FAULHABER’s MC 3001 B (foreground) and MC 3001 P (middle), shown with a matching motherboard from the starter kit in the background. | Photo Credit: FAULHABER The new MC 3001 are unhoused versions of the FAULHABER motion controllers and, by means of the integrated output stage with optimized current measurement, can control dc micromotors, linear […]

Autonomous vehicle developer Waymo raised more than $3 billion in 2020. Source: Waymo Waymo One, the fully autonomous driving ride hailing service, announced today that users in the Phoenix AZ area can now see Waymo One as an option when planning a trip in Google Maps. Until now, the service was only available via the […]

Canonical and Open Robotics announced a 10-year partnership around extended security maintenance (ESM) and enterprise support for the Robot Operating System (ROS). ROS support will be made available as an option to Ubuntu Advantage support customers. Open Robotics is the organization behind ROS. The post Open Robotics, Canonical harden ROS with 10-year support appeared first […]

Doosan Robotics, the South Korea-based developer of collaborative robotic arms, released open-source drivers compatible with ROS 2 Foxy Fitzroy. Foxy Fitzroy is the first ROS 2 release with a three-year, long-term support window. The post Doosan Robotics’ cobots compatible with ROS 2 Foxy Fitzroy appeared first on The Robot Report.

Nuro’s R2 will be delivering Domino’s pizzas to select customers in Houston. | Credit: Nuro Nuro, a 2020 RBR50 Innovation Award winner, is launching autonomous pizza delivery in Houston this week with Domino’s. Select customers who place an online order – on certain days and times – from the Domino’s in Woodland Heights can have […]

How impressed has Walmart been with its last-mile delivery tests with Cruise? So impressed that Walmart just invested in the San Francisco-based developer of autonomous vehicles. Walmart, and several institutional investors, added $750 million to Cruise’s recent funding round, extending it to $2.75 billion. In November 2020, Cruise and Walmart announced a self-driving delivery pilot […]

The KUKA iiQKA.OS is designed to simple and easy to use. | Image credit: KUKA Robotics KUKA Robotics introduced a new operating system for its collaborative and industrial robot arms at Hannover Messe 2021. The new KUKA iiQKA.OS operating system is designed to be “as easy to use as a cellphone”. The primary goal of […]

Cruise becomes the first AV to be permitted to operate in California. | Image credit: Cruise Cruise scored a huge win when it became the first “driverless” autonomous vehicle (AV) passenger service to be authorized to operate in California. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) authorized Cruise, LLC to participate in California’s first pilot program. […]

Deepmap builds high-definition maps for autonomous vehicles. | Image credit: Nvidia NVIDIA adds high-resolution mapping capabilities to its autonomous driving arsenal with the announcement this week of its intention to acquire DeepMap. DeepMap, founded in 2016, is a startup dedicated to building high-definition maps for autonomous vehicles to navigate the world safely. Chipmaker Nvidia deepens […]

Universal Robots (UR), PickNik, and Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI) released the beta version of the ROS 2 driver they’ve been working on for UR’s collaborative robot arms. The driver works across UR’s entire cobot line, including the newer e-Series cobots. The post Beta version of ROS 2 driver for UR cobots now available appeared first on […]