Our Complex Integrations team has iterated on a previous custom integration using our Warthog unmanned ground vehicle and OutdoorNAV autonomy software. While we retained many of the key features from the earlier design, the customer requested the robot to be water... read more
By far one of our favourite conferences to attend is the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. We were excited to be back in person in Philadelphia for ICRA 2022 last month after two years of remote attendance or cancellations. We enjoyed not only... read more
Creating a safe, dependable, and robust control methodology for AGV autonomous navigation in unknown cluttered environments has long been recognized as a significant challenge. Such a navigation task requires the AGV to navigate safely and autonomously, to avoid... read more
Next-generation robotics learning platform now available for order WATERLOO – May 4, 2022 – Clearpath Robotics, a manufacturer of mobile robotic platforms for research and development, and Open Robotics, primary maintainers of the Robot Operating System... read more
Humans of Clearpath: Spring 2022 Co-ops Another term has come to an end. Which means we have to say good bye to a group of talented students as they head back to school. We asked a few of our students to share their experiences, what they worked on and what advice... read more
With over a year since our 2020 PartnerBot grant program, we’ve been itching to catch up with our winners and their exciting research. We can’t wait to tell you about another adventure that brings us to a rarely traveled region of the world: Antarctica. The... read more
It has been an exciting month for the ROS community. We were thrilled to announce that ROS 2 is available on Husky UGV. We now have even more to share with the wider community, as we are pleased to announce that ROS Noetic is available on Husky UGV, Jackal UGV, Dingo,... read more
We are happy to announce that ROS 2 is now available on Husky UGV – and Jackal UGV isn’t far behind! ROS 2 aims to improve on ROS 1 in novel and exciting ways in order to better meet the needs of the ROS community. These novel use cases can range from multi-robot... read more
In our previous stories, we’ve often mentioned a core difficulty of robotics being accurate and consistent localization. Managing one robot through processes like SLAM can be difficult enough, but throw in a fleet of robots and the difficulty increases further.... read more
