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 ...

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 ...

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“The aim of Intrinsic is to democratize the access to robotics,” Wendy Tan White, CEO of Intrinsic, told me at TechCrunch Disrupt last week, where she appeared alongside Brian Gerkey, director of Open ...

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 ...

NVIDIA and Open Robotics have entered into an agreement to boost ROS 2 performance on the NVIDIA Jetson edge AI platform and GPU-based systems. This will significantly improve the performance of ...

The ROBOTCORE™ hardware acceleration framework helps roboticists build “robot chips” and make robot computations faster, more deterministic and power efficient through FPGAs and GPUs. VITORIA-GASTEIZ, ...

This ROS 2 package provides drivers for the Blue Robotics Ping 1D altimeter and the Ping 360 scanning sonar. It includes nodes for interfacing with the hardware and visualizing the data. ping1d and ...

(Nanowerk News) The field of robotics has been evolving at the speed of light over the past half-century. Today, robots are firmly embedded in our daily reality. They can be found in plants, hospitals ...

NVIDIA and Open Robotics have entered into an agreement to accelerate ROS 2 performance on NVIDIA’s Jetson edge AI platform and GPU-based systems. These initiatives will reduce development time and ...