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 ...

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 ...

This video is part of TechXchange: ROS: Robot Operating System This is a presentation and short overview of some ROS 2 courseware that's useful in learning about the open-source, Robot Operating ...

Now it's time to attempt to built a robot from scratch and understand how ROS hangs together and which components we need to implement it all from scratch. I'm using my NERF Blaster Robot chassis to ...

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 ...