ROS

Your first robot: The driver [4/5]

by Kyle Fazzari on 9 March 2018

Your first robot: The controller [3/5]

by Kyle Fazzari on 11 February 2018

Your first robot: Introduction to the Robot Operating System [2/5]

by Kyle Fazzari on 21 January 2018

Your first robot: A beginner’s guide to ROS and Ubuntu Core [1/5]

by Kyle Fazzari on 19 December 2017

From ROS prototype to production on Ubuntu Core

by Kyle Fazzari on 6 April 2017

Please note that this blog post has outdated technical information that may no longer be correct. For latest updated documentation about robotics in Canonical...

Distributing a ROS system among multiple snaps

by Kyle Fazzari on 22 March 2017

One of the key tenets of snaps is that they bundle their dependencies. The fact that they’re self-contained helps their transactional-ness: upgrading or...

ROS on arm64 with Ubuntu Core

by Kyle Fazzari on 27 January 2017

Previous Robot Operating System (ROS) releases only supported i386, amd64, and armhf. I even tried building ROS Indigo from source for arm64 about a year ago,...

Welcoming the Parrot S.L.A.M.dunk: the new drone development kit

by Thibaut Rouffineau on 7 September 2016

Parrot collaborates with Canonical to launch the Parrot S.L.A.M.dunk, a new development kit for the creation of autonomous and obstacle avoidance drones and...

Canonical launches new ‘#InternetOfToys’ initiative with partners

by Maarten Ectors on 2 October 2015

The App-Enabled Spider

by Maarten Ectors on 8 September 2015

This is a guest post by the Erle-Robotics team as part of “the startup stories”, a series of blog posts about how and why innovative companies are using...

The first app-enabled spider

by Maarten Ectors on 5 August 2015

If you are into robot spiders then the erle-spider is something to look forward to. It will be the first app-enabled Snappy Ubuntu Core and ROS powered robot...