Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.87
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 12.95
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 12.48
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 12.43
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 25.24
January 13, 2023
…that it had acquired Open Source Robotics Corp. (OSRC), Open Robotics’ commercial division, for an undisclosed amount. In April 2022, Intrinsic purchased robotic software company Vicarious. The Alphabet unit added the layoffs “will ensure Intrinsic can continue to allocate resources to our highest-priority initiatives, such as building our software and AI platform, integrating the recent strategic acquisitions of Vicarious and OSRC (commercial arm Open Robotics), and working with key industry partners.” Intrinsic joins downward tech trend Intrinsic is the latest in a long line of technology companies to announce staff cuts in the past few months. Verily Life Sciences, another…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 37.19
December 15, 2022
…the deal because it is a separate part of Open Robotics. The foundation will continue to manage and offer open-source tools such as the Robot Operating System (ROS), Gazebo, and Open-RMF for free. Intrinsic plans to expand ROS tools Intrinsic came out of X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory, and is now independently run under the Mountain View, Calif-based company. It primarily creates software for developers of industrial automation. Intrinsic has already been using ROS to help build its tools, Tan White noted. “Our team is eager to welcome and work with our new colleagues, expand our use and integration of ROS…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 19.03
December 01, 2022
…Singapore, South-East Asia, and Oceania. The center will use Open Robotics’ Robotics Middleware Framework, or RMF, and will have interoperability with “complex and heterogenous multi-robot systems.” “This is an important step toward enabling stronger and seamless human-machine collaboration, where mobile robots, using natural or existing infrastructure, perform autonomous movement of goods (handling, moving, and storing warehouse assets) as they work alongside humans,” the company said. OMRON working to address Asia-Pacific needs Kyoto, Japan-based OMRON said it will work with its industry partners in robotics and automation in the new center to address some of the biggest logistics challenges facing Asia…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.95
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 16.78
October 20, 2022
…consistent Isaac ROS releases,” said Brian Gerkey, CEO of Open Robotics. “With 20 Isaac ROS packages released in the past year, NVIDIA is making it easier for developers to embrace AI and improve the perception stacks in their ROS based applications.” For more information about the latest performance numbers for key Isaac ROS packages, see Isaac ROS Performance Summary. Improved Stereo Depth Performance of the BI3D model on Flat Featureless Surfaces. At left, image of man pushing cart of crates and associated DNN output images: DP1.1 release in the middle, DP2 release on the right. Source: NVIDIA Free Training for…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 19.37
October 10, 2022
…robots. Other signatories included Agility Robotics, ANYbotics, Clearpath Robotics, Open Robotics, and Unitree. “We are hopeful this coalition of industry leaders and our strength in numbers will encourage policymakers to engage on this issue to help us promote the safe use of mobile robots and prohibit their misuse,” a spokesperson for Boston Dynamics told Robotics 24/7. Waltham, Mass.-based Boston Dynamics said the companies signed the letter in response to several videos making the rounds on social media of people adding weapons to commercially available robots. “As with any new technology offering new capabilities, the emergence of advanced mobile robots offers…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.53
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 18.00
May 20, 2022
…Nano, claimed AMD. AMD said it is collaborating with Open Robotics, which creates open-source robotics software and hardware, to validate and ensure compliance of its ROS 2 implementation. “The Kria SOM family and KR260 Starter Kit provide the robotics community with a great combination of performance, flexibility, and rapid development time,” said Brian Gerkey, CEO of Open Robotics. “Users can create software-defined hardware and build solutions offering high performance per watt, with security, energy efficiency, and adaptability.” “Open Robotics is excited to be collaborating with AMD-Xilinx to understand and address the needs of roboticists using hardware acceleration to build new…
