In the ever-evolving landscape of renewable energy, the efficiency and longevity of solar panel installations are crucial for maximizing their contribution to a sustainable future. Imagine robots navigating through expansive solar panel fields, equipped with advanced... 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
Last week was our first official “hardware hack day” at Clearpath, and what a day it was! We’ve done a few software hack days over the year, but we’re excited to share about this one in particular since hardware hack days are typically much harder to plan.... read more
Beginning about two years ago, ROS began the process of migrating its build system, which is an important infrastructure component. The original ROS build system was called rosbuild, and its replacement is catkin. Why the change? There are a variety of motivations... read more
It’s here! The OSR Foundation has announced the release of ROS Hydro Medusa – the 7th official release of ROS. All of our robots are compatible with ROS and, as you can imagine, we’re working hard at Clearpath to officially support this version – it will be... read more
