by Manny Ojigbo | Jan 15, 2014 | Robot Forge |
We’re excited to announce that the one and only PR2 will be joining our botastic family here at Clearpath – what an honor! Willow Garage revolutionized mobile manipulation along with the Robot Operating System (ROS), when they released PR2 back in 2010. Now, as the...
by Mike Purvis | Oct 15, 2013 | Teaching and Learning |
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...
by Meghan Hennessey | Oct 15, 2013 | In the Field: Customer Spotlight |
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...
by Mike Purvis | Sep 17, 2013 | Teaching and Learning |
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...
by Meghan Hennessey | Sep 16, 2013 | Teaching and Learning |
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...
