by Sabrina Guillen | Feb 26, 2021 | Blog, Robot Forge |
We are excited to be sharing with you a personal, one-on-one meeting with Dingo, our newest indoor robotic platform. Dingo is a light-weight, compact indoor mobile robot designed for robotics research and education. Available in two drive systems, differential and...
by Chris Bogdon | Sep 11, 2019 | Robot Forge |
Watch Nick Charron and Steven Philips, PhD candidates from the University of Waterloo, talk about their experience using the Kaarta Stencil 2 3D mobile mapping module for their infrastructure inspection robotics research. In this hands-on review video, they discuss...
by Chris Bogdon | Oct 11, 2018 | Robot Forge |
By Mokshith Voodarla, Josh Hejna, Anish Singhani, Rahul Amara, and originally posted on NVIDIA’s News Center. As robots become more integral throughout the world, delivering mail, food, and giving directions, they need to be able to easily navigate through...
by Tim Peckover | Jun 20, 2018 | Robot Forge |
For outdoor robotics, one of the key capabilities for autonomous use-cases is GPS Waypoint Navigation. If you’re unfamiliar with the term, GPS Waypoint Navigation is the ability to provide a robot with a set of GPS waypoints (i.e., a set of latitude / longitude...
by Tim Peckover | Jun 5, 2018 | Robot Forge, Teaching and Learning |
One of the most common things to do with a new robot is enable autonomy, or at least get started on it with Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). For years, the easiest way to do this in ROS has been to utilize the open source Gmapping package, a ROS wrapper...
by Tim Peckover | Apr 25, 2018 | Robot Forge, Teaching and Learning |
Any quick search online for computing platforms for artificial intelligence or machine learning, and especially embedded modules, will lead you directly to the Jetson line from NVIDIA. Described as “AI supercomputers the size of a credit card,” these modules are the...