industry,” acknowledged Theobald. “OpenRMF is more of an implementation than a standard. It was designed to work in a hospital in Singapore, but another company couldn’t just adopt it. We are in partnership discussions.” “There has been extensive proof ... that Open-RMF is an open-source initiative that enables interoperability and is available for use by anyone that wants to use it,” said Open Robotics in an e-mailed response to this article. “Singapore was but the first deployment, but certainly not the only…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.77
May 24, 2022
…advantage of the latest compute hardware. NVIDIA Corp. and 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…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.16
April 26, 2023
…latest ROS 2 distribution. The company's team worked with Open Robotics last year to include adaptation and type negotiation to improve the ROS performance on compute platforms that offer hardware accelerators. They also implemented adaptation and type negotiation for Isaac ROS called NITROS (NVIDIA Isaac Transport for ROS). The latest NVIDIA Isaac ROS Developer Preview 3 (DP3) release offers major updates and enhancements. Understanding NVIDIA Isaac ROS Developer Preview 3 NVIDIA Isaac ROS DP3 includes many new features, enabling the ROS community to benefit from hardware acceleration. Highlights include a new map localizer to automatically localize the robot, updated NvBlox…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.71
April 17, 2023
…for Money, Loved by Users, Great Support, Meet Requirements) Open Robotics (Easy to Use, Value for Money, Loved by Users, Meet Requirements) ABB's team displays Qviro awards at Automatica 2022. Source: Qviro Innovation essential to Industry 4.0 Qviro said its commitment to listening to its customers and using their feedback to drive innovation and growth is essential in Industry 4.0, where technology is continuously evolving. Reviews play a critical role in helping companies stay ahead of the curve, it added. “The Spring Awards represent the voice of those who have already experienced the products, and the award badges serve as…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.66
March 14, 2023
…Humble release was a key accomplishment in partnership with Open Robotics. We improved the framework to make it easier to build hardware accelerated ROS 2 applications. We launched a new webinar series for ROS developers that has been extremely well received and available for on-demand viewing. We’re extremely proud of the release of the NVIDIA Jetson Orin edge AI platform, the highest-performance, energy-efficient computer for roboticists currently available (per MLPerf benchmarks). It’s the brains of a new generation of autonomous robots that can sense and perceive the world better and faster. Can you give some examples of how developers are…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.50
April 25, 2022
…MiR, AutoGuide Mobile Robots, Third Wave Automation, A3, and Open Robotics, is part of MassRobotics' AMR Interoperability Working Group. “Going two or three years back, an installation of two or three AMRs was really the standard,” Nicolay said. “You saw a lot of customers started with small fleets just to test the technology. “But these days, you have installations of multiple robots—20, 30, and beyond— and not only from one vendor, but from multiple vendors for different applications, different use cases,” he added. “There really is a demand for a single internal logistics system.” The company has an ROI Calculator…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.06
May 26, 2023
…with existing warehouse management systems (WMS) and manufacturing execution systems (MES) remain. Speaking of making robots easier to use, Open Robotics released ROS 2 Iron Irwini, marking the continuing evolution of the open-source Robot Operating System from an academic tool to a framework for commercial robotics development. Intrinsic, which Alphabet acquired from Open Robotics, announced the beta version of its Flowstate product for developers. “We've seen a lot of demand in AMRs, but it's still an immature integration environment,” noted John Bubnikovich, U.S. country leader at ABB Robotics.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.29
November 14, 2021
…Industrial Robots AutoGuide Mobile Robots Third Wave Automation InOrbit Open Robotics A key focus of this standards effort is to allow AMRs of different types to share status information or “rules of the road.” For example, the standard addresses data points such as common reference location, current location, a robot’s state (active versus idle), and future destination. The standard also enables the creation of operational dashboards so managers can gain insights into fleet productivity and utilization. However, it is not meant as an orchestration platform or some type of overarching fleet controller, explained Walker, who is on the standards committee.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.26
March 22, 2022
…computing system for industrial digital twins. NVIDIA partnered with Open Robotics to release new accelerated algorithms for realistic simulations, such as an Amazon warehouse, said Talla. “Omniverse is central to our robotics platforms,” said Huang as he announced updates and new releases for Omniverse. “And like NASA and Amazon, we and our customers in robotics and industrial automation realize the importance of digital twins and Omniverse.” Nova Orin includes tools for simulating a robot in Isaac Sim on Omniverse. NVIDIA said it plans to offer new hardware-accelerated modules, or Isaac ROS GEMs. They are intended to enable mobile robots to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.61
December 22, 2021
…interoperability efforts with organizations like MassRobotics or startups like Open Robotics and InOrbit. Glynn: Absolutely. The increased focus on omnichannel fulfillment accelerated by the pandemic is not going away. On top of that, consumers now expect delivery quicker than ever before. These external pressures are going to require companies to adapt or fall behind and this will lead to more money pouring into companies developing the solutions that operators are seeking. Elazary: I do expect we'll see more funding and more consolidation in this space. Brands and 3PLs [third-party logistics providers] have had to face a perfect storm since the…
