Interview: The team behind the apple harvesting robot
Source: Clearpath Robotics By: Chris Bogdon Amir Degani is an assistant professor at Technion Institute of Technology and Avi Kahnani is the CEO and Co-Founder of Israeli robotics start-up Fresh Fruits...
View Article5 innovation challenges in materials transport
by: Meghan Hennessey Walk into any manufacturing facility today. Forklifts and AGVs may be in operation serving specific parts of the manufacturing floor, but you’ll also see hundreds of people at...
View Article4 reasons why Industry 4.0 will leave AGVs behind
AGV in warehouse. Source: Wikipedia Commons By Paula de Villavicencio Technology has been in development for the last decade and has now come to fruition in the form of self-driving vehicles. These...
View ArticleInterview: International Ground Vehicle Ground Competition (IGVC) winner on...
Photo credit: Lawrence Tech University IGVC Facebook By: Chris Bogdon The International Ground Vehicle Ground Competition (IGVC) is an annual event that brings together teams of college students from...
View ArticleClearpath Robotics launches “Warthog UGV”, the amphibious robot
Clearpath Robotics, a leading provider of mobile robotic platforms for research and development, has partnered with ARGO XTR to release Warthog – a large, amphibious, all-terrain mobile robot designed...
View ArticleCustomer story: Deployable, autonomous vibration control of bridges using...
Image: Clearpath Sriram Narasimhan’s research team are shaking things up in the Civil Engineering Structures Lab at the University of Waterloo. The research, which is led by Ph.D Candidate Kevin...
View ArticleRapid outdoor/indoor 3D mapping with a Husky UGV
by Nicholas Charron The need for fast, accurate 3D mapping solutions has quickly become a reality for many industries wanting to adopt new technologies in AI and automation. New applications requiring...
View ArticleROS 101: Drive a Husky!
In the previous ROS 101 post, we showed how easy it is to get ROS going inside a virtual machine, publish topics and subscribe to them. If you haven’t had a chance to check the out all the previous...
View ArticleTweet to drive a robot!
Happy Birthday!! Clearpath is officially 5 years old and what better way to celebrate than let all of our fans drive a robot. No matter where you are in the world, you can experience what it’s like to...
View ArticleROS 101: Drive a Grizzly!
So you have had a taste of driving a virtual Husky in our previous tutorial, but now want to try something a little bigger? How about 2000 lbs bigger? Read on to learn how to drive a (virtual)...
View ArticleGrizzly on the Mars Emulation Terrain at NCFRN
by Ryan Gariepy I recently spent over a week in Montreal talking with – and learning from – the Canadian field robotics community, first at the Computer and Robot Vision (CRV) conference and then at...
View ArticleClearpath introduces Jackal, their new unmanned ground vehicle
We’ve been keeping a huge secret and now we’re ready to share it… Earlier this year, Army Research Labs (ARL) contracted us to design an affordable, portable research platform for outdoor use. Working...
View ArticleROS 101: Creating a publisher node
By Martin Cote In our previous post, we graduated from driving a Husky to taking on a Grizzly! Now it’s time to get down and dirty with what ROS is really made of: nodes! We will first be creating a...
View ArticleBuilding a robotics company
By Ryan Gariepy As we’ve made more of a name for ourselves within various startup communities, we’re commonly asked how we moved from our beginnings with little resources and no connections to a...
View ArticleNERVE Center: The robot playground
Jackal on the water ramp at the University of Massachusetts Lowell NERVE Center in Boston. By Meghan Hennessey What’s the NERVE Center, you ask? It’s the robot testing facility at the University of...
View ArticleROS101: Creating a subscriber using GitHub
By Martin Cote We previously learned how to write a publisher node to move Husky randomly. BUT: what good is publishing all these messages if no one is there to read it? In this tutorial we’ll write a...
View ArticleDo more with Udev
By Paul Bovbel Udev is a device manager for Linux that dynamically creates and removes nodes for hardware devices. In short, it helps your computer find your robot easily. By default, hardware devices...
View ArticleROS, Arduino, and a Husky simulation
By Martin Cote The Arduino family of micro controllers has quickly become a go-to board for hobbyists due to its ease of use. Often times roboticists must create communication protocols to allow their...
View ArticleROS101: Creating your own RQT Dashboard
By Martin Cote After working in the terminal, gazebo and RViz, it’s time for a change of pace. For this ROS101 tutorial we’ll be detailing the basics of creating your own rqt dashboard! A dashboard is...
View ArticleMATLAB Robotics System Toolbox and ROS
By Ilia Baranov Recently, Mathworks released a new toolbox for Matlab. This is exciting for a number of reasons: it includes everything from data analysis to coordination of multiple robots. In...
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