Katherine Scott 5/19/22 Katherine Scott 5/19/22

ROS 2 in Science Robotics

New ROS 2 Science Robotics paper features five case studies of ROS 2 users from industry.

Katherine Scott 5/4/22 Katherine Scott 5/4/22

Introducing the TurtleBot 4!

Open Robotics 4/6/22 Open Robotics 4/6/22

A new era for Gazebo

Open Robotics 3/22/22 Open Robotics 3/22/22

A Decade of Open Robotics

Open Robotics 3/8/22 Open Robotics 3/8/22

SubT Part 5: Results and the Future

This is the final post in our SubT series, in which we’ll cover the results and where SubT is going now that the competition is over.

Open Robotics 3/1/22 Open Robotics 3/1/22

SubT Part 4: Cloudsim

Welcome to the fourth article in our five part SubT series. Today we will be covering Cloudsim, the open source application developed at Open Robotics to run Ignition on cloud infrastructure.

Open Robotics 2/23/22 Open Robotics 2/23/22

SubT Part 3: Ignition

This is the third article in our five part SubT series. In this article I’ll talk about Ignition, which provided the simulation capabilities for SubT.

Open Robotics 2/16/22 Open Robotics 2/16/22

SubT Part 2: Robots and Environments

Welcome to the second article in our SubT series. In this post we’ll go over the different robots and environments developed for SubT.

Open Robotics 2/10/22 Open Robotics 2/10/22

SubT Part 1: Introduction

This is the first in a series of five blog posts about SubT from the perspective of Open Robotics. We’ll cover basics about the challenge, offer insights about how we established the competition infrastructure, describe new features developed for SubT, and add commentary to the final results.

Brian Gerkey 2/3/22 Brian Gerkey 2/3/22

ROS…in…space!

If you joined us for ROS World 2021 back in October, then you saw the excellent keynote presentation from Kim Hambuchen at NASA Johnson Space Center, in which she talked about many of the ways that NASA has benefitted from ROS. Inspired by Dr. Hambuchen's presentation, let's take a quick tour of ROS-based space applications.

Matthew Festo 1/27/22 Matthew Festo 1/27/22

Keeping the lights on

You know Open Robotics as a hub of the global robotics industry through our open software and hardware platforms for robotics. But many wonder how we operate and grow as a business. We do these things by offering a wide array of research, development, and consulting services to industry and government customers around the world. We design our customer engagements so that we can share key results in open source solutions for the benefit of the global robotics community.

Open Robotics 11/17/21 Open Robotics 11/17/21

ROS.org Refresh and New Video

After a decade we finally updated ros.org and made a new ROS explainer video.

Matthew Festo 10/27/21 Matthew Festo 10/27/21

A Common Language for Robot Interoperability

For over three years, we have been collaborating on the Open Robotics Middleware Framework (Open-RMF); a free, open source, modular software system that coordinates multiple fleets of indoor and outdoor robots and integrates them with elevators/lifts, doors and other infrastructure.

10/11/21 10/11/21

Ignition Fortress Released

The simulation team at Open Robotics is happy to announce another major release of Ignition, codenamed Edifice! This is the fifth major release of Ignition, following Dome, Citadel, Blueprint and Acropolis.