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[Morpheus Chair] Move Robot Arm with MoveIt! | S4.Ep.4

by Miguel Angel | Jul 25, 2019 | Real Robots with ROS

In today's post, we are going to connect what we learned in the two previous posts, which are How to control a Robot Arm with ROS and Creating a MoveIt! Package with MoveIt! Setup Assistant. Please make sure you read those posts before following on this one since the...

Exploring ROS with a 2 wheeled robot #12 – Bug 2

by Marco Arruda | Jul 20, 2019 | Robotics with ROS, ROS Tutorials

Step 0 - Introduction Yes! We have skipped part number #11. That's because it was an adjustment from ROS Indigo to ROS Kinetic. It's not something necessary now, because we have already started using Kinetic. In this post, we implement Bug 2 algorithm in our existing...

ROS2 Tutorials #4: How to create a ROS2 Package for C++ [NEW]

by Alberto Ezquerro | Jul 19, 2019 | ROS2 Tutorials

About In this post, you will learn how to create a simple ROS2 package for C++. You don't need a ROS2 installation for this, as we will use the ROS Development Studio (ROSDS), an online platform that provides access to ROS (1 or 2) computers and other powerful ROS...

[Morpheus Chair] MoveIt! for your Robot Arm | S4.Ep.3

by Miguel Angel | Jul 19, 2019 | Real Robots with ROS

Following up our previous post about how to control a Robot Arm with ROS, today we are going to learn how to set up a MoveIt package for controlling the arm. Remember that if you are new to ROS, we recommend you taking the ROS Basics in 5 Days (Python) or ROS Basics...

Top 10 ROS Based Robotics Companies in 2019

by Ricardo Tellez | Jul 18, 2019 | Robotics with ROS

ROS is becoming the standard in robotics, not only for robotics research, but also for robotics companies that build and sell robots. In this article, I will offer a list of the top 10 worldwide robotics companies that base their robotics products on ROS. Criteria...