by Meghan Hennessey | Jun 13, 2014 | Robot Forge |
Happy Birthday Clearpath!! We are officially 5 years old and what better way to celebrate than let all of our fans drive a robot. No matter where you are in the world, you can experience what it’s like to drive Husky – well, a very mini, hacked-together Husky...
by Meghan Hennessey | Jun 12, 2014 | Culture & Community |
The Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition is held every year for robotics teams to design and build autonomous – wait for it – ground vehicles, capable of completing a variety of challenges. Each summer some of the best university teams around the globe flock to...
by Evan Ackerman | May 14, 2014 | Robot Forge |
Reposted with permission from IEEE Spectrum. Original post available here. No matter how much time and energy and money we put into a robot, it’s going to be a very very very long time before we come up with anything that’s anywhere close to as capable as...
by Ilia Baranov | Mar 21, 2014 | Teaching and Learning |
In the previous ROS 101 post, we showed how easy it is to get ROS going inside a virtual machine, publish topics and subscribe to them. If you haven’t had a chance to check the previous post out, you may want to do so before we go on. In this post, we’re...
by Meghan Hennessey | Feb 25, 2014 | In the Field: Customer Spotlight, Tradeshows & Conferences |
The Fukushima disaster was tragic, yet motivating. It catapulted the robotics world into disaster-response scenarios and ignited a sense of urgency to create autonomous, intelligent systems for rugged, hazardous environments. Spinning from this new found inspiration...