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Your first robot: Introduction to the Robot Operating System [2/5]
by Kyle Fazzari on 21 January 2018
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Your first robot: A beginner’s guide to ROS and Ubuntu Core [1/5]
by Kyle Fazzari on 19 December 2017
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Using snaps to advance robotics development
by Sarah Dickinson on 30 October 2017
Robotics development has seen great expansion in recent years. Some roboticists strongly believe that this expansion is not only due to the rise of...
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Robot development made easy with Husarion CORE2-ROS & Ubuntu – part 2
by Guest on 20 July 2017
This is the second post in a series of two by guest bloggers from Husarion; Domink Nowak and Michal Zieliński. The first blog can be read here. This blog...
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Robot development made easy with Husarion CORE2-ROS running Ubuntu
by Guest on 12 July 2017
This is the first in a series of two posts by guest blogger; Dominik Nowak, CEO at Husarion. We’ve seen many breakthroughs happening in the IT industry over...
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Ubuntu Core: Making a factory image with private snaps
by Kyle Fazzari on 11 July 2017
This is a follow-up to the ROS prototype to production on Ubuntu Core series to answer a question I received: “What if I want to make an image for the...
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The Turtlebot 3 has launched
by Kyle Fazzari on 31 May 2017
If you’re familiar with ROS (Robot Operating System), chances are you’re also familiar with the Turtlebot. The first version of the Turtlebot was created back...
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ROS production: create Ubuntu Core image with snap preinstalled [5/5]
by Kyle Fazzari on 9 May 2017
This is the fifth (and final) blog post in this series about ROS production. In the previous post we created a gadget snap to allow confined access to the...
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ROS production: obtaining confined access to the Turtlebot [4/5]
by Kyle Fazzari on 27 April 2017
This is the fourth blog post in this series about ROS production. In the previous post we created a snap of our prototype, and released it into the store. In...
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ROS production: our prototype as a snap [3/5]
by Kyle Fazzari on 21 April 2017
This is the third blog post in this series about ROS production. In the previous post we came up with a simple ROS prototype. In this post we’ll package that...
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ROS production: our prototype [2/5]
by Kyle Fazzari on 13 April 2017
This is the second blog post in this series about ROS production. In the previous post we discussed why Ubuntu Core was a good fit for production robotics. In...
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RobotCheers uses Ubuntu to create hospitality robots
by Canonical on 11 April 2017
Meet Spiro. Spiro greets you after a long day of travel, answers questions related to your stay and can give you a guided tour – in essence, all that a hotel...