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[ROS Q&A] 109 – How to create a custom ROS service message. BB-8 Gazebo Simulator

by Ricardo Tellez | Mar 15, 2018 | ROS Q&A

This video shows step by step how to build your own custom ROS service message, and how to use it in your own service. For this example we will create a service that measures the amount of distance that the BB8 robot has moved. The service that we will provide...

RDP 008: Building Accessible ROSbots With Jack Pien

by Ricardo Tellez | Mar 12, 2018 | ROS Developers Podcast

In this episode, Jack Pien will talk about how to use accessible robots based on ROS and OpenCV to learn robotics. Those robots are called ROSbots and Jack is the creator of them. ROSbots come with ROS and OpenCV installed on a Raspberry Pi onboard the robot, ready...

[ROS Q&A] 108 – Visualize inflation layer in RViz

by Alberto Ezquerro | Mar 8, 2018 | ROS Q&A

In this video, we show how to visualize the inflation layer in RViz for ROS (Robot Operating System) Navigation. https://youtu.be/XZOuFMpk5Hg Step 1. Create a project in ROS Development Studio(ROSDS) ROSDS helps you follow our tutorial in a fast pace without...

2018 Robotics Events&Conferences Guide

by Yuhong Lin | Mar 6, 2018 | ROS News

To learn more and register for the above robotics events, please visit the following link: RobotSoft 2018: The first IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (April 24 - 28, 2018) SIMPAR...

RDP 007: Making Aibo Walk Again With ROS With Cecilio Angulo

by Ricardo Tellez | Mar 5, 2018 | ROS Developers Podcast

In this session of The ROS Developers Podcast, I chat with Cecilio Angulo, associate professor at Technical University of Catalonia and director of the Intelligent Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Research Center. We will talk about a project he started to...