Topic: Open Source

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Alphabet-Owned Intrinsic Lays Off 20% of Workforce

January 13, 2023 · Alphabet-owned Intrinsic, which was commercializing Open Robotics' work, is the latest technology company to announce a reduction in staff in the past few months.

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FarmBot Sold a Record Number of Plant-Growing Robots in 2022

December 31, 2022 · 2022 was a good year for FarmBot, as the company released updates to its robots and shipped more units to customers than ever before.

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Intrinsic to Acquire Open Source Robotics Corp. to Expand Robotics Software Development Tools

December 15, 2022 · Intrinsic said it will buy the Open Source Robotics Corp., the commercial subsidiary of the Open Source Robotics Foundation, for an undisclosed amount.

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MOV.AI Releases Flow Development Environment to Simplify ROS Robot Development

December 14, 2022 · MOV.AI Flow is a new visual IDE intended to speed up and streamline software development with the Robot Operating System. It is free and open-source.

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OMRON Opens New Automation Center in Singapore, Uses Open Robotics’ RMF Interoperability Standard

December 1, 2022 · OMRON has turned to Open Robotics' RMF to bring an added layer of interoperability into its centers.

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PickNik Robotics Wins Space Force Contract for On-Orbit Capture, NASA Contract for Machine Learning in Space

October 25, 2022 · PickNik Robotics recently won a U.S. Space Force contract for orbital robot arms, a NASA contract for supervised autonomy, and a Colorado AIA grant for space robotics.

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MassRobotics, Partners Demonstrate Interoperability Standard at AMR and Logistics Week

October 21, 2022 · Interoperability continued to be a hot topic at A3's AMR and Logistics Week, with a panel discussion and demonstrations of the MassRobotics standard and VDA 5050.

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PickNik Robotics Launches MoveIt Studio Developer Platform and SDK

August 16, 2022 · PickNik Robotics designed MoveIt Studio to help engineers develop manipulation applications in a variety of industries, including aerospace, manufacturing, and healthcare.

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How NVIDIA Isaac Sim and BenchBot Can Make Robotics Development Easier

May 29, 2022 · Three researchers at the Queensland University of Technology's Centre for Robotics discuss how BenchBot and NVIDIA Isaac Sim can help developers.

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NVIDIA Improves Perception Performance for ROS 2 Applications

May 24, 2022 · NVIDIA has partnered with Open Robotics on type adaptation and type negotiation, features to improve compute performance for robot perception. It's also presenting at ICRA.

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Clearpath Robotics and Open Robotics Launch TurtleBot 4 With ROS 2 Support

May 5, 2022 · Clearpath and Open Robotics have been collaborating for 10 years, and TurtleBot 4 is the first version of the open-source mobile robot development platform to support ROS 2 out of the box.

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Rapyuta Robotics Obtains Series C Funding for Collaborative Mobile Picking Robots

April 21, 2022 · Rapyuta Robotics, which claims to be the leader in cloud-based, collaborative mobile robots for picking in Japan, has raised a total of $81 million to date as it expands.

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CoreAVI Offers Safe Robotics Designs With Newly Ratified Vulkan SC API

March 2, 2022 · CoreAVI says its VkCore SC, which is based on the new Vulkan Safety-Critical open application programming interface, will help robot and vehicle developers build on embedded safety.

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Webinar: Managing and Optimizing Fleets of Mobile Robots

January 21, 2022 · This Robotics 24/7 Roundtable will discuss what warehouse and logistics operators need to know to benefit from the latest software for managing fleets of mobile robots.

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STMicroelectronics Contributes Microcontrollers to ‘Switchback’ Battlebot to Promote STEM

December 25, 2021 · REV Robotics, which supports robot education and competitions, chose STMicroelectronics' STM32 microcontrollers for their durability and familiarity in its battlebot.

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Apex.AI Raises Series B Round for ROS Based Autonomous Vehicle Operating System

December 14, 2021 · Apex.AI, whose Apex.OS is based on ROS 2, is safety-certified, and is designed to enable easier software development for autonomous vehicles, is looking at new industries and Asia.

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Evolution Gym at MIT CSAIL Gets Soft Robots Into Shape for Basic Tasks

December 6, 2021 · Scientists at MIT CSAIL created a system for co-optimizing the brain and body of soft robots and found that they often resembled real animals while outperforming hand-designed robots.

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PickNik Robotics Offers Beta of MoveIt Studio for Managing Robot Arms in Challenging Environments

November 17, 2021 · PickNik Robotics' MoveIt Studio software builds on its support of the open-source robot arm motion planning software to make it easier for users to remotely manage robot arms.

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Open-RMF Addresses Growing Robotics Interoperability Needs

October 27, 2021 · From simulation to management of robot fleets in heterogeneous environments, Open Robotics' Open-RMF is an open-source approach to interoperability that is different than other efforts.

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ROS Powered Race Cars Ready for Indy Autonomous Challenge

October 23, 2021 · ADLINK provides a peek under the hood at the university teams, corporate sponsors, and open-source technologies participating in the Indy Autonomous Challenge.

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