Robotics

Whether you’re starting in the lab or already in production, Canonical can help manage the complexity of the open-source software underpinning your robot’s brains and personality.

Simulate the TurtleBot3

Interested in getting started in robotics? There’s no need to purchase expensive hardware before you try some things out: simulate a TurtleBot3 instead! The...

ROS Security Benchmark open for public comment

We’re pleased to announce that the Center for Internet Security (CIS) has publicly released the ROS Security Benchmark for community discussion. When...

Robotics Recap: Learning, Programming & Snapping ROS 2

Robotics@Canonical puts a strong focus on the migration from ROS to ROS 2. ROS 2 benefits from many improvements, especially robot security. Our goal is to...

The State of Robotics – June 2020

ROS, Ripple and reflections – In this month’s edition of The State of Robotics, we’ll tell you about the recently discovered Ripple vulnerability, the latest...

Feeling at home in a LXD container

In this post, we will see how we can containerize our home in LXD simply managing our personal configuration files – a.k.a. dotfiles. Yeah dotfiles, named...

Installing ROS in LXD Containers

It’s the season for updates. The last few weeks have ushered in ROS 1 Noetic and ROS 2 Foxy, both of which target the recently released Ubuntu 20.04 Focal...

Ubuntu Masters 3: the community expands

What is Ubuntu Masters? The Ubuntu Masters conference stemmed from a vision to bring the engineering community together to freely exchange innovative ideas,...

ROS 2 Foxy Fitzroy and its Enhanced Security Monitoring

We’re pleased to welcome the newest ROS 2 release, Foxy Fitzroy. A long-term support (LTS) release, (supported for three years), Foxy runs on the latest...

The State of Robotics – May 2020

With several countries finally emerging from lockdowns and markets showing signs of economic recovery, we’ve seen the newscycle steadily shift its focus away...

How to set up TurtleBot3 in minutes with snaps (2/2)

Welcome to part two of our TurtleBot3 set up, namely the turtlebot3c project. In part one, we rearranged the launch files and configuration files of the...

The State of Robotics – April 2020

*Information and resources around robotics during the COVID-19 pandemic can be found at the end of this article.* So, we’ve passed the first quarter of 2020....

How to set up TurtleBot3 in minutes with snaps (1/2)

If you are a regular reader of our blog, you already know that our team got its hands on some TurtleBot3 robots. In previous posts, we have seen how to build...

Go for ROS

If you started reading this post thinking I would explain why you should go for ROS when building robots, think again. To be fair, that topic deserves a post...

You are invited to the virtual Ubuntu Masters event

The Ubuntu Masters Conference is a platform for IT practitioners to share how they are solving industry-wide challenges with the global engineering community....

Robotics pages on Ubuntu: bridging the gap

Today, 10/04/2020, new robotics pages went live on ubuntu.com. We want to show our involvement, our stance and our support for ROS and robotics. These three...

The State of Robotics – March 2020

Damn it March. 2020 was doing so well. The biggest news last month was the dramatic escalation of COVID-19. We won’t go into any detail, I’m sure you’re...