In the rapidly evolving world of technology, LiDAR sensors have become indispensable tools for precision measurement and mapping across various industries. When integrated on an autonomous mobile robot, LiDAR sensors provide data, often in the form of 3D pointclouds,... read more
One of the questions we get asked the most by clients is what the differences are between different vision sensors. There are tried and true cameras like the options from Point Grey (Flea3 and Bumblebee) which have been long-time favourites of R&D groups for... read more
Not every artificial intelligence venture is a startup. In fact, there’s a sizeable community of established entrepreneurs that are well ahead of the AI game: Waterloo, Ont. It’s home to a burgeoning population of robotics/AI companies, many of which have... read more
Arguably the biggest tech buzz-word of the past couple years has been self-driving, and the way the market is ramping up, that trend isn’t going to subside for quite some time – if ever. From research across electrical and mechanical engineering, computer science and... read more
Sriram Narasimhan’s research team is shaking things up in the Civil Engineering Structures Lab at the University of Waterloo. The research, which is led by Ph.D Candidate Kevin Goorts, is developing a new mobile damping system for suppressing unwanted vibrations in... read more
A proud Clearpath tradition Clearpath HQ is always ablaze with a certain level of buzz, but no day seems to have more excitement in it than Hack Day. For our most recent Hack Day, teams were given 8 hours (1 work day) of dedicated time to plan and execute their... read more
The International Ground Vehicle Ground Competition (IGVC) is an annual event that brings together teams of college students from all over the globe to compete in an autonomous ground vehicle competition. Teams are tasked to design and construct a fully autonomous... read more
Written by Steffi Paepcke and originally posted on Open Source Robotics Foundation Blog on June 17, 2016. Clearpath Robotics is best known for building yellow and black robots that are the research platforms you’d build for yourself; that is, if it wasn’t much easier... read more
A light-weight 3D camera with ROS integration The RealSense R200 camera is a new 3D camera from Intel that packs three cameras – two IR cameras (left and right) and one RGB camera – into a small, light-weight form factor. With its relative low cost, high... read more