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Blog posts tagged
"robotics"

Jeremie Deray
5 August 2022

How to build a snap using ROS 2 Humble

Robotics Article

We’ve recently celebrated the release of ROS 2 Humble Hawksbill with a post detailing how to get started developing for the new release in containers. In addition, we shared an overview of the new features included with this new release, particularly its enhanced security features. This week we are tackling the logical next step in ...

gbeuzeboc
20 July 2022

How to use ROS 2 shared memory in snaps

Robotics Article

If you already tried to package ROS 2 Foxy applications into snaps, you might have encountered the following error regarding shared memory: This log is stating that FastDDS (formerly known as FastRTPS) couldn’t create a file for the shared memory mechanism due to denied permission. Fortunately, FastDDS is smart enough to fallback to a non ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
11 July 2022

Installing Foxglove Studio is now easier than ever

Robotics Article

Today, Foxglove announced the release of the Foxglove Studio snap. Foxglove Studio helps you experience the world as a robot does, providing a rich set of features to visualise data. By diversifying its distribution with a snap, Foxglove Studio is now available to millions of Linux users that can install this open-source tool with a ...

gbeuzeboc
8 July 2022

Install Gazebo for ROS 2 in under a minute

Robotics Article

Recently, we announced the beta release of the Gazebo snap to help you install Gazebo for ROS 2. The gazebo snap is easy to install on dozens of Linux distributions and comes bundled with all the dependencies and the ROS 2 integration. It currently supports Gazebo Citadel and thus ROS 2 Foxy. For the sake ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
4 July 2022

The State of Robotics – May & June 2022

Robotics Article

In May, robotics felt the waves of the Hawksbill and Jellyfish. Last month brought us the first LTS for ROS 2, Humble Hawksbill. As part of the ROS community, we welcome this new release and congratulate everyone who made it possible. In this round-up, we will talk about ROS, drones, football and robots that eat ...

Edoardo Barbieri
8 June 2022

An intro to real-time Linux with Ubuntu

Internet of Things Article

A real-time system responds to events within a specified deadline. If the timing constraints of the system are unmet, failure has occurred. In the kernel context, real-time denotes a deterministic response to an external event, aiming to minimize the response time guarantee. Real-time Beta now available in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS  Last April, Ca ...

Florencia Cabral Berenfus
25 May 2022

ROS 2 Humble security, a tour of the new and improved features

Robotics Article

We’re excited about the recent release of ROS 2 Humble Hawksbill, a Long Term Support (LTS) distro, supported for the next five years. ROS 2 releases come out on every even-numbered year together with the LTS release of Ubuntu, this time with Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish).  Earlier this week, we shared a step-by-step guide to ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
23 May 2022

Install ROS 2 Humble in Ubuntu 20.04 or 18.04 using LXD containers

Robotics Article

We welcome the new release of ROS 2 Humble which targets the recently released Ubuntu 22.04. If you want to install it now, please visit the ROS 2 Humble documentation. But if you want to install ROS 2 Humble and test compatibility, keeping your current Ubuntu (20.04, 18.04,…) environment stable until you know you are ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
20 May 2022

How to raise funding for your robotics venture | Chapter 2 – Akara

Robotics Article

Robotics ventures are different. They face different technical challenges in design, testing and deployment. This has an implication for everything, including funding. It’s not the same to raise funding for the next mobile app or IoT device, as for the next assistive robot. Investors and developers alike know about the risks: Hardware and ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
17 May 2022

Kria KR260 – a scalable robotics platform powered with Ubuntu

Internet of Things Article

Today, robotics developers have something to look forward to with the release of AMD Kria™ KR260 Robotics Starter Kit. Robotics is a challenging endeavour. By reducing the barriers to entry on embedding design, AMD aims to accelerate robotics innovations in every industry. The latest addition to the Kria portfolio of adaptive system-on-mo ...

julie-chevrier
6 May 2022

Let’s meet at Hannover Messe 2022

Ubuntu Article

Hannover Messe, one of the world’s largest trade fairs, dedicated to the industrial sectors (drive engineering, automation, robotics, R&D and industrial IT), will be held in Hannover, Germany from May 30th to June 2nd 2022. Come join us at Hall 5, Booth B51/1, where we will discuss all things IoT and embedded and introduce you ...

Edoardo Barbieri
27 April 2022

Real-time Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Beta – Now Available

Internet of Things Article

On 21 April 2022, Canonical announced Real-time Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, available in beta.  Based on upstream v5.15, the 22.04 LTS kernel integrates the out-of-tree PREEMPT_RT patch for x86_64 and AArch64 architectures. Once in GA, the new real-time kernel will power the next generation of robotics, IoT, and telco innovations by providing a det ...

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