WATERLOO – March 14, 2023 – Clearpath Robotics, a manufacturer of mobile robotics platforms for research and development, today announced Husky Observer™, a fully integrated system designed to accelerate inspection solutions. This new configuration of the Husky... read more
It’s the gathering place for leading robotics researchers. It’s the breeding ground for next-gen robotics innovations. It’s the one place on this planet that you will see seven ALTAS robots in one location running a course. It’s the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC)... read more
We’ve just shipped off another pack of Grizzly’s to some leading edge roboticists and we can’t wait to learn what they do with it! But first, they’ll have to open the crate to release the beast before driving forward with their field research. It’s a fairly simple... read more
NOTE: As of May 2016, this tutorial is out-of-date. Click here to view an up-to-date version of this tutorial. All our ROS, PR2 and Clearpath Robot tutorials are available on our Knowledge Base. Before getting started, we recommend to either complete or review the... read more
The University of Toronto’s Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) and York University served as the gathering spot this past April for the NSERC Canadian Field Robotics Network (NCFRN). The event united leading-edge Canadian robotics contributors from academic,... read more
The beginnings of the ROS packages for Husky were created almost three years ago. The first debs were released in August 2011, for ROS Electric. Since then, we’ve released debs into Fuerte and Groovy, and we’ve shipped many, many Husky units out to... read more
Calling all extra-terrestrial tele-operation stereo-visual nerds! Here’s one you’ll love… We sat down with Dr. Geovanni Martinez, a staple figure at the University of Costa Rica’s (UCR) Image Processing and Computer Vision Research Laboratory (IPCS-Lab). Dr. Martinez... read more
As mentioned in Part 1, grant applications often play a critical role in securing funding to further robotics research, but they’re not always the most convenience things to write. So our grant writing specialists have put the top 10 tips of grant writing... read more
Robotics research wouldn’t be where it is today without funding programs and grants that make the progress possible. To help you with your next grant application, we’ve put a 2-part series blog post together to outline top tips and reminders. At the bottom... read more