[Jack Qiao] wanted an autonomous robot that could be handy around an ever-changing shop. He didn’t want a robot he’d have to baby sit. If he said, ‘bring me the 100 ohm resistors’, it would go find ...

Shadow Robot Company has joined the ranks of Willow Garage, iRobot, and many other robot developers which have some of their hardware running the Robot Operating System (ROS). According to the ROS ...

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Microsoft is working on an "="" release="" of="" the="" robot="" operating="" system="" (ros)="" for="" windows"="">. Microsoft's goal with this move is to "bring the ...

When we think of robots and the inevitable uprising, images of pretty much everything Boston Dymanics has developed come to mind. The hardware side of things tend to dominate the discussion, but what ...

The new Jetson Orin Nano system-on-module is at the heart of NVIDIA’s Nova Orin. Version 2 of the Robot Operating System, which simplifies hardware acceleration, builds on the popularity and ...

Reinforcement learning is a subset of machine learning where the machine is scored on their performance (“evaluation function”). Over the course of a training session, behavior that improved final ...