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AgileX mobile robots: suited to many industries The AgileX series of mobile industrial robots can be customised and offers different levels of performance. From the fast and agile Scout Mini to the more robust all-terrain Hunter, AgileX covers a wide spectrum of requirements. These mobile robots are suitable for use in education, research and industry.[…]
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Robotis OP3: a highly versatile medium-sized humanoid robot Robotis OP3 is a reasonably priced, ROS-compatible humanoid robot equipped with a more powerful computer than many of its competitors. Presentation of Robotis OP3 The Robotis OP3 humanoid robot, with its embedded Intel NUC PC, is the most recent addition to the DARwIn series of humanoid robots[…]
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The first part of this article is an overview of the ROS midleware, in th esecond part, we’ll go more in depth in the new ROS version: ROS2. Keep in mind that ROS2 is currently on heavy development, some packages have already been released but most of them are not ready to use. Besides, some[…]
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Robot arms that Génération Robots distribute are aimed at laboratories, R&D units, universities. We are providing in this post a comparison table between our four large size, ROS compatible, robot arms (6 and 7 DoF). Which applications for robot arms in the research field? In a laboratory or in a R&D unit, robot arms are[…]
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Read our other blog posts from our “LiDAR technology” serie LiDAR integration with ROS: quickstart guide and projects ideas In this post, you will learn how to connect and integrate your LiDAR with your PC or embedded system using ROS middleware on Ubuntu. We will also talk about data fusion (widely used in[…]
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Introduction – Turtlebot tutorial step by step In this tutorial we will use the inertial measurement unit of a standard Android phone to control a ROS compatible robot. We have chosen a classical ROS robot, the Turtlebot3 Burger, to be our test platform. Requirements: Android phone Any ROS compatible robot – In our tutorial we[…]
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What can I use the Adept AmigoBot robot for? The AmigoBot mobile robot was intended for research and education. Designed by Adept, AmigoBot is their smallest research and education robot. Both strong and powerful, it really was imagined from a classroom and university lab perspective. Weighing just 3.6 kg, you’ll find it very easy to[…]
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The wait is over. Rethink Robotics introduced last week Sawyer for the Research and Education markets. Equipped with both the ROS system and a SDK (Software Development Kit), Sawyer for research and education will pave the way to innovations in fields like machine learning, human-robot interaction, mechatronics and grasping, machine vision and manufacturing skills. Sawyer[…]
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What is ROS? ROS in a nutshell… As the full name of Robot Operating System suggests, ROS is an operating system for robots. In the same way as operating systems for PCs, servers or standalone devices, ROS is a full operating system for service robotics. ROS is in fact a meta-operating system, something between an[…]
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Cognex In-Sight and Siemens S7 PLC Modbus Ros package and tutorial The modbus stack provided by Génération Robots team of engineers offers a wrapper from the modbus communication to standardized ROS messages. The modbus package is based on pymodbus and is also written in Python. This package was used in an industrial quality inspection project[…]
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