Delft University of Technology Advances Compliance Behaviour with Dingo-O Mobile Manipulator
The integration of robots in human-centered environments is becoming increasingly prevalent. With this transition, mobile manipulation and compliant control has become essential. This is particularly crucial for ensuring robust performance coupled with safety in... read more
3D LIDAR: True 3D Sensing and Spinning 2D Alternatives
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
Deployable, Autonomous Vibration Control of Bridges Using Husky UGV
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![[Video] Inside Hack Day at Clearpath](https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.clearpathrobotics.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/12130107/hackday3-400x250.jpg)
[Video] Inside Hack Day at Clearpath
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
Interview: IGVC Winner on “Bigfoot 2” Husky UGV
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
Video: Working with the Robot Localization Package
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
Mapping and Navigating with an Intel RealSense R200 Camera
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
From Books to Bots: 2016 Winter Term Co-op
The 2016 Winter Term has come to an end and our co-op students are back in class. Here are some of their successes and a first-hand look of their work term experience.
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