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Aug 21, 2013 “Majority of Willow Garage Employees Move to Suitable Technologies”
11 years
Suitable Technologies, the Willow Garage spinout that created the Beam remote presence system, announced today that it has “retained a majority of employees from Willow Garage.” A press release sent out this morning and also posted on Willow Garage’s blog says Suitable will “use the combined resources to further product development, sales, and customer support.”
May 13, 2013 “ROS Industrial celebrates one-year anniversary”
12 years
ROS-I is developing and promoting a manufacturer-independent open-source library of drivers and the transfer of established components from research to industry – not just h/w interfaces and MS, IOS and Android support, but legal and standardization issues as well.
April 25, 2013 “Rethink Robotics Launches New Generation of Humanoid Robots”
12 years
Rethink Robotics today announced the launch of the Baxter Research Robot, a humanoid robot with two arms powered by a revolutionary new Software Development Kit (SDK) that will allow researchers to create a wide array of custom applications for robots. The Baxter Research Robot runs on ROS, the global Robot Operating System standard, which gives researchers the ability to share innovations and build on each other’s work and know-how.
April 18, 2013 “TurtleBot 2 Tutorial: Installing Ubuntu Linux”
12 years
TurtleBot 2 Tutorial: Installing Ubuntu Linux
March 18, 2013 “Learn How to Program a TurtleBot and Use ROS”
12 years
Post about TurtleBot tutorial series. Check back every week for new posts.
February 11, 2013 “Willow Garage Changes Direction”
12 years
Willow Garage announced today that they are changing direction and deciding to focus on additional commercial opportunities that can become self-supporting.
January 7, 2013 “ROS Groovy Galapagos Released”
12 years
The latest release of the popular robot operating system ROS, nicknamed Groovy Galapagos, was released on 31 December. The Groovy release includes a lot of changes to the core infrastructure aimed at making ROS easier to use, more modular, and more scalable. Portability has also been improved with support for most GNU/Linux distros, Android, and even some proprietary operating systems such as Mac OS X and Windows.
December 8, 2012 “SwRI and ROS-Industrial making progress on 5th anniversary of ROS”
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In 2011, Motoman USA partnered with SwRI (Southwest Research Institute) to enable ROS software to be available to Motoman users. “The next step for industrial robotics is to be more sensor aware; to be able to accomodate the many new capabilities showing up in the service sector. It’s clear that ROS is able to handle all of these,” said Erik Nieves, Technology Director for Yaskawa America’s Motoman Robotics Division.
From that venture came the SwRI-led ROS-Industrial Consortium (2012), dedicated to providing a common interoperable software language for existing industrial hardware. Last month, Fraunhofer IPA became the ROS-I organizer for the EU.
August 31, 2012 “Willow Garage Researcher Wins Prestigious Award”
12 years
Willow Garage’s Dr. Leila Takayama been named to MIT Technology Review’s TR35 Listing of the World’s Top Young Innovators for 2012. The TR35 recognizes the world’s top innovators under the age of 35, spanning energy, medicine, computing, communications, nanotechnology, and other emerging fields. Proving that innovation and creativity go hand in hand, this award follows up Dr. Takayama’s earlier recognition by Fast Company magazine as one of The 100 Most Creative People in Business 2012.
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July 20, 2012 – “Motion Planning Improvements Made For ROS”
12 years
While working as research engineer at Willow Garage, Ken Anderson improved upon motion planning by developing a more fluid and more efficient way for robots to move using the ROS operating system. The developments represent an improvement for arm navigation applications for robot arms and other robotic components.
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