Open-source software is giving rise to emerging breeds of quasi-commercial, prosthetic, and industrial robots. Robot Operating System (ROS) software — a suite of software libraries that help ...

If you are like us, you probably just spin up your own code for a lot of simple projects. But that’s wasteful if you are trying to do anything serious. Take a robot, for example. Are you using ROS ...

ROS2, cloud tools and AI coding are making robotics programming accessible to domain experts, not just specialists.

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When most people think about robotics, they think about large metal appendages coming together with swarms of wires to create a lanky, humanoid frame. What people don’t always realize is that making a ...

On a recent trip to the Bay Area, I took a few hours to pay a visit to Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (BAIR). Professor Ken Goldberg walked me around the lab and introduced me to a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Journalist, analyst, author, podcaster. Today you might own one robot. Maybe a Roomba, maybe a lawn-mowing robot, or maybe just a ...

Ever heard about the Robot Operating System? It’s a BSD-licensed open-source system for controlling robots, from a variety of hardware. Over the years we’ve shared quite a few projects that run ROS, ...

As workplace robots become more common in retail stores, hospitals, and warehouses, their human coworkers need to know how to use and reprogram them. Yet most people lack that kind of highly technical ...